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While studying the theory and contemporary impact of 'embodied'
viewing, this book celebrates the emergence and development of
Visual Studies as a major subject of research and teaching in the
field of Hispanic Studies within the UK over the last thirty years.
By exploring current routes of investigation, as well as analysing
future pathways for study in the field, seven highly distinguished
Spanish and Latin American scholars examine their own entry into
Visual Studies, and discuss the major trends and changes which
occurred in the field as matters of the visual gradually became
embedded in higher-education curricula and research trajectories.
Each scholar also lays out a current research project, or interest,
concerning Spain or Latin America within the visual field. The
projects variously explore different media - including film,
sculpture, photography, dance, and performance art - spread across
a wide array of geographical locales, including Mexico, Cuba,
mainland Spain, and the Canary Islands. Offering a map of current
and future research in the field, this book provides the first
history of visual studies within UK Hispanism. It will be of
lasting value to a wide range of scholars and advanced students of
Spanish and Latin American cultural, visual, and film studies. This
book was originally published as a special issue of the Bulletin of
Spanish Studies.
Aunt Tula (La tia Tula), published in 1921, is one of the few
novels written by Miguel de Unamuno to centre on a female
protagonist. It is a vivid, nuanced portrait of the intelligent,
wilful and yet vulnerable Tula. Despite having no biological
children of her own, the unmarried Tula becomes the primary
maternal figure for successive generations of children; some
related to her, others not. Her chaste maternity is presented as a
complex response to her long-held, self-sacrificing romantic love
for her brother-in-law, her antipathy for the submissive role
expected of bourgeois married women, and Tula's fear of her own
physicality. Julia Biggane's translation captures the accessibility
of style and richness of literary substance in the original, and
the introduction equips the reader with an understanding of the
text's wider material contexts and historical significance. Of
special interest is the novel's representation of womanhood and
maternity, itself inflected by wider social changes in countries
across Western Europe and Russia during the first two decades of
the 20th century.
Aunt Tula (La tia Tula), published in 1921, is one of the few
novels written by Miguel de Unamuno to centre on a female
protagonist. It is a vivid, nuanced portrait of the intelligent,
wilful and yet vulnerable Tula. Despite having no biological
children of her own, the unmarried Tula becomes the primary
maternal figure for successive generations of children; some
related to her, others not. Her chaste maternity is presented as a
complex response to her long-held, self-sacrificing romantic love
for her brother-in-law, her antipathy for the submissive role
expected of bourgeois married women, and Tula's fear of her own
physicality. Julia Biggane's translation captures the accessibility
of style and richness of literary substance in the original, and
the introduction equips the reader with an understanding of the
text's wider material contexts and historical significance. Of
special interest is the novel's representation of womanhood and
maternity, itself inflected by wider social changes in countries
across Western Europe and Russia during the first two decades of
the 20th century.
While studying the theory and contemporary impact of 'embodied'
viewing, this book celebrates the emergence and development of
Visual Studies as a major subject of research and teaching in the
field of Hispanic Studies within the UK over the last thirty years.
By exploring current routes of investigation, as well as analysing
future pathways for study in the field, seven highly distinguished
Spanish and Latin American scholars examine their own entry into
Visual Studies, and discuss the major trends and changes which
occurred in the field as matters of the visual gradually became
embedded in higher-education curricula and research trajectories.
Each scholar also lays out a current research project, or interest,
concerning Spain or Latin America within the visual field. The
projects variously explore different media - including film,
sculpture, photography, dance, and performance art - spread across
a wide array of geographical locales, including Mexico, Cuba,
mainland Spain, and the Canary Islands. Offering a map of current
and future research in the field, this book provides the first
history of visual studies within UK Hispanism. It will be of
lasting value to a wide range of scholars and advanced students of
Spanish and Latin American cultural, visual, and film studies. This
book was originally published as a special issue of the Bulletin of
Spanish Studies.
Surveys the thought and literary work of a towering figure in
twentieth-century Spanish cultural and political life. As a
novelist, dramatist, essayist, poet and public intellectual, Miguel
de Unamuno (1864-1936) was a strikingly energetic and prolific
writer, and a towering figure in twentieth-century Spanish cultural
and political life. His work explored fundamental questions about
existence and identity (both individual and national).Widely
recognised and translated during his lifetime, he was an
inescapably canonical figure on university syllabi across Europe
and the Americas for many years after his death, and still appears
on many curricula. In this Companion, a range of distinguished
scholars with very different approaches both survey Unamuno's work
chronologically, analysing major developments and turning points or
breaks as well as continuities, and further study key themes and
preoccupations across his prolific narrative, theatrical and essay
output. All contributors offer not just incisive discussion of the
texts or topics studied, but also a balanced overview of issues and
debates arising in Unamuno studies. Julia Biggane is senior
lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Aberdeen. She is
a general editor of theBulletin of Spanish Studies, and director of
the Sir Herbert Grierson Centre for Textual Criticism and
Comparative Literary History at the University of Aberdeen. John
Macklin was Professor of Hispanic Studies and Head of the School of
Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Glasgow. In
1994, he was made a Commander of the Order of Isabel la Catolica by
King Juan Carlos of Spain.
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