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Did Spain fall into decline or flourish in the seventeenth century?

An exploration of Spanish writer Carmen Martín Gaite's religious outlook through the inner journeys of five female characters.

A celebrity in his own day, who gave lectures dressed as Napoleon or seated on the back of an elephant, Ramón Gómez de la Serna is the most representative writer of the interwar Spanish avant-garde.

The essays in this volume cover lyric, hagiography, clerical verse narrative, frontier balladry, historical and codicological studies, and include the draft of an unpublished essay found amongst Professor Deyermond's papers.Professor Alan Deyermond was one of the leading British Hispanists of the last fifty years, whose work had a formative influence on medieval Hispanic studies around the world. There were several tributes to his work published during his lifetime, and it is fitting that this one, in his memory, should be produced by Tamesis, the publishing house that he helped establish and to which he contributed so much as author and editor right up to his death. The contributors to this volume are some of Professor Deyermond's former colleagues, doctoral students, and members of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar. Given Professor Deyermond's breadth of expertise, the span of the essays is appropriately wide, ranging chronologically from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century, and covering lyric, hagiography, clerical verse narrative, frontier balladry, historical and codicological studies. The volume opens with a personal memoir of her father by Ruth Deyermond, and closes with the draft of an unpublished essay found amongst Professor Deyermond's papers, and edited by his literary executor, Professor David Hook. Andrew M. Beresfordis Reader and Head of Hispanic Studies at the University of Durham. Louise M. Haywood is Reader in Medieval Iberian Literary and Cultural Studies, and Head of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Cambridge. Julian Weiss is Professor of Medieval & Early Modern Hispanic Studies at King's College London.

Eighteen short essays by the most distinguished international scholars examine Pessoa's influences, his dialogues with other writers and artistic movements, and the responses his work has generated worldwide.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 with figuresranging from decadent poets to the dark magician Aleister Crowley, and, finally, some of the ways in which he in turn has influenced others. They examine many different aspects of Pessoa's work, ranging from the poetry of the heteronyms to the haunting prose of The Book of Disquiet, from esoteric writings to personal letters, from reading notes to unpublished texts. Fernando Pessoa's Modernity Without Frontiers is a valuable introduction to this multifaceted modern master, intended for both students of modern literature and general readers interested in one of its major figures.

This collection of original essays focuses on the cross-currents and points of contact among Spain, Portugal and Latin America and their impact on the regions' film industries.This book focuses on the cross-currents and points of contact in film production among so-called Hispanic countries (Spain, Portugal and Latin America), and in particular the impact that co-production and supranational funding initiatives are having on both the film industries and the films of Latin America in the twenty-first century. Together with chapters that discuss and further develop transnational approaches to reading films in the Hispanic and Latin American context, the volume includes chapters that focus on funding initiatives, such as IBERMEDIA, that are aimed at Spain, Portugal and Latin America. An analysis of such initiatives facilitates a nuanced discussion of the range of meanings afforded to the term transnationalism: from the workings of those driven by economic imperatives, such as co-productions and 'Hispanic' film festivals, to the cultural, for example the invention of a marketable 'Latinamericaness' in Spain, or a 'Hispanic aesthetic' elsewhere. Stephanie Dennison is Reader in Brazilian Studies at the University of Leeds

