Culture and Customs of Spain PDF
by Stanton Edward F. Stanton
Part of the Culture and Customs of Europe series
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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.
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:232 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing (USA)
- Publication Date:30/05/2002
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- ISBN:9780313077296
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:232 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing (USA)
- Publication Date:30/05/2002
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- ISBN:9780313077296