Modern Spain is a revelation in this up-to-date overview.
Stanton vibrantly describes the startling variety of landscape,
people, and culture that make up Spain today. Included are a
context chapter and others on religion, customs, media, cinema,
literature, performing arts, and visual arts. Students of Spanish
and a general audience will be rewarded with engrossing insights
into what writer Ernest Hemingway called the very best country of
all.
Spain is a modern European nation, yet Spaniards are fiercely
tied to their individual towns and regions--with their distinct
social customs, dialects or languages, foods, landscape, and
lifestyles--more than to a united country. "Culture and Customs of
Spain" conveys the extremes, such as the hard-working Catalan
contrasted to the leisurely paced Castilian, coexisting in first
and third world conditions, and the love/hate relationship with the
Catholic Church. Spain's institutions are described, and its
contributions to the world--from unparalleled literature and
cuisine to flamenco and filmmaker Pedro Almodovar--are celebrated.
A chronology and glossary complement the text.
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