Focusses on the years that Eca de Queiros lived in Paris and shows how the periodicals he conceived and edited were modeled on dozens of Victorian and American publications.Eca de Queiros' work has primarily been studied within the context of French literature and culture. This book presents a different Eca. Focusing on the years that he lived in Paris, it demonstrates how the periodicals he himselfconceived and edited were modeled on dozens of Victorian ones such as the Contemporary Review, the Review of Reviews or the Idler, as well as on some American ones such as the Forum, the Arena, and the North American Review. This book shows us an Eca who is undeniably an Anglophile, an Eca long seduced by the diversity and originality of English thought, an Eca increasingly distant from the French cultural model which had marked his education. Teresa Pinto Coelho is Full Professor and Chair in Anglo-Portuguese Studies at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Este libro muestra que Gabriel Miro no ha sido olvidado, sino que ha influido en la literatura hispanica posterior, en particular la novela de postguerra. ENGLISH VERSION This book shows that Gabriel Miro has been undervalued and how he has influenced Hispanic literature, particularly the novel of the post-Civil War period. Que ha hecho que la obra de Gabriel Miro parezca haberse relegado a un lugar marginal de la historia de la literatura espanola, con cada vez menos lectores? La pregunta no es baladi. Puede que Miro no fuera un escritor de maEn efecto, en concordancia con la estetica de vanguardia, fue un autor dificil. Pero fue una figura clave de la llamada edad de plata. Sus obras, ademas, suscitaron un interes de repercusiones mediaticas, como las polemicas eno a su retrato del clero o la presunta inmoralidad de su prosa y su heterodoxa vision de Cristo. En este libro, se sugieren las razones que han podido llevar a este injusto olvido literario y se muestra que, a pesar de todo, su obra nunca ha dejado de ser relevante, y ha influido en autores de postguerra tan importantes como Camilo Jose Cela y Francisco Umbral, en la obra narrativa de un filologo de tanto prestigio como Antonio Prieto y en otros novelistas como Pedro de Lorenzo, Antonio Zoido y Adolfo Lizon. Guillermo Lain Corona es profesor de lengua y literatura espanolas en University College London. ENGLISH VERSION Why does it seem that Gabriel Miro has been neglected as a secondary writer in the literary history of Spain, with fewer and fewer readers? Miro might not have had a mass readership, as, according to the aesthetics of the Avant-Garde, he was a difficult writer. However, hisworks attracted the kind of attention that fascinated the media, including the controversies surrounding his portrayals of the clergy, the supposed immorality of his prose and his heterodox view of Christ. This book tackles the reasons for this unfair neglect and shows that, despite it, his work was never completely overlooked. Indeed, Miro influenced relevant writers of the post-Civil War period, such as Camilo Jose Cela and Francisco Umbral, as well as the prose fiction of an important philologist like Antonio Prieto and other novelists such as Pedro de Lorenzo, Antonio Prieto and Adolfo Lizon. Guillermo Lain Corona is a Teaching Fellow in Spanish Language and Literature at University College London.

Este libro reune las ultimas investigaciones de los maximos especialistas en este importante autor del siglo XV castellano que cultivo todos los generos literarios. Contains the latest research by the most important scholars of the Castilian author Mosen Diego de Valera.Esta obra colectiva reune las ultimas investigaciones de los maximos especialistas en este importante autor del siglo XV castellano que cultivo todos los generos literarios. En este volumen monografico Guido Cappelli escrsobre Valera y el Humanismo; Federica Accorsi analiza la relacion de Valera con los judios conversos; Florence Serrano estudia la presencia de Diego de Valera en Borgona y en su literatura; Gonzalo Ponton se centra en las cartas escritas por Diego de Valera; Jesus Rodriguez Velasco analiza a Diego de Valera como artista microliterario; Cristina Moya analiza la influencia de la cronica Valeriana entre 1482 y 1567; Fernando Gomez Redondo explica las palabrasque Juan de Valdes dedica a Valera en su Dialogo de la lengua; Jose Julio Martin Romero analiza la influencia de Diego de Valera en el Nobiliario Vero de Hernan Mexia y, finalmente, Juan Luis Carriazo Rubio prueba que mosde Valera no escribio el Origen de la Casa de Guzman. Cristina Moya Garcia es profesora en la Universidad de Cordoba. This collection contains the latest research by the most important scholars of this fifteenth century Castilian author who cultivated all literary genres. Guido Cappelli writes about Valera and Humanism; Federica Accorsi analyzes the relationship between Valera and the converted Jews; Florence Serrano studies the presence of Diego de Valera in Burgundy and in its literature; Gonzalo Ponton focuses on the letters written by Diego de Valera; Jesus Rodriguez-Velasco studies Diego de Valera as micro-literary artist; Cristina Moya examines the influence of the Valeriana between 1482 and 1567; Fernando Gomez Redondo explains the words dedicated to Diego de Valera by Juan de Valdes (Dialogo de la lengua); Jose Julio Martin Romero discusses the influence of Diego de Valerain Nobiliario Vero of Hernan Mexia; and, finally Juan Luis Carriazo Rubio proves that Mosen Diego de Valera did not write the Origen de la Casa de Guzman. Cristina Moya Garcia is a profesora at the Universidad deCordoba. Contributors: Federica Accorsi, Guido Cappeli, Juan Luis Carriazo Rubio, Fernando Gomez Redondo, Jose Julio Martin Romero, Cristina Moya Garcia, Gonzalo Ponton, Jesus Rodriguez Velasco, Florence Serrano

