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Autore: |
Gill John (John Joseph)
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Titolo: |
Andalucia : a cultural history / / John Gill
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Pubblicazione: | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2009 |
©2009 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
Disciplina: | 946/.8 |
Soggetto geografico: | Andalusia (Spain) History |
Andalusia (Spain) Civilization | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | CONTENTS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction: THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS: EXCAVATING THE PAST IN ANDALUCÍA; Beyond the Border; Landscape in Motion; Part One: IBERIA: FROM PREHISTORY TO THE VISIGOTHS; Chapter One: GARDENS OF STONES: CAVES AND CAVE DWELLERS; The First Europeans; Early Cave Dwellers in Andalucía; The Cueva de la Pileta's Almanac; The Beaker People Sites of Almería; Chapter Two: TARTESSOS: LAND OF IVORY,APES AND PEACOCKS; Tartessos-qua-Atlantis; Chapter Three: LA DAMA DE BAZA: DEITIES OF LIFE AND DEATH; La Dama de Elche; La Dama del Cerro de los Santos |
Rituals of Life and DeathChapter Four: GADIR/CÁDIZ: FIRST CITY IN EUROPE; An Archipelago That Became a City; Cádiz after the "Reconquest"; Chapter Five: THE HEAVENLY CITIES OF BAETICA: ROMAN ANDALUCÍA; The Lost Treasures of Acinipo; The Temples of Baelo Claudia; The Heavenly City of Itálica; Chapter Six: VANDALUCIA: VISIGOTHS AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY; San Isidoro's Encyclopaedia; Part Two: AL-ANDALUS: FROM INVASION TO THE FALL OF GRANADA; Chapter Seven: TARIQ'S ROCK: THE CREATION OF AL-ANDALUS; A United Iberia | |
Chapter Eight: THE BLACKBIRD OF BAGHDAD: ALI IBN-NAFI AND THE INVENTION OF ROCK'N'ROLLZiryab's Legacy; Chapter Nine: TAMING A WILDERNESS: MADINAT AL-ZAHRA; Madinat al-Zahra, the Lost Islamic Wonder; The Fate of the "Shining City"; Chapter Ten: THE LIBRARY OF BABEL: CHRISTIANS,JEWS,MUSLIMS AND LA CONVIVENCIA; The Spanish Miracle; Chapter Eleven: TWO GENTLEMEN OF CÓRDOMA: AVERROËS,MAIMONIDES,AND THE CONSOLATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY; Averroës and Rationalism; The Second Moses; Part Three: ESPAÑA: FROM RECONQUEST TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY; Chapter Twelve: 1492: THE FALL OF GARNADA; The Alhambra | |
Boabdil Hands Over the KeysChapter Thirteen: TAKING THE GARDEN INDOORS: VELÁZQUEZ AND THE LANDSCAPE ARTISTS OF ANDALUCÍA; Rethinking the Landscape in Renaissance Spain; Velázquez at the Movies; Foregrounding the Background; Chapter Fourteen: NIGHTS IN THE GARDEN OF SPAIN: THE ROMANTIC ERA FABRICATES ""ANDALUSIA""; The Fictitious Landscapes of Manuel Barrón y Carillo; Chapter Fifteen: THE PICASSO CENTURY: CUBSIM,ABSTRACTION AND POST-MODERNISM IN ANDALUZ ART; A Painter in New York; Dos Extranjeros: Bomberg and Richmond; Contemporary Andaluz Indoor Gardeners; Andalucía on Screen | |
Chapter Sixteen: ENGLISHMEN ABROAD: THE CURIOUS HISTORY OF ANGLOPHONE WRITERS IN ANDALUCÍAWashington Irving's Parque Tematico; George Borrow and the Gypsies of Spain; Laurie Lee's Moment of War; Alastair Boyd's Idyll, J. G. Ballard's Heart of Darkness; Chris Stewart's Lemon Crop; Paul Richardson's Vanishing Spain; Chapter Seventeen: FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA'S LAST NIGHT ON EARTH: ANDALUZ WRITERS WRITING ANDALUCÍA; Lorca's Question to the Future; Jimenéz, the Transcendentalist of Moguer; Miguel Hernández, Poet of the Trenches; Luis Cernuda's Songs of the Land; Enter Goytisolo, Bristling | |
Juan Bonilla, Literary Gunslinger | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Garden of Earthly Delights Part One: Iberia: From Prehistory to the Visigoths 1. Gardens of Stone 2. Tartessos 3. La Dama de Baza (Deities of Death) 4. Gadir/Cadiz 5. The Heavenly Cities of Baetica 6. Vandalucia Part Two: Al-Andalus: From Invasion to the Fall of Granada 7. Tariq's Rock 8. The Blackbird of Baghdad 9. Taming a Wilderness 10. The Library of Babel 11. Two Gentlemen of Cordoba Parr Three: Espana: From Reconquest to the Twenty-First Century 12. 1492 13. Taking the Garden Indoors 14. Nights in the Gardens of Spain 15 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Andalucia ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-19-970451-1 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910460819103321 |
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