Product Description: With a broad geographic and linguistic sweep covering more than one hundred years of poetry, this book investigates the relationships between and among technology, aesthetics, and politics in Ibero-American experimental poetry. Eduardo Ledesma analyzes visual, concrete, kinetic, and digital poetry that questions what the literary means, what constitutes poetry, and how, if at all, visual and verbal arts should be differentiated...read more

When schoolteacher Kate Borrow arrives at the English country district of Kinning, she hardly suspects the dark secrets that will draw her under their spell, even when a young girl disappears suddenly

Product Description: Ramon Llull wrote the Doctrina pueril between 1274 and 1276 to provide minimum knowledge to those people---children, but also adults--- who did not have the opportunity to acquire a sufficient doctrinal and intellectual education...read more

Following the defeat of the Second Spanish Republic, Maria Zambrano (1904 1991) and Rosa Chacel (1898 1994), two of Spain s most gifted intellectuals and writers, wrote compelling meditations on the meaning of confession in life and literature. Noel Valis and Carol Maier provide the first complete English-language translations of these essays. Zambrano and Chacel were friends, if not always amicably so; supporters of the Republic; and exiles. Both disciples of the philosopher Ortega y Gasset, they were nevertheless able to establish their own creative independence in their writing. Not only do the essays address national issues centered on Spanish literature, culture, and history, they also offer a unique philosophical-spiritual and literary approach to confession within the areas of philosophy, literature, religion, autobiography, women s and gender studies, and cultural studies. The translators introduction, afterword, and meticulous annotations supplement the texts."

Product Description: Composed in early thirteenth-century Iberia, the Libro de Alexandre was Spain’s first vernacular version of the Romance of Alexander and the first poem in the corpus now known as the mester de clerecía. These learned works, written by clergy and connected with both school and court, were also tools for the articulation of sovereignty in an era of prolonged military and political expansion...read more