Culture and Customs of Spain Paperback / softback
by Edward F. Stanton
Part of the Culture and Customs of Europe series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:232 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:30/05/2002
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- ISBN:9780313360800
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:232 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:30/05/2002
- Category:
- ISBN:9780313360800
