Not easily translated, the Spanish terms cursi and cursilería refer to a cultural phenomenon
widely prevalent in Spanish society since the nineteenth century. Like" kitsch," cursi evokes …

Michael Iarocci traces the ways in which Spain went from being central to European history
and identity during the early modern period to being marginalized and displaced by …

The Romantic period coincided with revolutionary transformations of traditional political and
human rights discourses, as well as witnessing rapid advances in technology and a …

From Napoleon's invasion of Portugal in 1807 to his final defeat at Waterloo, the English
theatres played a crucial role in the mediation of the Peninsular campaign. In the first in …

Como lo kitsch, lo cursi evoca la idea del mal gusto, pero es un concepto con más
implicaciones. La cursilería ha sido un fenómeno cultural muy difundido en la sociedad …

The purpose of this research is to reconstruct the clothing culture of 19th century Spanish
Philippines and to discover the importance of dress in Philippine colonial society. This study …

This essay examines the emergence of Spain (its geography, history and culture) as an
object of increasingly frequent operations of reconstruction, description and inscription in …

This dissertation explores the significance of space in the creation of existential meaning
and the development of a collective identity in Spanish and French Caribbean literature …

Este artículo pretende plantear la cuestión de la inadecuación de los esquemas nacionales
tradicio-nalmente aplicados a la configuración de la historia literaria, cuando se proyectan …

[Es] Antes de que se conociera la filmación de representaciones de danza y con
anterioridad a que una gran cantidad de información estuviera disponible en internet, las …