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Free Download Don Tryon, Mary Ellen Tryon, "San Juan Capistrano"
English | 2005 | pages: 130 | ISBN: 1531616577, 0738530441 | EPUB | 46,1 mb
The legendary swallows aren’t the only annual returnees to San Juan Capistrano. The great coastal mission draws more than 500,000 visitors a year into the southern reaches of Orange County. The most famous of all the missions in the California system established in the 18th century by Franciscan friar Junipero Serra, Mission San Juan Capistrano still contains the Serra Chapel, the oldest church in California, and the only building still standing where the good padre celebrated mass. But San Juan Capistrano is more than its well-known mission. Its epic story encompasses the rancho days and land barons, California statehood, the arrival of the San Diego Freeway in 1958, city incorporation in 1961, and recent growth from 10,000 residents in 1974 to 34,000 in 2004.

Free Download Malcolm K. Read, "On the Theory and History of Ideological Production: Juan Carlos Rodríguez and His Contemporaries "
English | ISBN: 9004678565 | 2023 | 296 pages | PDF | 2 MB

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Free Download Lori Oxford, "Pedro Juan Gutiérrez’s Dirty Realism: Reinventing Cuban Spaces"
English | ISBN: 1666910031 | 2023 | 168 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1532 KB + 2 MB
In Pedro Juan Gutiérrez’s Dirty Realism: Reinventing Cuban Spaces, Lori Oxford conducts a series of close readings that expound on Gutiérrez’s interpretation of life and reality in the spaces of the Special Period throughout the five works that make up his Ciclo Centro Habana Cycle (1998-2003). Gutiérrez’s settings oscillate between the utopian, the dystopian, and the heterotopian in unexpected fashion, often revealing his protagonists’ surprising affinity for the latter two. In her examination of Gutiérrez’s use of these interwoven -topian spaces, Oxford shows how the three spaces, although apparently contradictory, have managed to coexist in Cuba and demonstrates how they are all reflected in Gutiérrez’s fiction, often simultaneously, just as they exist in Cuba’s reality.

Free Download Juan de Segovia and the Fight for Peace: Christians and Muslims in the Fifteenth Century (History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds) by Anne Marie Wolf
English | March 24, 2014 | ISBN: 0268044252 | True EPUB/PDF | 390 pages | 3/3.2 MB
Juan de Segovia (d. 1458), theologian, translator of the Qur’ān, and lifelong advocate for the forging of peaceful relations between Christians and Muslims, was one of Europe’s leading intellectuals. Today, however, few scholars are familiar with this important fifteenth-century figure. In this well-documented study, Anne Marie Wolf presents a clear, chronological narrative that follows the thought and career of Segovia, who taught at the University of Salamanca, represented the university at the Council of Basel (1431-1449), and spent his final years arguing vigorously that Europe should eschew war with the ascendant Ottoman Turks and instead strive to convert them peacefully to Christianity.

Free Download Sean Qualls, "The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano"
English | 2011 | pages: 208 | ISBN: 0312659288, 0805077065 | EPUB | 1,5 mb
A lyrical biography of a Cuban slave who escaped to become a celebrated poet, from Newbury Honor author Margarita Engle.

Free Download Spanish Humanism on the Verge of the Picaresque: Juan Maldonado’s "Ludus Chartarum," "Pastor Bonus," and "Bacchanalia" By Warren S. Smith (editor), Clark Colahan (editor)
2009 | 291 Pages | ISBN: 9058677087 | PDF | 14 MB
The sixteenth-century humanist Juan Maldonado (c. 14851554), in his Latin essays, foreshadows the Spanish picaresque. Maldonado’s Pastor Bonus, a lengthy open letter to a bishop, reviews in a vivid and satirical style the abuses of the churchmen in his diocese. His Ludus chartarum is framed as a colloquium on entertaining while teaching a Latin terminology for card playing. His Bacchanalia is a spirited play pitting the forces of Lent against those of Bacchus. These works have been edited and translated into English by Warren S. Smith and Clark Colahan for the first time, with illustrations of scenes from each work, and of sixteenth-century cards, by Richard Simmons and Caleb Smith.

Free Download Byron’s Don Juan: The Liberal Epic of the Nineteenth Century
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009366238 | 269 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
In this first full-length study of Byron’s masterpiece in over thirty years, Richard Cronin boldly presents Don Juan as the epic poem of its age. Impressively illuminating the whole literary nineteenth century through a single work, he asks what kind of epic can be said to represent an era more readily defined by newspapers and magazines than by competitors such as Wordsworth’s Excursion or Southey’s Joan of Arc arose. Delving into questions of form and choice of hero, he also explores the controversies that informed the poem’s reception, its contemporary interactions, and its influence on later nineteenth-century literature. Don Juan, he argues, is the epic poem demanded by an age of cant and dissembling, when people’s feelings and the world they lived in had become disconnected. In it, he finds a powerful defence of liberal thinking at a time when that kind of thinking was under threat.

Free Download Peter Cochran, "Aspects of Byron’s Don Juan"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1443847348 | PDF | pages: 531 | 2.0 mb
ASPECTS OF BYRON’S DON JUAN is in part a proceedings volume from the 2012 conference held by the Newstead Byron Society at Nottingham Trent University. Speakers represented in the book include Malcolm Kelsall, Peter Cochran, Diego Saglia and Itsuyo Higashinaka. Topics range from the politics of Don Juan, and its treatment of women, to its comic rhymes. One section is devoted to the poem’s importance in the literatures of Spain and Russia, another to the vast catalogue of Byron’s prose sources (from cannibalism to cookery books), and a final section to the important role played by Mary Shelley in copying most of the poem for the printer. The editor’s introduction describes the enormous literary tradition of which Don Juan forms a vital continuation, from Pulci’s Morgante Maggiore, via Rabelais, Cervantes, and Montaigne, to the novelists Sterne, Smollett and Fielding, all of whom Byron adored. Another chapter concerns the differing ways in which Don Juan has been treated by other artists, from Tirso de Molina, via E.T.A. Hoffman, to Johnny Depp.