Rojas' Celestina (1499) and Delicado's La Lozana andaluza (1530) were written during the height of the Spanish Inquisition. This book... Læs mere
Between 1605 and 1621, Quevedo wrote a sequence of five ""Dreams"" or ""Visions"" (Suenos y discursos). Censorship prohibited its... Læs mere
This work argues that a feminist ethics, in order to be both feminist and ethical, needs to embrace psychoanalysis. It includes an analysis of two attempts... Læs mere
Criticism of exile literature has tended to analyse these works according to a binary logic where exile either produces... Læs mere
This collection of papers follows the objectives of a work published in ""CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture - a WWWeb Journal"", namely, the publishing of new work in comparative literature, cultural studies and comparative cultural studies.
A biography of noted Indiana businessman John Purdue, whose donations of time and money led to the founding of Indiana's greatest land-grant... Læs mere
Providing a reference to the economic, social, political, scientific, and technological changes that have most affected farming in America, this book is a story of... Læs mere
This work explores the use of the grammatical figure called the chiasmus in the work of Miguel de Unamuno. He explores concepts, usually... Læs mere
This text is designed to take the reader through the entire manufacturing process of hardwood plywood. Beginning with an explanation of lay terminology, it then addresses the many processes by which hardwood and decorative veneers can be cut and manufactured.
This work is a collection of papers in comparative cultural studies, rather than the single-culture approach, applied in the study of Central European culture. It proposes that a Central European culture, as controversial and debated as the notion may be, exists.
Analyses La Rochefoucauld's ideas on truth and falsehood in the context of his views on self-love, on the passions, and on vice and virtue. The book also explores his views on the subject in relation to what he sees as the extremely fragile foundations of the social contract.