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  Miguel de Unamuno - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (September 29, 1864–December 31, 1936) was an essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher from Spain.
Unamuno worked in all major genres: the essay, the novel, poetry and theatre, and, as a modernist contributed greatly to dissolving the boundaries between genres.
Unamuno's theatre is schematic; he did away with artifice and focused only on the conflicts and passions that affect the characters.
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 Miguel de Unamuno Y Jugo
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was born in Bilbao as the third of six children of Félix Unamuno, a proprietor of a bakery shop, and Salomé de Jugo, who was also his niece.
Unamuno studied in his native city at the Colegio de San Nicolás and the Instituto Vizacaíno. In 1880 he entered the University of Madrid, where he studied philosophy and letters, receiving his Ph.D. four years later.
Unamuno once stated: 'Wisdom is to science what death is to life or, if you will, wisdom is to death what science is to life.' Seeing that reason leads to despair, Unamuno concluded that one must abandon all pretence of rationalism and embrace faith.
www.philosophyprofessor.com /philosophers/miguel-de-unamuno-y-jugo.php   (900 words)

  
 The Academy of American Poets - Miguel de Unamuno
Poet, novelist, and playwright Miguel de Unamuno was born on September 29, 1864, in the Basque city of Bilbao.
Unamuno had translated the poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Giacomo Leopoardi, and their influence on his early work is clear.
Unamuno published a number of articles critical of the new government; he was exiled without his family in 1924 to the island of Fuerteventura in the Canaries.
www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/348   (615 words)

  
 Miguel de Unamuno
Unamuno was one of the foremost representatives of the movement Generation '98 (see also: Ángel Ganivet).
Unamuno's early years were deeply religious but in Madrid he started to visit the Ateneo, sometimes called the blasphemy center of the city.
General Rivera died in 1930 and Unamuno returned to the University of Salamanca, and was reelected rector in 1931.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /unamuno.htm   (1619 words)

  
 Miguel de Unamuno Article, MiguelUnamuno Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Unamuno worked in all major genres: essays, novels, poetry, and theater, and, as a modernist, contributed greatly to dissolving the boundaries between genresand creating new ones.
Unamuno's philosophy was not systematic; it was, rather, a negation of all systems and an affirmation of faith "in itself." Hedeveloped intellectually under the influence of rationalism and positivism, but during his youth he wrote articles which clearly show his sympathy forsocialism and his great concern for the situation in which he found Spain.
Unamuno was always attracted to traditional meters and, though his early poems did not rhyme, he turned to rhyme later in hislater works.
www.anoca.org /he/novel/miguel_de_unamuno.html   (945 words)

  
 Miguel de Unamuno at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Miguel de Unamuno (1864 – 1936) was a Spanish writer.
In addition to writing, Unamuno played an important role in intellectual life, serving as rector of the University of Salamanca from 1900 – 1914 and 1930 – 1936, during a period of great change and upheaval.
Unamuno was removed from his post by the government in 1914, to the protest of Spanish intellectuals, and did not return until the fall of General Primo de Rivera's dictatorship in 1930.
www.wiki.tatet.com /Miguel_de_Unamuno.html   (704 words)

  
 Unamuno, Miguel de on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Between Europe and Africa: modernity, race, and nationality in the correspondence of Miguel de Unamu...
UNAMUNO, MIGUEL DE [Unamuno, Miguel de], 1864-1936, Spanish philosophical writer, of Basque descent, b.
His criticism of the monarchy and especially of the dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera caused his removal from the university in 1920 and his exile from Spain (1924-30), but with the establishment of the republic (1931), he was reinstated as rector.
encyclopedia.infonautics.com /html/U/Unamuno.asp   (572 words)