Leading Golden Age theatre experts examine the ways that comedias have been adapted and reinvented, offering a broad performance history of the genre for scholars and practicioners alike.This volume brings together twenty-six essays from the world's leading scholars and practitioners of Spanish Golden Age theatre. Examining the startlingly wide variety of ways that Spanish comedias have been adapted, re-envisioned, and reinvented, the book makes the case that adaptation is a crucial lens for understanding the performance history of the genre. The essays cover a wide range of topics, from the early stage history of the comedia through numerous modern and contemporary case studies, as well as the transformation of the comedia into other dramatic genres, such as films, musicals, puppetry, and opera. The essays themselves are brief and accessible to non-specialists. This book will appeal not only to Golden Age scholars and students but also to theater practitioners, as well as to anyone interested in the theory and practice of adaptation. Harley Erdman is Professor of Theaterat the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Susan Paun de Garcia is Professor of Spanish at Denison University. Contributors: Sergio Adillo Rufo, Karen Berman, Robert E. Bayliss, Laurence Boswell, Bruce R.Burningham, Amaya Curieses Irarte, Rick Davis, Harley Erdman, Susan L. Fischer, Charles Victor Ganelin, Francisco Garcia Vicente, Alejandro Gonzalez Puche, Valerie Hegstrom, Kathleen Jeffs, David Johnston, Gina Kaufmann, Catherine Larson, Donald R. Larson, Barbara Mujica, Susan Paun de Garcia, Felipe B. Pedraza Jimenez, Veronika Ryjik, Jonathan Thacker, Laura L. Vidler, Duncan Wheeler, Amy Williamsen, Jason Yancey

Peral Vega explores the importance of Pierrot as a symbol of failure in matters of love in Garcia Lorca's imagery and his literary and personal life.Academic research has paid little attention to the importance of the figure of Pierrot in Garcia Lorca's imagery and, above all, in his literary and personal life. An image of marginality and failure, Pierrot was soon taken over by Spanish intellectuals of the early twentieth century as a representation of the bohemian spirit and, corresponding to his marginal status in matters of love, as a symbol of furtive desires experienced by those whose sexuality had to remain silent. Consequently, Garcia Lorca, as Pierrot, needs a mask to cover his identity, facing perpetual failure in his relentless pursuit of the other. As can be seen already from the poems, prose and plays of his youth,Garcia Lorca outlines in Pierrot his innermost self, a trend that will continue in the aforementioned series of drawings and some of his major pieces, such as El publico. Pierrot / Lorca: White Carnival of Black Desire aims, from a multidisciplinary perspective, to open new critical readings of both Garcia Lorca's work and some episodes of his life; as with, for example, his relationship with Salvador Dali, which can be presented in theatrical terms: Harlequin (Dali) / Pierrot (Garcia Lorca). Emilio Peral Vega is Associate Professor of Spanish Literature at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

The author examines the role of comedy in the novels of four key postmodern Spanish-American writers: Gustavo Sainz, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Jaime Bayly and Fernando Vallejo.An important but often overlooked function of comedy is its intrinsic relation to questions of identity. This relationship, furthermore, is connected to another traditional feature of comedy: the utopian impulse. This book analyses these functions of comedy in the novels of four key postmodern Spanish-American writers: Gustavo Sainz, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Fernando Vallejo and Jaime Bayly. Focusing on the correlation between changing concepts of identityand the hybrid cultural context of the late 20th-century, it examines the issues of individual and social identities expressed by these authors in their inscription and distortion of the comic genre as well as in their usage of different modes of comedy. It views the novels' comic aspects as symptoms of hybridity, which, according to many theorists, have brought about the dissolution of concepts, such as the self and society, and utopian modernity. Thesesymptoms are studied in tandem with the individual themes of the novels, such as gender, sexuality, class and global migration, as well as the 'post-national' question of Peruvian, Colombian and Mexican identity. PaulMcAleer is Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Hull.

A close analysis of Bunuel's and the Order of Toledo's making of iconoclastic public art.In 1923, Luis Bunuel established the Order of Toledo, a parody order of knights whose members included Salvador Dali, Garcia Lorca, and Rafael Alberti. Together, they often visited the ancient Spanish capital to stroll through itslabyrinthine streets. But these excursions on the part of Bunuel and the Brotherhood were more than simple episodes of cultural sightseeing; they were happenings, public interventions in space. This book explores the anti-artistic aspect of these activities and urban perambulations. Are these practices similar to the flanerie of the Dadaists and French Surrealists? Taking into account their liberal, Spanish context, what was new about them, and what did they mean? Does their aesthetic experimentation make for ideological radicalism? And what impact do these first steps have on Bunuel's subsequent work and his later ideological trajectory? Maria Soledad Fernandez Utrera is Associate Professor of Spanish at The University of British Columbia.

