Winner of the 2015 Publication Prize awarded by the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland Celestina by Fernando de Rojas is a canonical work of late medieval Spanish literature and o
Ramiro de Maeztu was one of the most influential Spanish intellectuals of the early twentieth century, as well as the first foreign correspondent for the Spanish press to be based in London. This book
Colvin studies the evolution of Fado music as the soundtrack to the Portuguese talkie. He analyzes the most successful Portuguese films of the first two decades of the Estado Novo era to understand ho
TEMPORARY Comic writing has long been an important feature of the Spanish-American literary tradition. Despite the ubiquity and importance of this trend, however, few critics have paid it much attenti
Academic research has paid almost no attention to the importance of Pierrot in Garcia Lorca's imagery and, above all, in his literary and personal life. An image of marginality and failure, Pierrot wa
Runner-up for the 2014 Publication Prize awarded by the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland This book presents an original historiography on fifty years of Uruguayan cinema. It is
TEMPORARY The Order of Toledo was founded by Luis Buñuel, the Spanish surrealist film-maker, in 1923, when he was a student in Madrid. Along with a number of his peers---Salvador Dalí, Federco García
Este libro explora la representacion de la mujer moderna en los ensayos y la ficcion de Federica Montseny (1905-1994), lider anarquista espanola de gran prominencia en las decadas de 1920 y 1930. Se e
The fourteen essays of this volume engage in distinct ways with the matter of motion in early modern Spanish poetics, without limiting the dialectic of stasis and movement to any single sphere or mani
This book analyses the verse of representative poets of the Hispanic Baroque to demonstrate that they occupy a de-familiarised Arcadia that is nonetheless inexorably connected to the classical origins
Runner-up for the the 2015 Publication Prize awarded by the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland and the Spanish Embassy Castilian romances of chivalry were the dominant form of fic
Co-Winner of the 2014 Publication Prize awarded by the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland Kerr traces the processes and paradoxes at work in the late parodic poetry of Luis de G&
The Chilean artist Violeta Parra (1917 - 1967) is a cultural icon in Latin America. Parra is best known as the progenitor of the Latin American New Song but she also carried out cultural research, wro
El libro analiza la relacion entre vanguardia y humorismo grafico en dos periodos historicos criticos: la Guerra Civil Espanola (1936-1939) y los primeros anos de la Revolucion Cubana (1959-1961). Se
Ramon Llull (1232-1316) is the author of a voluminous body of philosophical and theological works. One of the characteristics which best defines his individuality is the relation he established with v
Juan Rulfo, 1917-1986, is one of the three greatest writers of twentieth-century Mexico together with Carlos Fuentes and Octavio Paz. A Companion to Juan Rulfo is the most comprehensive modern study o
Co-Winner of the 2014 Publication Prize of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland Esta monografia revela la importancia de las mujeres en la politica y cultura de la corte espanola
Second in its fame only to the Lusiads within Camões's large body of poetry, "Sôbolos rios" ("Babylon and Zion") in redondilhas is a philosophically ambitious masterwork of Christian humanis
As a novelist, dramatist, essayist, poet and public intellectual, Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) was a strikingly energetic and prolific writer, and a towering figure in twentieth-century Spanish cultu
Este libro presenta un análisis detallado de la Pentagonía de Reinaldo Arenas, que incluye las novelas Celestino antes del alba, El palacio de los blanquísimas mofetas, Otra vez el mar, El color del v
