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Offers alternative insights into the complex relationship between politics and intelligentsia in revolutionary Cuba.

César Vallejo paradoxically discounted the modernist significance of his avant-garde masterpiece, Trilce, published in 1922. Yet, in these poems, the renowned Peruvian writer played with the Spanish language.

A close examination of the representation of criminals in the understudied theatrical genres of the jacara and comedias de valentones.

An examination of typology about place in relation to the Virgin Mary.

A comprehensive inquiry into the literary representation of the convulsive social and political changes introduced by the Bolivarian Revolution.

La primera monografia academica en ocuparse de la historia del icono cleopatrico en la cultura espanola. The first thorough study of the history of the Cleopatra icon in Spanish culture.

An assessment of the life, work and reputation of Spain's leading Golden Age dramatist

Examines the importance of intertextuality, in particular hypertextuality, in the poetics of Castilian romances of chivalry.

Explores Celestina's role as a key interlocutor in European literature and thought in the context of debates about the human condition.

A careful re-evaluation of pastoral poetics in the early modern Hispanic literature of Spain and Latin America.

Terukina ofrece una nueva biografia de Bernardo de Balbuena y analiza la compleja matriz interdisciplinaria de Grandeza mexicana (1604). Terukina offers an updated biography of Bernardo de Balbuena and analyzes the complex interdisciplinary matrix within which Grandeza mexicana (1604) is articulated.

Argues for Ocampo's multifaceted development of ambiguity in various media and genres on the levels of language, plot and gender.

A comprehensive study of the Mexican writer considered one of the finest novelists and short-story writers in 20th-century Latin America.

Surveys the thought and literary work of a towering figure in twentieth-century Spanish cultural and political life.

A compelling account of the role of Fado and the fadista in Portuguese film and the wider culture.

Domus offers a novel analysis of literary representations of homes and urban dwellings in early modern Spain.

A history of Latin American cinema, with detailed analysis of the twenty-five best films.

The fourteen essays of this volume engage in distinct ways with the matter of motion in early modern Spanish poetics. Los catorce ensayos de este volumen conectan de una manera perceptible con el tema del movimiento enla poesia espanola del siglo de oro

Shows how the experience of violence in Argentina shed light on a new sense of "being together" that goes beyond bloodline ties.

A comprehensive examination of the full range of Carmen Martin Gaite's work.

Reconstructs through testimonial literature the repression of women during the Franco years and recovers the writings of some of the forgotten post-war women novelists.

Challenges the view that that the Moriscos of Spain made little or no attempt to assimilate to the majority Christian culture around them, and that this led to their expulsion between 1609 and 1614.

The author analyses six novels of the "boom" in Cuban fiction of the 1990s that subvert homogenized views of Cuban identity.

This Companion offers an overview and assessment of Mario Vargas Llosa's large body of work, tracing his development as a writer and intellectual in his essays, critical studies, journalism, and theatrical works, but above all in his novels.

An essential chronological framework for students of Portuguese literature.

Seminal studies of Spain's greatest dramatist on his fourth centenary.

A study of the cultural mechanisms in early modern Spain that led to the translation, imitation and selective adoption of the values embodied by the Italian Renaissance.

An overview of the issues and critical debates in the field of Women's Studies within the area of peninsular Hispanism.

This edited volume of fourteen specially commissioned essays written from a variety of critical perspectives by leading Cervantine scholars seeks to provide an overview of Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares which will be of interest to a broad academic readership.

Lorca, icon and polymath in all his manifestations.