Culture and Customs of Spain - Rilegato

Stanton, Edward F.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0313314632 ISBN 13: 9780313314636

Casa editrice: Greenwood Pub Group, 2002

Riassunto

Considering the radical changes in the country over the last quarter of the 20th century, Stanton (Spanish and Italian, U. of Kentucky) is compelled to speak of old and new Spain and Spaniards. He examines such cultural features as religion, customs, media, cinema, literature, and the performing and visual arts. He includes a chronology and a glossary without pronunciation guides. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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L'autore:

EDWARD F. STANTON is the Chair of the Department of Spanish and Italian at the University of Kentucky, where he was the first Bingham Professor of the Humanities. He is the author of several books on Hispanic life and literature, including Handbook of Spanish Popular Culture (Greenwood, 1999).

Product Description:

Vibrantly reveals the startling variety of landscape, people, and culture that make up Spain today. 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 constrasted to the leisurely paced Castilian, coexisting 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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• Editore: Greenwood Pub Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0313314632
• ISBN 13: 9780313314636
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 206