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Chelsea Blackbird and Barney Nelson

Celebrated and controversial author Mary Austin (1866-1934) lived in and wrote about her beloved Southwest, a place that has shaped and been shaped by three distinctive groups: Indian, Spanish, and Anglo. Austin discovered in the Southwest that these cultures blended languages, races, and religions, creating what she believed were unique versions of Catholicism, nature worship, ceremonies, and visions. Those beliefs worked their way through her literary criticism, leading her to ground-breaking ideas of place-based influences, narrative techniques, and dramatic development. In Mary Austin?s Southwest, editors Blackbird and Nelson shine light on Austin?s work, revealing her to be a significant trailblazer for literary diversity. With thoughtful introductions to selected writings on Austin?s prose, drama, and poetry as well as an annotated checklist of her published Southwestern literary criticism, this collection is a celebration of a rich mixed heritage as expressed through the written word.--Amazon.com.

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Lisa M. Peppercorn

This unique book presents a wealth of source material for those interested in the Brazilian composer Villa-Lobos's music and his country. Autograph letters in facsimile, newspaper and periodical articles and original programmes are reproduced to chart the development of Brazilian culture from the earliest times up to the death of the composer in 1959. Photographs and descriptions recall both the old theatres, long since demolished, where Villa-Lobos's music was originally performed, and the numerous national institutions that played such an important part in the composer's life. The book also reproduces some of the instruments, tunes and legends which Villa-Lobos studied in his attempt to create a truly Brazilian style of composition. These, together with surveys of his contemporaries in music, literature and history and his publishers, friends and family, provide a complete picture of the composer's world.

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par Gérard Gengembre

A travers l'études de seize drames romantiques, Gérard Gengembre donne à lire toute la diversité et la richesse d'un genre nouveau dont la dimension subversive n'échappa guère aux contemporains de Hugo, Musset, Dumas ou Vigny. Cette écriture libérée n'en finit pas aujourd'hui de secouer nos habitudes de lecteurs et de spectateurs.

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Carlos Huamán (coordinador

Se reúne diversos estudios relacionados con el problema de la representación oral y/o escrita de la heterogénea realidad latinoamericana, los cuales ofrecen interpretaciones interdisciplinarias que tienen como eje fundamental la literatura, pero que desbordan en la etnografía, la antropología, la lingüística y la historia.