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Category Archives: Spain
Food, Art, and Eroticism? Gala’s Meals in Salvador Dalí’s Cookbook
Still looking for the perfect gift for someone who appreciates cooking and cookbooks, art and photography, or somewhat obscure Spanish cultural history? Good news! Just this October I learned that Taschen would publish a new edition of Salvador Dalí’s Rare, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Spain, Surrealism
Tagged 1940s, 1970s, books, Dalí, erotica, food, Salvador Dali, sexuality, Spain, surrealism
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“Celebración Cervantina / Cervantes Celebration” at K-State
2016 – This year marks the 400th anniversary of the deaths of two extremely influential literary figures: renowned English playwright William Shakespeare and celebrated Spanish playwright and novelist Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, who most know best as the author of … Continue reading
Posted in Language, Literature, Spain
Tagged 17th century, books, Cervantes, Don Quixote, Golden Age, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, novel
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Walking Around Scarecrows and Scarefishes: Surrealist Angst in Maruja Mallo and Pablo Neruda
One of the things I love about teaching and analyzing Spanish literature is that each time I (re)read a text for a new class or course, I end up interpreting it differently depending on what else I happen to be … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Literature, Spain, Spanish America, Surrealism, Women
Tagged 1930s, art, maruja mallo, Neruda, poetry, spanish art, surrealism
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Women and the Avant-garde: Maruja Mallo’s “Verbenas” (Carnivals)
Lately I’ve been returning to the art and literature of the Spanish Avant-garde – the time period that sparked my interest in studying Spanish literary, art, and cultural history more in depth (roughly 1917-1930s). Since I received my copy of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Spain, Surrealism, Women
Tagged 1920s, art history, avant garde, gender, madrid, maruja mallo, modernity, Salvador Dali, spanish art, vanguardia, verbena
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Discovering “The Soul of Spain”… in Kansas!
Since my hectic, teaching-heavy spring semester is finally over, I now have some time to start easing back into a few of my research projects. But first, of course, I needed some time to relax and not think about anything … Continue reading
Posted in Art, History, Literature, Spain, Women
Tagged books, Eugenics, gender, goya, Havelock Ellis, sevilla, sexuality
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Picasso’s “Guernica” and Aleixandre’s “Oda”: The Spanish Civil War in Art and Poetry
One of my favorite things to do when creating lesson plans and homework assignments is to find visuals that evoke the same themes or feelings as the literary text. When teaching poetry for example, I have found that images work … Continue reading
Posted in Art, History, Literature, Spain, Spanish Civil War
Tagged art, guernica, madrid, picasso, poetry, spanish art, spanish civil war, teaching, Vicente Aleixandre
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Francisco de Goya: The Enigma of the Black Paintings
This semester at Kansas State I am teaching a survey course on Spanish Civilization and Culture. While it is certainly requiring me to brush up on history and politics (from prehistoric times to the present, nonetheless), it is also giving … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Spain
Tagged 18th century, art history, black paintings, goya, madrid, museo del prado
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Following the Footsteps of a Literary Hero: Personal Histories of Place
This summer I had several projects to work on, including an article on urban Madrid, two new syllabi to prepare, and a conference presentation in Salamanca on the film Las 13 Rosas. But I also took on another smaller project … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Spain, Spanish Civil War
Tagged books, fiction, Franco, hero, history, journey, Laurie Lee, Spain, spanish civil war, travel
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