Bøker i Monografias A-serien

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.

One of the major Latin American writers of the twentieth century.

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.

A refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession.

Valle-Inclan considered as actor, director and playwright, with bibliography of his plays.

Essays on motifs employed in women's novels from Spain and Latin America between 1936 and the present.

A reappraisal of Lope's literary career, bringing out the complexities of his dramatic texts.

New readings of 20th-century literary cinematic texts are presented here in historical context, informed by cultural theory.

How were Moroccan Muslim and Jewish cultures depicted in Spanish literature, journalism, and photography during the Rif War (1909-27) and what did this portrayal reveal about conflicting visions of Spanish identity?

In the last two decades, the glorification of sewing - whether involving needlework, tailoring, or fashion design - has thrived in Latin American and Iberian cultural works, particularly literature.

This book aims to develop a broader view of the trajectory of Hispanic modernity, tracing a motif of recurring impasse, first seen in peninsular Baroque texts and continuing into Latin American colonial and modern literature.

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

Memory and mourning in Colombia.

Versiones literarias de los tormentos inquisitoriales

Carpentier was one of the first novelists to introduce a version of magical realism and the neo-baroque into Latin American fiction.

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

The master of the realist novel of nineteenth-century Spain, Benito Perez Galdos, is the subject of these new studies.

A study which highights the ironic intrusion of novelistic elements in Persiles y Sigismunda, subverting its categorization as pure romance fiction.

A study of the work of the Spanish poet Luis Cernuda (1902-1963).

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.