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In Combat: The Life of Lombardo Toledano

By: Daniela Spenser

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In Combat: The Life of Lombardo Toledano

By: Daniela Spenser

In a rigorously researched biography and through graceful prose, Daniela Spenser narrates the life of Vicente Lombardo Toledano, a man who reflects the complexity of post-revolutionary Mexico, the hopes it awoke as much as the failed projects it left behind.

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9004410007

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In Combat: The Life of Lombardo Toledano

By: Daniela Spenser

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The Impossible Triangle

Mexico, Soviet Russia, and the United States in the 1920s

By: Daniela Spenser

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The Impossible Triangle

Mexico, Soviet Russia, and the United States in the 1920s

By: Daniela Spenser

Post-revolutionary Mexico's establishment of diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union recognized their shared commitment to working-class people and asserted Mexican sovereignty in defiance of the United States. This work reveals the history and consequenc

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Duke University Press

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0822322897

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9780822322894

Stumbling Its Way Through Mexico

The Early Years of the Communist International

By: Daniela Spenser

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Stumbling Its Way Through Mexico

The Early Years of the Communist International

By: Daniela Spenser

Based on documents found principally in the Soviet archives recently opened to the public, Stumbling Its Way through Mexico is an invitation to rethink the history of Communism in Mexico and Latin America.

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217

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University of Alabama Press

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0817317368

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9780817317362

Beckett's Dantes

Intertextuality in the fiction and criticism

By: Daniela Caselli

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Beckett's Dantes

Intertextuality in the fiction and criticism

By: Daniela Caselli

Beckett's Dantes: Intertextuality in the Fiction and Criticism is the first study in English on the literary relation between Beckett and Dante. It is an innovative reading of Samuel Beckett and Dante's works and a critical engagement with contemporary theories of intertextuality. It is an informative intertextual reading of Beckett's work, detecting previously unknown quotations, allusions to, and parodies of Dante in Beckett's fiction and criticism. The volume interprets Dante in the original Italian (as it appears in Beckett), translating into English all Italian quotations. It benefits from a multilingual approach based on Beckett's published works in English and French, and on manuscripts (which use English, French, German and Italian). Through a close reading of Beckett's fiction and criticism, the book will argue that Dante is both assumed as an external source of literary and cultural authority in Beckett's work, and also participates in Beckett's texts' sceptical undermining of authority. Moreover, the book demonstrates that the many references to various 'Dantes' produce 'Mr Beckett' as the figure of the author responsible for such a remarkably interconnected oeuvre. The book is aimed at the scholarly communities interested in literatures in English, literary and critical theory, comparative literature and theory, French literature and theory and Italian studies. Its jargon-free style will also attract third-year or advanced undergraduate students, and postgraduate students, as well as those readers interested in the unusual relationship between one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century and the medieval author who stands for the very idea of the Western canon.

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Manchester University Press

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1847796303

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9781847796301

Improper Modernism

Djuna Barnes's Bewildering Corpus

By: Daniela Caselli

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Improper Modernism

Djuna Barnes's Bewildering Corpus

By: Daniela Caselli

In her compelling reexamination of Djuna Barnes's work, Daniela Caselli raises timely questions about Barnes, biography and feminist criticism, identity and authority, and modernist canon formation. Through close readings of Barnes's manuscripts, correspondence, critically acclaimed and little-known texts, Caselli tackles one of the central unacknowledged issues in Barnes: intertextuality. She shows how throughout Barnes's corpus the repetition of texts, by other authors (from Blake to Middleton) and by Barnes herself, forces us to rethink the relationship between authority and gender and the reasons for her marginal place within modernism. All her texts, linked as they are by correspondences and permutations, wage a war against the common sense of the straight mind. Caselli begins by analyzing how literary criticism has shaped our perceptions of Barnes, showing how the various personae assigned to Barnes are challenged when the right questions are posed: Why is Barnes such a famous author when many of her texts remain unread, even by critics? Why has criticism reduced Barnes's work to biographical speculations? How can Barnes's hybrid, eccentric, and unconventional corpus be read as part of literary modernism when it often seems to sever itself from it? How can an oeuvre reject the labels of feminist and lesbian literature, whilst nevertheless holding at its centre the relationships between language, sexuality, and the real? How can Barnes's work help us to rethink the relation between simplicity and difficulty within literary modernism? Caselli concludes by arguing that Barnes's complex and bewildering work is committed to a high modernist notion of art as a supremely difficult undertaking whilst refusing to conform to standards of modernist acceptability.

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Routledge

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1351928333

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The Impossible Triangle

Mexico, Soviet Russia, and the United States in the 1920s

By: Daniela Spenser

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Mexico, Soviet Russia, and the United States in the 1920s

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Duke University Press

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Leopardi and Shelley

Discovery, Translation and Reception

By: Cerimonia Daniela

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Leopardi and Shelley

Discovery, Translation and Reception

By: Cerimonia Daniela

Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) crossed paths during their lifetimes, and though they never met, the legacy of their work betrays a shared destiny. As prominent figures who challenged and contributed to the Romantic debate, Leopardi and Shelley hold important roles in the history of their respective national literatures, but paradoxically experienced a controversial and delayed reception outside their native lands. Cerimonia?s wide-ranging study brings together these two poets for the first time for an exploration of their afterlives, through a close reading of hitherto unstudied translations. This intriguing journey tells the story, from its origins, of the two poets? critical fortune, and examines their position in the cultural debates of the nineteenth century; in disputes regarding translation theories and practices; and shows the configuration of their identities as we understand their legacy today.

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135156031X

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In Combat: The Life of Lombardo Toledano

In Combat: The Life of Lombardo Toledano

In Combat: The Life of Lombardo Toledano

In Combat: The Life of Lombardo Toledano

The Impossible Triangle

The Impossible Triangle

Stumbling Its Way Through Mexico

Stumbling Its Way Through Mexico

Beckett's Dantes

Beckett's Dantes

Improper Modernism

Improper Modernism

The Impossible Triangle

The Impossible Triangle

Leopardi and Shelley

Leopardi and Shelley

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