Literature, Spanish & Spanish American



link to catalog page RAMON Y CAJAL, Vacation Stories

Vacation Stories

Five Science Fiction Tales

Author: Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2006

Written by Nobel Prize-winning Ramón y Cajal and translated into English for the first time by MacArthur Fellow Laura Otis, these five ingenious, early science fiction tales take a politically subversive and wickedly microscopic look at the nature, allure, and danger of scientific curiosity. (Think Jules Verne!)   learn more...

link to catalog page ZUBIRI, Dynamic Structure of Reality Author: Xavier Zubiri
Pub Date: July 2003

First English translation Spanish philosopher Zubiri’s estructura dinámica de la realidad.   learn more...

link to catalog page FUCHS, Passing for Spain

Passing for Spain

Cervantes and the Fictions of Identity

Author: Barbara Fuchs
Pub Date: January 2003

Cervantes challenges the state’s attempt to categorize its subjects by presenting characters who pass for another gender, nationality, or religion.   learn more...

link to catalog page VIVES, The Instruction of a Christen Woman Author: Juan Luis Vives
Pub Date: May 2002

The first and only transcription of the complete English translation of this famous book, the most influential book in Tudor England concerning women and their “proper” behavior.   learn more...

link to catalog page GEIST, They Still Draw Pictures

They Still Draw Pictures

Children's Art in Wartime from the Spanish Civil War to Kosovo

Author: Anthony L. Geist and Peter N. Carroll
Pub Date: 2002

A heart-wrenching, yet enlightening collections of children’s drawings forged in the fires of war   learn more...

link to catalog page ORTEGA Y GASSET, Toward a Philosophy of History Author: José Ortega y Gasset
Pub Date: 2002

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link to catalog page STURMAN, Zarzuela

Zarzuela

Spanish Operetta, American Stage

Author: Janet L. Sturman
Pub Date: October 2000

The first book on this re-emerging Hispanic art-form, bridging classical and popular music, traces the Zarzuela from its beginnings in 17th century Spain to its burgeoning new awareness via the Internet and its role in defining American urban ethnicity.   learn more...