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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.

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

Cervantes' work closely analysed for evidence of his attitude to academic life and to conversos, and his responses to technical challenges.

Examination of staging techniques in Lope de Vega's comedies.

The first systematic study of the Aristotelian theory of anagnorisis in 16c Spanish drama.

A critique of the Chilean novelist's A House in the country,studying particularly its representation of the many-faceted concept of `authority'.

A study of the mentality of the 16c Spanish writer, Fray Luis de Leon.

A series of studies in the honour of the Portuguese scholar Louis de Sousa Rebelo, former Reader in Portuguese at King's College, London. Topics discussed range from Old Testament elements in two "Cantigas de Amigo" to the chronicler Joao de Barros and his interest in Ming China.

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

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.