This book offers a comprehensive account of modern Spanish culture from its beginnings in the Revolution of 1868 to the present day. Specially-commissioned essays by leading experts analyze the historical and political background of modern Spain, the culture of major regions including Castile, Catalonia, and the Basque Country, and the country's literature. There are studies of painting, sculpture, architecture, cinema, dance, music, and the modern media. A chronology and guides to further reading assist in making the volume an invaluable introduction to the politics, literature and culture of modern Spain.
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"This book provides a thorough and penetrating view of modern Spain. The only book of its kind, The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture will help guide the reader through this complicated yet dazzling era in Spain's cultural history." Virginia Quarterly Review
"A perusal of Modern Spanish Culture will provide a feast of information and opinions on Spain, thus preparing the reader to understand the nation and its future as it surges into the twenty-first century." Espana Contemporanea
"A perusal of Modern Spanish Culture will provide a feast of information and opinions on Spain, thus preparing the reader to understand the nation and its future as it surges into the twenty-first century." Espana Contemporanea
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This book offers a comprehensive account of modern Spanish culture from its beginnings in the Revolution of 1868 to the present day. Specially-commissioned essays by leading experts analyse the historical and political background of modern Spain, the culture of major regions including Castile, Catalonia, and the Basque Country, and the country's literature. There are studies of painting, sculpture, architecture, cinema, dance, music, and the modern media. A chronology and guides to further reading assist in making the volume an invaluable introduction to the politics, literature and culture of modern Spain.
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This work is a comprehensive volume, well written, that examines the various strata of recent Spanish Culture. Unlike a previous reviewer, who seemed shocked at the notion that this work should include literature, art and music as "culture", I find it provides an adequate cross-section of various genres and media. This is not a "travel guide" or a touchy-feely "insider's guide" to Spain, but a serious scholarly introduction to the men and women who have defined Spanish culture in the 20th century. If you are looking for information on tapas, look elsewhere; if you want to know how the Spanish civil war impacted the arts, this is for you.
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For the purposes of this book, culture is defined as the arts, so the essays by various authors included in this book deal with literature, theater, dance, painting, etc., which could be very interesting, but not in this case. I got the impression that the essays were all examples of experts showing off how expert they are; very dry, lacking emotion, failing to inspire or excite. Too analytical, all head and no heart. For an excellent book on the modern life, living, arts, politics and all of Spain is "The New Spaniards" by John Hooper.
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I had to buy this book for class and it has been a very helpful tool. If you're interested in Spanish history, this book is an easy read full of fun facts.
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Suddenly, Spain seems to be exporting culture. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
soledad era esto, uneven modernity, social poetry, flamenco music Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Basque Country, Garcia Lorca, United States, Primo de Rivera, Second Republic, Garcia Escudero, Cambridge University Press, Latin American, San Sebastian, Duke University Press, Felipe Gonzalez, Antonio Machado, Juan Goytisolo, New Spanish Cinema, Popular Front, Stephanie Sieburth, Adolfo Suarez, Carlos Saura, Francisco Franco, Juan Carlos, Bernardo Atxaga, Buero Vallejo, Communist Party, First World War New!
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Suddenly, Spain seems to be exporting culture. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
soledad era esto, uneven modernity, social poetry, flamenco music Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Basque Country, Garcia Lorca, United States, Primo de Rivera, Second Republic, Garcia Escudero, Cambridge University Press, Latin American, San Sebastian, Duke University Press, Felipe Gonzalez, Antonio Machado, Juan Goytisolo, New Spanish Cinema, Popular Front, Stephanie Sieburth, Adolfo Suarez, Carlos Saura, Francisco Franco, Juan Carlos, Bernardo Atxaga, Buero Vallejo, Communist Party, First World War New!
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