Sin miedo a las ruinas: Anarquismo, vanguardias artísticas y la crisis de representación en España (1930-1937) Luis González Barrios Luis González Barrios es Profesor Asociado de Lengua y Literatura Hispana en Spelman College. Al hablar de “vanguardias artísticas”, o “vanguardias históricas”, no es extraño el empleo del adjetivo calificativo “anárquico” que, a veces ambiguamente, alude […]

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The Problem of Literary Value by Robert Meyer-Lee Robert Meyer-Lee is Professor of English at Agnes Scott College. This book was supported by our TOME Atlanta program. This book addresses the vexed status of literary value. Unlike other approaches, it pursues neither an apologetic thesis about literature’s defining values nor, conversely, a demystifying account of […]

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Karel van Mander and his Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting by Walter S. Melion   Walter S. Melion is the Asa Griggs Professor of Art History. Written by the poet-painter Karel van Mander, who finished it in June 1603, the Grondt der edel, vry schilderconst (Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting) was the […]

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Hajj to the Heart: Sufi Journeys across the Indian Ocean by Scott Kugle Scott Kugle is Professor of South Asian and Islamic Studies in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies. Against the sweeping backdrop of South Asian history, this is a story of journeys taken by sixteenth-century reformist Muslim scholars and Sufi mystics […]

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The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea by Hwisang Cho Hwisang Cho is Associate Professor of Korean Studies in the Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures. The invention of an easily learned Korean alphabet in the mid-fifteenth century sparked an “epistolary revolution” in the following century as letter writing became […]

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