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  VALERA Y ALCALD GALIANO, JUAN - LoveToKnow Article on VALERA Y ALCALD GALIANO, JUAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
VALERA Y ALCALA GALIANO, JUAN (1824-1905), Spanish novelist, son of a retired commodore, Jose Valera, who married Dona Dolores Alcala Galiano, marquesa de la Paniega, widow of a Swiss general named Freuller, was born on the i8th of October 1824 at Cabra (Cordova).
Valera, in effect, refused to criticize contemporary literature; as a rival author it seemed to him an indelicacy to censure his competitors, and he was either laudatory or silent.
Valera, then, excelled neither as a poet nor as an impartial critic; he had the vocation of the novelist, though he was slow in discovering it, since he was in his fiftieth year before be published the novel which was to make him famous.
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 Juan Valera y Alcala Galiano --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Valera travelled to Europe and America in the diplomatic corps and served as deputy, senator and under-secretary of state in Madrid.
An important 19th-century Spanish novelist and stylist, Juan Valera was opposed to realistic narrative and believed that the novel was a form of poetry.
The letter Y is a descendant of the letter V. After the Romans had become the rulers of the Mediterranean world, they became acquainted with the Greek use of the letter called upsilon.
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 Biographical Note. Valera, Juan. 1917. Pepita Jimenez. Vol. XX, Part 1. Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
After the revolution in 1868 Valera held high office during the short reign of Amadeo of Savoy, but withdrew when the republic was set up.
Valera’s inexperience in the writing of novels at the date at which he produced “Pepita Jiménez” is shown by its somewhat amateurish construction, but the extraordinary merits of the work have more than compensated for structural flaws.
In the treatment of the delicate theme of the novel Valera shows an agility and tact that are truly marvelous.
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 VALERA Y ALCALA GALIANO, JUAN (1824-1905) - Online Information article about VALERA Y ALCALA GALIANO, JUAN (1824-1905)
ALCALA (Moorish al Kala, the " Fortress " or " Castle ")
Valera's first publication, Canciones; Romances y Poemas, was published in 1856.
Valera, then, excelled neither as a poet nor as an impartial critic; he had the vocation of the novelist, though he was slow in discovering it, since he was in his fiftieth See also:
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 Spanish literature. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
During the reign of John II of Castile in the first half of the 15th cent., two important poets were Juan de Mena and the marqués de Santillana, both of whom wrote under Italian influence.
Pío Baroja y Nessi infused his novels with a fierce independence of spirit that rejected all traditional values and sought to arouse people to action.
The lyrics of Antonio Machado and of the great Juan Ramón Jiménez are among the finest in the language.
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 Juan Valera y Alcala Galiano Biography / Biography of Juan Valera y Alcala Galiano Main Biography
The Spanish novelist, critic, and diplomat Juan Valera y Alcalá Galiano (1824-1905) is primarily remembered for his novel Pepita Jiménez (1874), which won international fame.
Juan Valera was born in Cabra in the province of Cordova to an aristocratic family.
Valera became blind in his last years but continued to write, dictating his works to his secretary.
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 ValdEs Juan De: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Juan Goytisolo and the Poetics of Contagion: The Evolution of a Radical Aesthetic in the Later Novels
Juan Ponce De Leon and the Spanish Discovery of Puerto Rico and Florida
Juan Valdes Paz CUBA CAROLLEE BENGELSDORE Juan Valdes Paz was for many years a researcher and a member of the...given by Fidel Castro on July 26, 1995 in Santiago de Cuba.
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 ValdEs Juan De: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Although Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes and Bartolome de las Casas have asserted that Juan Ponce sailed on Columbuss second voyage, Fuson admits that there is no hard proof of that...
...y, de repente, de una broma, de un gag comico, te saltan a un...el restaurante vomitando y los valdes van y vienen.
VALDES LEAL, JUAN DE laal, 1622 90, Spanish baroque painter and etcher, active mainly in Seville and Cordoba.
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 Valera Diego De: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
VALERA, DIEGO DE dyāˈgō dā välāˈrä, 1412?–1488?, Spanish adventurer and writer.
Juan Pizzaro was dead, Diego de Almagro was dead.
One of her chroniclers, Diego de Valera, however, defended the action...their blatant wrongdoing (98).
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 AllRefer.com - Spanish literature : Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Movements (Spanish And Portuguese ...
