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The Hispanic Connection Spanish and Spanish-American Literature in the Arts of the World
Zenia Sacks DaSilva, ed.
ISBN: 0-275-98090-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98090-0
480 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 4/30/2004
List Price: $105.00 (UK Sterling Price: £72.95)
Discount Price: $52.50 Sale Price for U.S. Customers Only. Save 50%. Ends 12/31/2009.
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Media Type: Hardcover
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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: DaSilva draws together key essays dealing with the span of Spanish and Latin American arts, ranging from literature, music, film, and ballet to painting. Scholars and researchers involved with the scope of Spanish and Spanish American arts will find this collection of particular value. The selections center on basic themes including the icons of Spain, the use of characters from classic Spanish literature in performing and visual arts, romantic and modern Spanish writers and their influences, and the fusion of Mexican and Spanish culture.

The selections center on ten basic themes: The early icons of Spain; the uses of Don Quixote from operas to painting; Don Juan is given a similar treatment, with theater, film, and ballet in addition to literature and opera; an examination of areas of fusion of Spanish and Mexican culture; Spanish Romantics in opera and ballet; modern writers whose work appears in musical transcription; modern writers whose novels appear in film; an examination of works that parody earlier pieces; a survey of the interrelationship between painting and its literary sources; and a look at the variegated artistic peregrinations of such contemporaries as Marquez, Puig, Skarmeta, and others. Scholars and researchers involved with the scope of Spanish and Spanish American arts will find this collection of particular value.
Table of Contents:
  • Icons of Early Spain
    The Universal Don Quixote
    The Peripatetic Don Juan
    Point of Contact: New Spain
    Spanish Romantics et al. in Opera and Ballet
    Modern Writers in Musical Transcription
    From Novel to Silver Screen
    Texts Intertwined
    Word Pictures and Stroke of Brush
    The Pointed Pen at Large
About the Author: ZENIA SACKS DaSILVA is Professor of Spanish at Hofstra University. She is the author of numerous textbooks, among them, on the university level, the Concept Approach series, the cultural history Margenes: Historia intima del pueblo hispano, the Experiencias program, and two literary collections. A specialist in peninsular literature, she is now completing an anthology of humor and charm in Hispanic literature.
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