Culture and Customs of Spain / Edition 1

Culture and Customs of Spain / Edition 1

by Edward F. Stanton
ISBN-10:
0313314632
ISBN-13:
9780313314636
Pub. Date:
05/30/2002
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN-10:
0313314632
ISBN-13:
9780313314636
Pub. Date:
05/30/2002
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Culture and Customs of Spain / Edition 1

Culture and Customs of Spain / Edition 1

by Edward F. Stanton

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Overview

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 contrasted to the leisurely paced Castilian, coexisting in 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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313314636
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 05/30/2002
Series: Culture and Customs of Europe
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 232
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

Series Foreword
Preface
Chronology
Context
Religion
Customs
Media
Cinema
Literature
Performing Arts
Visual Arts
Index

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