  
 Discovering Miguel de Unamuno
Unamuno was a native of the Basque Country, and as a consequence this didn’t count in his favor.
Unamuno is well known around the world, and in case you say, "How come I haven’t heard about him?" I would just say that it may has been a lack of choices at those times that you have had the possibilities of reading different authors from different countries.
Unamuno knows what is not to be accepted; he knows how it feels to be overlooked by the so-called important and religious people of Spain.
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 Miguel de Unamuno: Niebla as a regenerational novel. - Coursework.Info
Miguel de Unamuno: Niebla as a regenerational novel.
Miguel de Unamuno is the best example of a writer that illustrates the transformation, evolution and trajectory of the Spanish novel, during the Edad de Plata.
Es una de las llamadas en Bilbao siete calles, núcleo germinal de la villa, había por los años de cuarenta y tantos una tienducha...abriendosé por una compuerta colgada del techo y que a él se enganchaba una vez abierta; una chocolatería llena de moscas [...][1] The personality, psychology and biography of the characters, and historical
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 Miguel de Unamuno: Todas las informaciones en Miguel de Unamuno de Enciclopedia-Gratuita.com
Miguel de Unamuno (Bilbao, 29 de septiembre de 1864 - Salamanca, 31 de diciembre de 1936) fue un escritor y filósofo español.
Al cabo de trece años es destituido del rectorado por sus continuos ataques a la monarquía de Alfonso XIII, aunque siguió en su cátedra de griego.
En 1924 su enfrentamiento con Miguel Primo de Rivera y su dictadura provocó que fuera desterrado a Fuerteventura (Islas Canarias).
www.enciclopedia-gratuita.com /m/mi/miguel_de_unamuno.html   (938 words)

  
 Miguel de Unamuno: Catholic atheist : religious atheism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
"Although Unamuno is obsessed by the ideas of God and immortality in his poems and essays, religion plays only a minor role in his novels.
Unamuno assumes, like Alarcón and Pereda, that religious faith gives meaning, and thus "happiness," to the lives of the simple.
Todas las religiones son verdaderas en cuanto hacen vivir espiritualmente a los pueblos que las profesan, en cuanto les consuelan de haber tenido que nacer para morir, y para cada pueblo la religión más verdadera es la suya, la que le ha hecho.
www.darkfiber.com /atheisms/atheisms/unamuno.html   (285 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Miguel de Unamuno (Philosophy, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Miguel de Unamuno[mEgel´ dA OOnAmOO´nO] Pronunciation Key, 1864–1936, Spanish philosophical writer, of Basque descent, b.
His criticism of the monarchy and especially of the dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera caused his removal from the university in 1920 and his exile from Spain (1924–30), but with the establishment of the republic (1931), he was reinstated as rector.
In his chief work, Del sentimiento trAgico de la vida en los hombres y los pueblos (1913; Bollingen Series tr., The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations, 1968), he expresses his highly individualistic philosophy : one of faith in faith itself, not in any affirmation or denial of faith.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/U/Unamuno.html   (387 words)

  
 The Project Gutenberg eBook of TRAGIC SENSE OF LIFE, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO.
For Unamuno, a poem or a novel (and he holds that a novel is but a poem) is the outpouring of a man's passion, the overflow of the heart which cannot help itself and lets go.
Unamuno is too genuine a representative of the spiritual and masculine variety of Spanish genius, ever impervious to French, and generally, to intellectual, influences, to be affected by the esthetic excellence of this art.
Unamuno's characters may be schematized, stripped of their complexities, reduced to the mainspring of their nature; they may, moreover, reveal mainsprings made of the same steel.
www.gutenberg.org /files/14636/14636-h/14636-h.htm   (18120 words)

  
 Miguel de Unamuno, a Starter Course   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Miguel de Unamuno was passionately concerned about life, death, and immortality.
Miguel de Unamuno lived just about all of his life in Salamanca, Spain.
This was the first page about Unamuno on the web and includes sections in both English and Spanish.
www.river.org /~dhawk/unamuno.html   (104 words)

  
 Miguel de Unamuno   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Writer and independent thinker, original mind and rector of the University of Salamanca, Unamuno consequently suffered a heart attack and was dead within a week.
And they are similar in their acceptance of violence in quelling dissenting voices, confident they know exactly the bold course which need be charted and the enemies to be destroyed.
Milan-Astray will be remembered as a flunky of a soldier/dictator who "conquered" his own populace and Unamuno as a voice in the darkness who said things that still resonate as strongly today as when he first said them.
www.rjgeib.com /heroes/unamuno/unamuno.html   (1769 words)

  
 SPAIN: Miguel de Unamuno   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) is one of Spain's most important modern authors.
Raised a Catholic, he retained a passionate religiosity, as is evident in The Tragic Sense of Life (1913).
Unamuno disliked Madrid, but he spent a summer at the Residencia de Estudiantes.
www.stanford.edu /group/wais/Spain/spain_migueldeunamuno2503.html   (229 words)