An unprecedented close textual analysis of numerous films within their contemporary cultural context.This book engages with representations of social crisis in Argentine fictional cinema between 1998 and 2005, a period when Argentina experienced a deep economic crisis that brought about significant changes in politics, culture, society and the arts. It focuses on the ways in which cinema interpreted and represented both contemporary and long-established issues within national and social discourse, while re-assessing notions of national identity, culture and class. Despite a growing body of scholarship on Argentine film published in English over the past few years, the role of more conventional films aimed at the public at large remains underexplored. By combining close textual analysis of films with the study of their cultural context, this book argues that fictional cinema at large addressed predominantly middle-class audiences, offering both reflective and divergent views on social reality that enriched the cultural arena in which Argentineans could reflect on their past, their daily life, and their relationship with the other. In this sense cinema helped Argentine people to learn to live in democracy. Santiago Oyarzabal is Associate Fellow in Hispanic Studies at the University of Warwick.

A study and edition of one of the most ignored works of early Spanish literature because of its strong sexual content, this work examines the social ideology that conditioned the reactions of people to the events it describes as well as Fernando de Rojas's masterpiece, Celestina.Since Carajicomedia was published in 1519, it has been largely ignored by critics because of its strong sexual content. The author of Carajicomedia: Parody and Satire in Early Modern Spain believes that it is a sophisticated and complex composition that provides as good a vantage point from which to examine the ideology of the period as does La Celestina. In their poems, the writers of Carajicomedia inadvertently reveal thedeep worries of the knights and nobles who opposed the regencies of Ferdinand the Catholic and Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros pending the arrival of Charles V. Carajicomedia is therefore a harbinger of the War of the Comuneros, the great popular revolt that convulsed Spain in 1520. In this book's chapters, the author examines the parodic relationship between the text of Juan de Mena's El Laberinto de Fortuna, the glosses of Hernan Nunez's Las Trezientas, and Carajicomedia. He then turns to its actual writers and their settings, and shows how their satirical attitudes towards males, females, and conversos reveals the failure of the societal mechanisms in place to control desire and miscegenation. Carajicomedia: Parody and Satire in Early Modern Spain concludes with a paleographic edition of the text and appendices that contain a modern Spanish version and its Englishtranslation, as well as examine Carajicomedia's language. Frank A. Dominguez is a professor of medieval Spanish literature and culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Un analisis detallado de la Pentagonia del autor cubano Reinaldo Arenas. An in-depth analysis of Cuban author's Reinaldo Arenas's Pentagony.Este libro presenta un analisis detallado de la Pentagonia de Reinaldo Arenas, que incluye las novelas Celestino antes del alba, El palacio de los blanquisimas mofetas, Otra vez el mar, El color del verano, y El asalto. A traves del uso de la ficcion, Arenas ofrece un testimonio de la opresion que sufrio en Cuba como escritor homosexual durante los anos sesenta y los setenta. Este libro pone de relieve el hecho de que, aunque su trabajo no cumpla con las pautas de la novela testimonial cubana, le da una voz a aquellos que fueron silenciados por el gobierno revolucionario. Los dos primeros capitulos ofrecen una vision general de los generos literarios relevantes para este estudio, como la autobiografia, la novela autobiografica y la novela testimonial, asi como del contexto socio-historico de la Pentagonia. Posteriormente, este estudio analiza en detalle cada novela por separado, y ofrece una vision dentagonia en su conjunto. Stephanie Panichelli-Batalla es profesora titular de espanol y estudios latinoamericanos en la Universidad de Aston. This book presents an in-depth analysis of Reinaldo Arenas's Pentagony, which includes the novels Singing from the Well, The Palace of the White Skunks, Farewell to the Sea, The Color of Summer, and The Assault. Through the use of fiction, Arenas offersa testimony of the oppression he suffered in Cuba during the sixties and the seventies as a homosexual writer. This book highlights the fact that although his work does not comply with the guidelines of the Cuban documentary novel, it does give a strong voice to those who were silenced by the Revolutionary government. The first two chapters provide an overview of literary genres relevant to this study, such as the autobiography, autobiographical novel anddocumentary novel, as well as the socio-historical context of the novels. Subsequently, this study looks in detail at each novel separately, offering a comprehensive overview of the Pentagony as a whole. Stephanie Panichelli-Batalla is a Lecturer of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Aston University.

