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Miguel de Unamuno - The Velazquez Christ. Poem.  - 9780761822868 - V9780761822868
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The Velazquez Christ. Poem.

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Description for The Velazquez Christ. Poem. Paperback. This book is a new translation, in contemporary English, of Miguel de Unamuno's 1920 masterpiece book-length poem about another masterpiece of Western Civilization, Diego Velazquez's "The Christ of San Placido," which is commonly known as "The Christ of Velazquez." Translator(s): Little, William Thomas. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 549.
This book is a new translation, in contemporary English, of Miguel de Unamuno's 1920 masterpiece book-length poem about another masterpiece of Western Civilization, Diego Velázquez's "The Christ of San Plácido," which is commonly known as "The Christ of Velázquez." The translation by William Thomas Little is accompanied by a full scholarly introduction and poem-by-poem commentary. Unamuno, Spain's foremost public intellectual of the early twentieth century, considered this book his masterpiece. This is a book of poetry and religious devotion as well as an ekphrasis, that is, a detail-by-detail meditation on one of the world's greatest paintings. Composed of eighty-nine poems ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761822868
SKU
V9780761822868
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About Miguel de Unamuno
William Thomas Little is Professor of Spanish at California Polytechnic State University.

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