Speak and Act: Beginning Chinese (Volume 2) Textbook and Workbook Meiqing Sun. Ph.D. Senior Lecturer of Chinese Studies (Maiheng S. Dietrich, Meiqing Sun, Karina H. Chen) Speak and Act: Beginning Chinese (I & II) is a basic textbook for learners who have never learned Chinese before. The teaching goal is… Continue reading…
Signs of Power in Habsburg Spain and the New World explores the representation of political, economic, military, religious, and juridical power in texts and artifacts from early modern Spain and her American viceroyalties. In addition to analyzing the dynamics of power in written texts, chapters also examine pieces of material culture… Continue reading…
En el presente libro se pueden encontrar editadas por primera vez las “comedias con música” de Las amazonas de España (1720) y La hazaña mayor de Alcides (1723), de José de Cañizares, así como también las piezas breves que acompañaron a estas representaciones en el Coliseo del Buen Retiro. En el caso del festejo… Continue reading…
In 1526 Emperor Charles V arranged the wedding of Ferdinand of Aragon, the dethroned heir of Naples, to Germana de Foix, the widow of Ferdinand the Catholic, and appointed them viceroys of Valencia. In the decade that followed, these two royal personas invited some of the best poets and musicians… Continue reading…
This book proposes community service-learning as a critical pedagogy that connects learners and communities to address key challenges in heritage language education. The book’s purpose is two-fold: to fill a crucial gap in empirical research on community service-learning in the heritage language context, as well as to provide language educators… Continue reading…
Artesana de sí misma by Claudia Cabello Hutt reevaluates the place of Nobel laureate Gabriela Mistral in the literary and intellectual history of Latin America, illuminating and filling a number of lingering voids in the study of this canonical figure. Cabello Hutt introduces readers to Mistral’s vast but scarcely studied journalistic… Continue reading…
A guide for the adventurous reader to Robbe-Grillet’s labyrinthine and playful world of novels, short stories, and autobiographies. Emerging early in the 1950s as an articulate and provocative spokesman for the “new novel,” Alain Robbe-Grillet is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading practitioners of experimental narrative. He has… Continue reading…
An English translation of the French philosopher’s sixth book, in which he seeks to develop a metaphysical context for modern atomistic science. French philosopher Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) is best known in the English-speaking world for his work on poetics and the literary imagination, but much of his oeuvre is devoted… Continue reading…
In this work, essays examine the representation of the female self in recent novels written by Spanish women ranging from internationally known, canonized novelists to newer, more experimental writers. They explore the myriad ways in which women’s struggle with self-definition and self-fulfillment is contemplated in Spain during a time in… Continue reading…
Mark Smith-Soto’s poetry merges cultures and familial memory with an aesthetic clarity and wisdom that I admire greatly as a reader and envy as a writer. In Time Pieces, the poet takes us on a linguistic journey across time, place, and emotional landscapes that inform and excite in equal measure…. Continue reading…