Este libro trata de la atraccion de los "e;Siglos de Oro"e; por cierta doble configuracion de lo monstruoso. This is a book about the obsession of the Spanish Golden Age with the monstrous, and more specifically with the monstrous as structured into a dual image.Este libro explora la atraccion de los "e;Siglos de oro"e; por lo monstruoso. Varios trabajos recientes ya han arrojado luz sobre la abundante representacion de cuerpos excesivos que afloran en los siglos XVI y XVII y que parecen, acaso, reflejar el lenguaje inflado y deformado a traves del cual son descritos en la literatura de la epoca. Sin obviar sus logros, el libro intenta ir mas alla para mostrar que lo mas sorprendente de la monstruosidad en este periodo no es la manera en que representa un exceso barroco, sino la forma en que el exceso mismo esta estructurado en una imagen dual. Muchos de estos "e;monstruos"e; (hermafroditas, bicefalos o licantropos) ostentan un diseno geminado que permanece, de hecho, inexplicado. Que explica tal anomalia? Como contribuira esta excepcion a modelar la imagen misma de lo normal? Que tiene que ver con la configuracion del nuevo cuerpo politicones sociales iban a ser imaginadas, a partir de entonces, en el mundo occidental? Victor M. Pueyo es profesor titular en el Departamento de Espanol y Portugues de Temple University. This is a book about theobsession of the Spanish "e;Golden Age"e; with the monstrous. Recent research has begun to cast light upon the abundant representation of excessive bodies that mirrors the swelled and deformed language through which they are depictedin early modern literature. Without disregarding its representational approach, the book goes beyond this body of research by arguing that the most surprising element about monstrosity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is not the way it represents Baroque excess, but the way excess itself is structured into a dual image. Most of these "e;monsters"e; (hermaphrodites, lycanthropes, two-headed creatures) have a geminated form that remains, indeed, largely unaccounted. What explains such an anomaly? How will it shape the rule? What does it have to do with the configuration of the new body politic through which social relations were going to be imagined in the Western World? Victor Pueyo is associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Temple University.

A major contribution to our understanding of intellectual exchanges between Britain and Spain in the early twentieth century.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 argues for the importance that his relationship with England had on both his intellectual trajectory and on the culture and politics of Spain during this time. Particular attention is devoted to Maeztu's London period (1905-1919), which provides a fascinatinginsight into how Spaniards of the time perceived not just Britain but Western Europe as a whole. Against prevailing interpretations, this book argues that Maeztu's conservative evolution, and his growing Catholicism and Spanish nationalism, were a direct result of his immersion in Edwardian currents of thought. This in turn casts new light on the influence that Britain exerted over Spain during this period, and provides fresh insights into the cultural dynamics which led to the Spanish Civil War. Dr David Jimenez Torres is associate lecturer at Universidad Camilo Jose Cela.

Differences in attitudes to death and dying in two distinct social classes, the ecclesiastics and the nobility.The theory of the three estates made clear distinctions between the functions of the two estates which comprised the elite of medieval society: the oradores (ecclesiastics) and the defensores (warriors or nobility).They had different lifestyles, clothing and ways of thinking about life. With regard to death, the responses dictated by Christian theology conflicted with the demands of the defensor ideology, based on the defence of individual honour, the pursuit of fama and the display of earthly power. This book charts the progress of the dying from their preparations for death, through their 'good' or 'bad' deaths, to their burials and otherworldly fates and also analyses the responses of the bereaved. Through the use of pre-fifteenth-century texts it is possible to demonstrate that the conflict between the orador and defensor ideologies did not begin in the fifteenth century, but rather had a much older origin, and it is suggested that the conflict continued after 1500. Textual sources include the Siete partidas, wills, chronicles, religious works such as the Arte de bien morir and literary works such as Carcel de Amor and Celestina.

