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Oechler, Christopher C. – Hispania, 2021
On the eighth of October, 1622, Lope de Vega finished "La nueva victoria de don Gonzalo de Córdoba." This "comedia" recounts a Spanish victory in the Battle of Fleurus, one of several military triumphs that encouraged hope and excitement during the early years of Philip IV's reign. The battle had occurred in late August of…
Descriptors: History, Spanish Literature, War, Drama
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Hansen, David T. – Educational Theory, 2018
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695) is a legend in her native Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America. She is esteemed for the artistic and intellectual quality of her wide-ranging poetry, plays, and prose writings. She is renowned for her defense of the right of women to study, to publish their scholarship, and to teach, all controversial claims…
Descriptors: Mexicans, Poetry, Spanish Literature, Drama
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Ruiz, Eduardo – Hispania, 2014
Cervantes's "novela" creates a complex protagonist due in part to the involvement of the slaves' destructive and creative energies: a linguistic and erotic paradox. Linguistically the female slave foregrounds the historical dichotomy between "ladinos" and "bozales" and the related problematic of conversion,…
Descriptors: Authors, Slavery, Spanish Literature, Novels
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Bartlett, Linda; Manyé, Lourdes – Hispania, 2015
The long-running Spanish television program "Cuéntame cómo pasó" represents not only a wildly successful series for Radio Televisión Española, but also an excellent example of the project of historical memory. Premiering in 2001 (but set, in the first season, in 1968), the story of the multigenerational Alcántara family forms a…
Descriptors: Spanish, Social Change, Democracy, Foreign Countries
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Goldberg, Nancy Sloan – Hispania, 2014
Ventura García Calderón (1886-1959) was a Peruvian man of letters and a diplomat who was at the center of the hispanophone community in Paris in the first half of the twentieth century. Known as a proponent of Spanish American literature, García Calderón achieved a global celebrity for his dramatic, colorful, and ironic short stories. These…
Descriptors: Authors, French, Spanish, Spanish Literature
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Gomez, Juan Manuel – Hispania, 2011
"La gran Cenobia" deals with the war between Queen Zenobia of Palmyra and the Emperor Aurelian. Calderon de la Barca draws most of his information from historical sources; the dramatist, however, changes history and adapts it to his own dramatic purpose. The theme of Fortune gives unity to the play. Aureliano is portrayed as a tyrant who, to prove…
Descriptors: Drama, History, Authors, Spanish Literature
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Patterson, Charles – Hispania, 2013
Much of the limited scholarship dedicated to Sor Juana's "autos sacramentales" tends to separate them from the "loas" that were meant to introduce them. Critics often exalt the "loas" for the sympathy that they express for indigenous beliefs, while neglecting the "autos" or viewing them as masterful…
Descriptors: Authors, Spanish Literature, Spanish, Literary Devices
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Parker, Jason Thomas – Hispania, 2011
This essay seeks to provide parallel and interchangeable approaches to teaching Ramon del Valle-Inclan's challenging play "Luces de bohemia". A greater understanding of the cultural and mental frameworks of the early twentieth-century Spanish spectator will permit students to penetrate the dense intertextuality that characterizes Valle's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Drama, Spanish Literature
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Glenn, Kathleen – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1973
Discussion of Goytisolo's novel, "Duelo en el paraiso," a study of the effect of the Spanish Civil War on three generations. (RL)
Descriptors: History, Novels, Revolution, Spanish
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Adams, Kenneth – Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 1972
Descriptors: Characterization, Epics, History, Medieval Literature
Armand, Octavio – Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, 1972
Descriptors: Epics, Formal Criticism, History, Medieval Literature
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Llorens, Vicente – Revista de Occidente, 1973
Descriptors: Christianity, Culture, History, Islamic Culture
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Peyton, Myron A. – Hispania, 1973
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, History, Impressionistic Criticism
Vila Selma, Jose – Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, 1973
Descriptors: History, Imagery, Motifs, Poetry
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Pi-Sunyer, Oriol – Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 1972
Descriptors: Anthropology, Culture, Historical Criticism, History
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