PIo Baroja y Nessi infused his novels with a fierce independence of spirit that rejected all traditional values and sought to arouse people to action.
Criticism, which had flourished at the turn of the century under the erudite Marcelino MenEndez y Pelayo, reached new heights in the works of the distinguished medievalist RamOn MenEndez Pidal.
The lyrics of Antonio Machado and of the great Juan RamOn JimEnez are among the finest in the language.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Juan Valera ... Galiano
The French took three years of struggle and shed oceans of blood to win their liberty.
Marichal, Juan, born in 1937, Dominican baseball player, who struck out 2,304 hitters in 16 seasons and walked just 709 in 3,507 innings.
Cabrillo, Juan Rodríguez (died 1543), Portuguese explorer and soldier.
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 Valera Valera, Texas, Coleman County: Travel, History, Images And Discount Hotel Reservation. Coleman H   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
"De Valera Dominated Irish Life as a Fighter, Hero, Leader, Statesman" Eamon de Valera was born on October 14, 1882 in New York City of an Irish mother and a Spanish father.
Eamon de Valera was born in Manhattan, New York, on 14th October 1882.
His father was Juan de Valera, a Spaniard who had studied to be a sculptor but due.
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 Zorrilla y Moral, Jose (1817-93) - MavicaNET   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Among his many plays Don Juan Tenorio (1844) is a Spanish favorite, as is El zapatero y el rey [the shoemaker and the king] (1840—42).
José Zorrilla y Moral naquit à Valladolid le 21 février 1817.
Among his many plays Don Juan Tenorio (1844) is a Spanish favorite, as is El zapatero y el rey [the shoemaker and the king] (1840-42).
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Juan Valera y AlcalA Galiano, Spanish And Portuguese Literature, Biographies
Juan Valera y AlcalA Galiano[hwAn vAlA´rA E AlkAlA´ gAlyA´nO] Pronunciation Key, 1824–1905, Spanish writer and diplomat.
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 Valera y Alcala Galiano, Juan (1824-1905) - MavicaNET   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Valera y Alcala Galiano, Juan (1824-1905) - MavicaNET
La Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, la primera en lengua castellana, es un fondo bibliograndaacute;fico con obras de Literatura, Historia, Ciencias, etc., de libre acceso.
Incluye trabajos de investigaciandoacute;n, catandaacute;logo en otras lenguas y bibliotecas del mundo.
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 Alibris: Juan Valera
Born in Andalucia in 1824 Juan Valera y Alcala Galiano was a writer, diplomat, politician, poet and literary critic.
The interior voice of the author is permanently present, and underlines his prime concerns: the quest for the aesthetic...
Terapéutica social; expuesta en historias, novelas, disertaciones y otras obrillas de mero pasatiempo.
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 Alcala - OneLook Dictionary Search
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ALCALA (13 TOWNS) : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
Phrases that include Alcala: alcala de henares, niceto alcala zamora, alcala la real, juan valera y alcala galiano, mission san diego de alcala, more...
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 Juan Valera y Alcala Galiano --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
Juan Valera y Alcala Galiano --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
Valera's prolific literary output includes some very fine translations, including parts of Goethe's Faust and Daphnis and Chloe (1907); literary criticism of Don Quixote, Faust, and other works; short stories, including El pájaro verde (1887; “The Green Bird”); plays (La venganza de Atahualpa); and numerous essays on religion, philosophy, history and politics.
His letters to intellectual figures such as Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo and Leopoldo de Cueto constitute a valuable record of his impressions on many topics of the era.
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 Learn Spanish Education A-S-L
Under the patronage of King Alfonso X (1221-84), himself a writer, Castilian prose was developed and many Arabic and Hebrew works were translated into Castilian.
Much of the work of the leading romantic authors Ángel de Saavedra, duque de Rivas, José de Espronceda, and José Zorrilla y Moral echoed French and English models, but Mariano José de Larra displayed originality in his admirable satirical sketches.
Larra's sketches were outstanding examples of costumbrismo the literary depiction of local color, customs, and types a genre that in Spain led to and was intimately associated with naturalism and realism.
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 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Spanish literature @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Much of the work of the leading romantic authors—Ángel de Saavedra, duque de Rivas, José de Espronceda, and José Zorrilla y Moral —echoed French and English models, but Mariano José de Larra displayed originality in his admirable satirical sketches.
