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Dreams of Waking
Vincent Barletta
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Description for Dreams of Waking
Paperback. With helpful annotations to the poetry, as well as a selected bibliography containing the most important editions and translations from all three of the main Iberian languages, this volume is suitable for both specialists and students in comparative literature. Editor(s): Barletta, Vincent; Bajus, Mark; Malik, Cici. Translator(s): Barletta, Vincent; Bajus, Mark; Malik, Cici. Num Pages: 432 pages, 3 halftones, 3 tables. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
In this anthology, Vincent Barletta, Mark L. Bajus, and Cici Malik treat the Iberian lyric in the late Middle Ages and early modernity as a deeply multilingual, transnational genre that needs to break away from the old essentialist ideas about language, geography, and identity in order to be understood properly. More and more, scholars and students are recognizing the limitations of single-language, nationalist, and period-bound canons and are looking for different ways to approach the study of literature. The Iberian Peninsula is an excellent site for this approach, where the history and politics of the region, along with its creative ... Read more
In this anthology, Vincent Barletta, Mark L. Bajus, and Cici Malik treat the Iberian lyric in the late Middle Ages and early modernity as a deeply multilingual, transnational genre that needs to break away from the old essentialist ideas about language, geography, and identity in order to be understood properly. More and more, scholars and students are recognizing the limitations of single-language, nationalist, and period-bound canons and are looking for different ways to approach the study of literature. The Iberian Peninsula is an excellent site for this approach, where the history and politics of the region, along with its creative ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226011332
SKU
V9780226011332
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About Vincent Barletta
Vincent Barletta is associate professor of Iberian and Latin American cultures at Stanford University. Mark L. Bajus and Cici Malik are PhD candidates in the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford University.
Reviews for Dreams of Waking
"It is enlightening and refreshing to find poems by poets such as Garcilaso de la Vega and Luis de Camoes along with lesser known, marvelous gems of Catalan and Aljamiado poetry. The selection of texts is unerring, and their coexistence in one single volume is bound to offer the general reader and the specialized student new insight on early modern ... Read more