  
 Famous Poets: Miguel de Unamuno :: Poetry Guide
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (September 29, 1864 — December 31, 1936) was a Spanish writer and philosopher.
- Niebla (Fog) (1914), one of Unamuno's key works, which he called a nivola to distinguish it from the supposedly fixed form of the novel ("novela" in Spanish).
By symbolizing passion and creating a theater austere both in word and presentation, Unamuno's theater opened the way for the rennaisance of Spanish theater undertaken by Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Azorín, and, later, Federico García Lorca.
www.lovelandia.com /archive/008676.html   (1117 words)

  
 Miguel de Unamuno - Picture - MSN Encarta
Miguel de Unamuno - Picture - MSN Encarta
Author of philosophical works that exerted a powerful influence on 20th-century thought, Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno is often considered a precursor to existentialists such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus.
Spanish Literature; Spain; Unamuno y Jugo, Miguel de
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 Philosophical Dictionary: Ubermensch-Utilitarianism
}, Unamuno described human existence as torn between the irrational hope for immortality and the rational expectation of death.
Since faith can never outweigh reason, Unamuno supposed, the best we can achieve is a life of authentic struggle with the human predicament.
Mental activity of which the person engaging in it is not aware; hence a presumed source of unknown internal influences over the conduct of human agent.
www.philosophypages.com /dy/u.htm   (844 words)

  
 Famous Hispanics: MIguel de Unamuno
The leader of the Generation of '98, a group of the most distinguished literary figures of Spain at the turn of the century, Unamuno is an extraordinary intellectual of European and international projection, sharing with José Ortega y Gasset the position of chief Spanish philosopher of his time.
An erudite person familiar with the most important cultural and philosophical figures, past and present (he learned Danish in order to read Kierkegaard), Unamuno was himself an insightful thinker.
Another of his novels, Niebla (Fog), 1914, a Kierkegaardian exploration of man's existential reality, or lack thereof, contains a famous passage in which the protagonist confronts his author, Unamuno, to plead his own case when he realizes that the latter is planning to let him die.
coloquio.com /famosos/unamuno.htm   (185 words)

  
 Miguel de Unamuno - Wikiquote
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936), Spanish philosopher and writer
"La filosofía responde a la necesidad de hacernos una concepción unitaria y total del mundo y de la vida."
"Procuremos más ser padres de nuestro porvenir que hijos de nuestro pasado."
en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Miguel_de_Unamuno   (397 words)

  
 SP2: Miguel de Unamuno
PLEASE NOTE that the set text for Unamuno is now Tres novelas ejemplares y un prólogo.
A site with a biography of Unamuno, pictures of him, and extracts from some of his essays
A short piece on the circumstances surrounding the death of Unamuno
www.mml.cam.ac.uk /Spanish/SP2/unamuno?printer   (136 words)

  
 La BaNDa " Miguel De Unamuno"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Es un espacio, donde podran econtrar informacion, sobre este grupo de Ex-Alumnos, de la Generacion 2000-2002, y muchas cosas...
encontraran fotos, y varios comentarios acerca de esta gente.
Anyone may view and become a member of this group without the permission of the manager.
groups.msn.com /LaBaNDaMiguelDeUnamuno/settings   (88 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Miguel De Unamuno (Serie El Escritor y la crítica): Books: Antonio Sanchez   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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Miguel De Unamuno (Serie El Escritor y la crítica) (Paperback)
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 Xlibris.Com Bookstore
As the title suggests, the book is an attempt to systematically present the appearance of Miguel de Unamuno’s work and have a preliminary partial evaluation of the variety of studies about him that are scattered in books, magazines, and newspapers, as a guide to researchers of the Unamuniana.
It also includes Unamuno’s works, collections and selections, letters, short stories, and other reference materials.
Leticia Gossdenovich Feldman was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
www2.xlibris.com /bookstore/bookdisplay.asp?bookid=31805   (324 words)

  
 Colegio Unamuno spanish courses in spain
Welcome to the COLEGIO UNAMUNO, Spanish Language School in Salamanca
Our new offer includes Spanish lessons with courses of the behaviour and courses for the communitarian work.
We guarantee you that to study Spanish abroad with the Colegio Unamuno will be the best way to immerse this language.
www.colegiounamuno.es   (144 words)

  
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