Among the novelists to emerge after the Spanish civil war were Nobel Prize winner Camilo José Cela, Carman Laforet, and José María Gironella.
Writers whose literary reputations have been established since World War II include the novelists Max Aub, Miguel Delibes, Juan Goytisolo, Ana María Matute, Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Luís Martín-Santos, and Gonzalo Torrente-Ballester; the poets Manuel Altoaguirre and Gerardo Diego ; and the playwrights Antonia Buero Vallejo, Alejandro Casona, and Alfonso Sastre.
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 18 Oct History: This Date
Se suspende la constitución y sube al poder una junta compuesta por militares y miembros de la democracia cristiana.
Movements for Puerto Rican statehood, along with lesser movements for Puerto Rican independence, have won supporters on the island, but popular referendums in 1967 and 1993 demonstrated that the majority of Puerto Ricans still supported their special status as a US commonwealth.
The October Crisis was a rare period of violence during Québec's Quiet Revolution, an otherwise diplomatic effort by Québecois politicians to gain greater autonomy within the English-dominated federation of Canada.
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the most important writers were López de Ayala, the prince Don Juan Manuel, nephew of King Alfonso X, whose Libro de los exemplos del conde Lucanor et de Patronio was the first book of short stories in Spanish; and the satirical poet Juan Ruiz.
In 1833, with the death of Fernando VII, romanticism swept the country like a grass fire; its ascendancy was dramatic but superficial.
Benito Pérez Galdós dominated the realistic novel during the second half of the 19th cent., but Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, José María de Pereda, Armando Palacio Valdés, Juan Valera y Alcalá Galiano, and Emilia Pardo Bazán also wrote notable fiction.
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This is largely a harking back to primitive conditions, for in the oldest Castilian narrative verse the rule of “counted syllables” apparently did not prevail.  Cf.
A well constructed line of this type has a rhythmic accent on the sixth syllable, or a rhythmic accent on the fourth syllable (usually with syllabic stress on the eighth), beside the necessary accent in the tenth position.  Generally the inner accent falls on the sixth syllable approximately twice as often as on the fourth.
Y vàya de bàile, de bùlla y de jìra.
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 Spanish Language Resources: a Bibliography, May 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Romo, Alberto and Juan Valera y Alcala Galiano.
Piñatas and paper flowers : holidays of the Americas in English and Spanish = Pinatas y flores de papel : fiestas de las Americas en inglés y español.
Compiled by Mariano Velazquez de la Cadena, with Edward Gray and Juan L. Iribas.
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Alcala Antonio Jose De Sucre Y De 1795 1830 -- See --Sucre, Antonio José de, 1795-1830
Alcala Galiano Juan Valera Y 1824 1905 -- See --Valera, Juan, 1824-1905
Alcala Iberri Ma Del Socorro Maria Del Socorro -- See --Alcalá Iberri, Socorro
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 Juan
Juan is the Spanish form of a Hebrew name, Yohanan, Johanan, or Yochanan.
Juan was occasionally used in English-speaking countries due to the influence of Lord Byron’s Don Juan and Mozart’s opera of the same name (at this time it was usually mispronounced “joo-awn”).
John of Saint Thomas (Spanish: Juan de Santo Tomás) (1589-1644):
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 Find in a Library: Juan Valera. (Un liberal entre dos fuegos).
Publisher: [Madrid] E.P.E.S.A. Subjects: Valera, Juan, -- 1824-1905.
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 18 April History: This Date
1998 Los jefes de Estado y de Gobierno de 34 países del continente americano, a excepción de Cuba, se reúnen en Santiago de Chile en la II Cumbre de las Américas.
The threat of an attack that could wipe out coast-to-coast communications was an important factor motivating the Defense Department's ARPA project, which created the foundation for the Internet.
1867 Luis Millet i Paget, músico y escritor catalán.
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 Definition of Valera y Alcala Galiano - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
One entry found for Valera y Alcalá Galiano.
Juan 1824-1905 Spanish writer & statesman; author of novels marked by deep psychological analysis of their characters, especially women
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1916 Enrique y Campina Granados, Sp opera composer (Goyescas), drowns at 48
1905 Juan Valera bon Alcala Galiano, Sp author (Pepita Jimenez), dies at 80
1550 Juan de Dios, Port/Sp saint (Brothers of Mercy), dies at 55
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