Tales of the Alhambra

Irving, Washington

Moorish Granada Legends, Andalusian Travel Sketches, and Romantic Visions of Spain

22,60 €

ISBN: 9788027383054

Breite: 15,2 cm

Höhe: 22,9 cm

Gewicht: 644 g

Produktinformationen "Tales of the Alhambra"

Tales of the Alhambra is Washington Irving's enchanting hybrid of travel sketch, historical meditation, and romantic legend, inspired by his residence in the Moorish palace-fortress overlooking Granada. Blending antiquarian curiosity with the graceful prose of the nineteenth-century sketch tradition, Irving gathers tales of vanished kings, hidden treasure, enchanted chambers, and local storytellers into a work poised between history and fantasy. Its literary context lies in Romanticism's fascination with ruins, memory, medievalism, and the exoticized remains of Islamic Spain. Irving, already celebrated for The Sketch Book and its enduring tales of American folklore, wrote from a cosmopolitan perspective shaped by long residence in Europe and diplomatic service in Spain. His scholarly interest in Spanish history, including his writings on Columbus and the conquest of Granada, informs the volume's atmosphere of cultivated nostalgia. Yet his temperament as a genial essayist and storyteller gives the book warmth, irony, and narrative ease. Readers drawn to literary travel writing, Romantic folklore, or the cultural palimpsest of Andalusia will find Tales of the Alhambra especially rewarding. It is best approached not as strict history, but as a luminous imaginative reconstruction of place, where architecture, legend, and memory become inseparable.

Eigenschaften "Tales of the Alhambra"

Format:	Taschenbuch / Softcover
Thema/BIC:	Reisen und Urlaub
Verlag:	e-artnow

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