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This book explores the complexity of Iberian identity and multicultural/multi-religious interactions in the Peninsula through the lens of spells, talismans, and imaginative fiction in medieval and e……続きを見る

A leading critic of contemporary Spanish poetry examines here the work of ten important poets who came to maturity in the immediate post-Civil War period and whose major works appeared between 1956 ……続きを見る

The term metafiction invaded the vocabulary of literary criticism around 1970, yet the textual strategies involved in turning fiction back onto itself can be traced through several centuries. In thi……続きを見る

This study offers an introduction to an important branch of Spanish literatureーthe romance, or ballad. Although a great many of these poems have been translated into English by various authors, the……続きを見る

Although Pedro Calderón de la Barca was one of the greatest and most prolific playwrights of Spain's Golden Age, most of his nonallegorical comediasー118 in allーhave remained unknown. Robert ter Ho……続きを見る

Se hace un estudio y análisis de las características propias del lenguaje vulgar y cómo estas tienen un claro reflejo en la que, de manera unánime, consideran que es una obra universal o inmortal. T……続きを見る

This book explores the work of Cervantes in relation to the ideas about the mind that circulated in early modern Europe and were propelled by thinkers such as Juan Luis Vives, Juan Huarte de San Jua……続きを見る

Soñando caminos explora una faceta normalmente desconocida del famoso escritor Leandro Fernández de Moratín. Hay personas que conocen a Moratín por sus obras de teatro (El sí de las niñas, La comedi……続きを見る

"Brief narratives," or medieval precursors to the modern short story, are compositions couched in the form of a tale of reasonable short length. They began with writings in Latin and, eventually, ma……続きを見る

Exploring Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality in Four Spanish Plays explores society’s influence on identity in Spanish theatrical works and discusses parallels to these works in contemporary pop……続きを見る

In this wide-ranging study E. Michael Gerli shows how Cervantes and his contemporaries ceaselessly imitated one anotherーglossing works, dismembering and reconstructing them, writing for and against……続きを見る

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Novels of Charlotte Brontë" contains all 5 novels in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Jane E……続きを見る

The time period of 1990-2010 marks a significant moment in Spanish literary publishing that emphasized a new focus on Africa and African voices and signaled the beginning of a publishing boom of His……続きを見る

Of the great epic poets in the Western tradition, Luis Vaz de Camões (c. 1524- 1580) remains perhaps the least known outside his native Portugal, and his influence on literature in English has not b……続きを見る

La sociedad globalizada se caracteriza cada vez más por los cruces de fronteras no solo geopolíticas sino también simbólicas, culturales, identitarias, lingüísticas o disciplinarias. Cruces de front……続きを見る

De acuerdo con una de las líneas preferentes en la investigación cervantista del autor, y en sintonía con sus aportaciones en Inspiración y pretexto, publicado en esta misma colección en 2005, este ……続きを見る

Jorge de Montemayor's great pastoral novel La Diana (1559), one of the fountainheads of Spanish Renaissance literature, has often been regarded as a work written merely to amuse an effete courtly wo……続きを見る

Distinguishing figural or typological allegoryーa method adapted from the Christian exegesis of the Old Testamentーfrom the broader Hellenistic concept of allegory, this book examines its use in rep……続きを見る

Dans 'Un chapitre inédit de Don Quichotte', Jules Claretie propose une exploration fascinante de l'univers de Cervantès, en y ajoutant sa propre touche de créativité. Ce texte, qui s'inscrit dans le……続きを見る

Jorge Manrique was the greatest poet of fifteenth-century Castile and one of the three or four greatest in Spanish literature. Frank A. Domínguez offers here an introduction to Manrique's poetry and……続きを見る

Twentieth-century Spanish poetry has received comparatively little attention from critics writing in English. Andrew Debicki now presents the first English-language history published in the United S……続きを見る

In the symbolic language of ballads, a lady's costly dress tells of the beauty of the body beneath it or of the wearer's happiness; a lost hawk or hound foreshadows the hunter's fate long before the……続きを見る

The relationship between the United States and Spain evolved rapidly over the course of the nineteenth century, culminating in hostility during the Spanish–American War. However, scholarship on lite……続きを見る

Along with Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco, Fernando Arrabal is a major exponent of the Theater of the Absurd. In this study Arrabal's plays are seen as a contemporary expression of a festive form……続きを見る

Golden Age departures in historiography and theory of history in some ways prepared the ground for modern historical methods and ideas about historical factuality. At the same time, they fed into th……続きを見る

The Book of the Knight Zifar (or Cifar), Spain's first novel of chivalry, is the tale of a virtuous but unfortunate knight who has fallen from grace and must seek redemption through suffering and go……続きを見る

The sheer volume of prolific Spanish novelist and playwright Benito Pérez Galdós's literary production has rendered overall assessment of his body of work all but impossible. The later volumes in hi……続きを見る

This volume is a sequel to Four Comedies of Calderón (1980), which was hailed by reviewers as superb, faithful, and actable. The three comedies in the present volume are generally counted among Cald……続きを見る

Las Siete Partidas es uno de los textos del medievo castellano más fascinantes. En algunos aspectos, aún mantiene su vigencia y ha atraído la atención de investigadores de todo el mundo. Es una obra……続きを見る

Los trabajos que componen este volumen se aúnan bajo la metodología de redes de sociabilidad, que indaga en los mecanismos socioliterarios por los que las autoras españolas de la primera Edad Modern……続きを見る