![]() In this light I propose to discuss the teaching of Unamuno’s Niebla as the node in such an hour-glass figure where forms and philosophies from many different sources are brought together to create a new genre: the nivola. But his concept of what it was to be Spanish is central to his contribution to world literature and thought. Unamuno’s understanding of what it was to be Spanish was inseparable from a world context. A man of immense erudition, Unamuno read over a dozen languages, taught Classics, was familiar with the major literary and philosophical figures of his day and championed the culture of “minor” languages such as Basque and Portuguese. ![]() ![]() ![]() Miguel de Unamuno is an author who practically begs to be taught in a comparative context. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Some of the popular literary journals that have featured her work include The Guardian, Huffington Post, Granta, and The Wrath Bearing Tree. Later, she used to publish those short stories and articles in various magazines and journals. In between her different jobs, Hough used to find time to write stories and work on the ideas that came to her mind. She has worked as a barista, a cable guy, an airman in the United States Air Force, a bartender, and a driver. While growing up, Hough took different jobs to earn her livelihood. She was brought up in seven different countries before her settling down in West Texas. Author Hough’s birth happened in Berlin, Germany. It is an autobiographical story showcasing the ups and downs, struggles, losses, triumphs, and hard work of the author’s life. This 2021 book has succeeded in reaching out to a large number of readers across the globe and managed to connect very well with them.Īuthor Hough has shared events from her personal life while growing up and has explained how those events shaped her life, thereby, making her become what she is today. Hough is widely popular for her debut book called Leaving Isn’t The Hardest Thing. She is famous for writing short stories and nonfiction, religious, feministic, women’s fiction, LGBT, memoirs, and biographical books. Lauren Hough is a renowned NY Times bestselling essayist and author based in Austin, Texas. ![]() ![]() Wed to the dauphin in April 1558, 16-year-old Mary-already so renowned for her beauty that she was deemed “ la plus parfaite,” or the most perfect-ascended to the French throne the following July, officially asserting her influence beyond her home country to the European continent.Īs Mary donned dual crowns, the new English queen, her cousin Elizabeth Tudor, consolidated power on the other side of the Channel. ![]() Her height emphasized Mary’s seemingly innate queenship: Enthroned as Scotland’s ruler at just six days old, she spent her formative years at the French court, where she was raised alongside future husband Francis II. Not only was she a female monarch in an era dominated by men, she was also physically imposing, standing nearly six feet tall. ![]() Mary, Queen of Scots, towered over her contemporaries in more ways than one. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the love story of the Emperor Vespasian and his mistress, Antonia Caenis. Lindsey Davis: The Course of Honour (UK 1997) No one could believe that a country-born army man might win the throne - no one, that is, except a slave girl who, with the future Emperor, begins a daring course of honor of her own. Yet as Vespasian slowly rises from near-obscurity and as emperor after emperor plays out their own deadly, seductive games of lust and conquest, the future is something no one could imagine. But he is inexorably drawn in by her intelligence and charisma. When the soldier Vespasian meets an interesting girl in the imperial palace, he doesn't know she is a slave in the household of the imperial family. This course had only one unbreakable rule: a senator is forbidden to marry a slave, even a freed slave. In ancient Rome, ambitious citizens who aspired to political power, to become one of the ruling elite - a senator, had to follow what was known as "The Course of Honor". Lindsey Davis: The Course of Honour (USA 2009) ![]() |