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Este nuevo volumen ofrece ensayos de especialistas anglsfonos sobre el Libro de Buen Amor, obra monumental del siglo XIV. El volumen responde a la necesidad de un enfoque actualizado que examina el estado de las cuestiones principales (como son la de la autorma y su contexto, la mitrica, las tradiciones manuscrita e impresa, el uso de exempla y proverbios, y las aproximaciones tesricas al Libro) y sus implicaciones para una lectura del Libro. ...

This new Companion to Magical Realism provides an assessment of the world-wide impact of a movement which was incubated in Germany, flourished in Latin America and then spread to the rest of the world. It provides a set of up-to-date assessments of the work of writers traditionally associated with magical realism such as Gabriel Garcma Marquez (in particular his recently published memoirs), Alejo Carpentier, Miguel ngel Asturias, Juan Rulfo, I...

With such figures as Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel ngel Asturias and Gabriel Garcia Marquez (both the latter Nobel Prizewinners) Spanish American fiction is now unquestionably an integral part of the mainstream of Western literature. This book draws on the most recent research in describing the origins and development of narrative in Spanish America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tracing the pattern from Romanticism and Realism, th...

Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa claimed that he did not evolve, but rather travelled. This book provides a state of the art panorama of Pessoa's literary travels, particularly in the English-speaking world. Its eighteen short, jargon-free essays were written by the most distinguished Pessoa scholars across the globe. They explore the influence on Pessoa's thinking of such writers as Whitman and Shakespeare, as well as his creative dialogues ...

esta biografia literaria habla del viaje intelectual de Benitez Rojo desde sus exordios en el mundo intelectual cubano en 1967 hasta su muerte en Amherst, Massachusetts, en 2005. This literary biography tells Benitez Rojo's journey from his emergence in the Cuban intellectual world in 1967 to his death in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2005.

The supplement to the 1976 original bibliography reflects the expanding scope of modern Chretien studies, including items from around the world, with the assistance of an international team of scholars.

A thorough examination of the making of, transmission, and scholarly engagement with one of the most famous poems in the Spanish language.

Post-Civil War novelist Marse subverts iconic Catholic imagery in ironic sub-textual commentary on political ideology.

This comparative study examines the strategies of re-politicization and socialization employed in contemporary Argentine film and theatre produced in the wake of the 1976-83 dictatorship. It focuses on the socio-political facets of performance across a range of films and dramatic compositions.

This new annotated bibliography of the Alfonso X poetic corpus covers the manuscripts, all the poems, and the 1, 600 miniatures and the music of the Cantigas de Santa Maria, the acclaimed "aesthetic Bible of the thirteenth century".

A thoroughly researched and documented study of Catalan literature under the Franco regime, focussed on several key post-Civil War novels and their authors.

The first full length study in English of a prolific Brazilian writer engaged with the discourses of women's rights, education, slavery, literary Indianism, political ideology and nation-building.

This volume offers a critical study of a representative selection of Latin American women writers who have made major contributions to all literary genres and represent a wide range of literary perspectives and styles.

This volume is an innovative exploration of cultural heritage through museum studies, metacriticism and literary criticism.

This book explores crucial moments in the emergence of feminine culture in Colombia through the work of ground-breaking artist Debora Arango, best-selling novelist Laura Restrepo, and three generations of documentary filmmakers.

First comprehensive survey of Isabel de Villena (Sor Isabel), the fifteenth-century Spanish nun and writer.

The colonial wars in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau in the 1960s and 1970s were Portugal's Vietnam. The novels discussed in this study, written by António Lobo Antunes, Lídia Jorge and Manuel Alegre among others, aroused passionate responses from the reading public and initiated a national debate, otherwise lacking in the contemporary press, with their systematic deconstruction of the rhetoric of patriotism and colonialism of Antón...

A listing of the latest publications on Marie de France.

Las Obras de Esquilache como pieza clave para la comprension del papel del amateurismo aristocratico en la formacion del campo literario barroco espanol.

In the thirteenth century, profound changes in Spanish society drove the invention of fresh poetic forms by the new clerical class. The term mester de clerecía (clerical ministry or service) applies to a group of narrative poems (epics, hagiography, romances) composed by university-trained clerics for the edification and entertainment of the predominantly illiterate laity. These clerics, like Gonzalo de Berceo, understood themselves as cultura...