This book assesses Goytisolo's contribution to cultural debates in Spain since the sixties and revises the prevailing critical interpretation of his fiction, arguing that his works represent an ethical engagement with postmodernist theory rather than an illustration of it.This monograph offers two new perspectives on Spanish writer, Juan Goytisolo. First, under the themes of authorship and dissidence, it integrates his writing across several genres, providing a rounded assessment of his contribution to cultural debates in Spain since the sixties and arguing that resistance to repressive discourses characterizes his essays and autobiographies as much as his fiction. Second, it revises the prevailing critical interpretation of Goytisolo's fiction by building on four premises: that his novels are less clearly oppositional than prevailing interpretations imply; that, in order to engage with discourses of identity, he employs an idiom which,contrary to his own statements, is not a poststructuralist autonomous world of words; that a textual practice grounded in the recognizable experience of post-Civil War Spain, rather than one which seeks out the realm of pure textuality, is essential to Goytisolo's subversive political intentions; and that the autobiographical element of much of his work constitutes a more complex narrative aesthetic than has been appreciated. The book argues that ifGoytisolo's work is interpreted as an ethical engagement with postmodernist theory, rather than as an illustration of it, then certain contradictions for which he has been criticized are seen in a new and valuable light.ALISON RIBEIRO DE MENEZES is a Senior Lecturer in Spanish at University College Dublin.

El papel de las ropas en la construccion de la identidad en neuve autobiografias ficticias e historicas del Siglo de Oro.Este libro examina el significativo papel de las ropas y de los adornos corporales en la construccion de la identidad en nueve autobiografias ficticias e historicas del Siglo de Oro: Lazarillo de Tormes, Guzman de Alfarache, Guiton Onofre, El Buscon, La picara Justina , Vida del soldado espanol Miguel de Castro , Discurso de mi vida de Alonso Contreras, Vida i sucesos de la Monja Alferez de Catalina de Erauso y Comentarios del desenganado de Duque de Estrada. En estas obras las vestiduras proyectan una compleja vision externa de la personalidad que sustituye la falta de introspeccion y de descripcion del cuerpo caracteristicas de estas narraciones. Este estudio considera la representacion verbal de la ropa como un sitio donde confluyen dialecticamente el sujeto escindido en busca de unidad ficticia y de distincion personal y el individuo enfrentado a las estructuras y discursos que lo configuran. El analisis tiene en cuenta el significado filologico, economico, politico, moral y artistico del vestido en el periodo pero sigue diferentes metodologias,las teorias de Bakhtin, Mulvey, Freud, Lacan y Kristeva, para explicar la subjetividad particular de cada Vida. ENCARNACION JUAREZ ALMENDROS es profesora de espanol en la Universidad de Notre Dame.

Darwinian theory - the big idea of the nineteenth century - and its impact on the writing of Benito Perez Galdos.Despite the fact that Darwinian theory was perhaps the big idea of the nineteenth century, most critics in the past have assumed that Benito Perez Galdos would have remained unaffected by this scientific and philosophical revolution. This work contends otherwise, charting the influence of evolutionary theories on Galdos throughout his literary career. From his adaptation of the early nineteenth-century costumbristas' depiction of social species into a more sophisticated portrayal of Madrid society to his treatment of shifting social forces at a time of major socio-economic change, Galdos's outlook is shown to be deeply enmeshed in the Darwinian debate. Attention is paid not only to the hypotheses of Darwin himself, but also for instance to Ernst Haeckel's evolutionary thought, to Herbert Spencer's social Darwinism, and to the radical histology of Santiago Ramon y Cajal. Galdos and Darwin discusses how Spain's greatest novelist since Cervantes imaginatively reworked these epoch-making theories and investigates the impact of science on culture as the Spanish nation approached the twentieth century.T. E. BELL completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Nicholas Round at Sheffield University.

Un analisis de la obra poetica de Lope de Vega revela como amoldo su propio personaje "e;Lope"e; para adecuarse, generalmente con exito, a los cambios de su entorno.La obra poetica de Lope de Vega se diferencia del resto de la produccion del Siglo de Oro por una insistente singularidad: escenas y figuras de la vida del autor aparecen frecuentemente en sus poemas. La critica y el publico general ha respondido a esta caracteristica desde una perspectiva post-romantica, considerando que Lope escribio con sinceridad e inspiracion biografica, impulsado por su apasionada vida personal. En este libro se analiza lo que los post-romanticos consideran "e;sinceridad"e; como un recurso literario. Lope consigue una apariencia de sinceridad pero, de hecho, reaccionaba a los cambios de su entorno social y literario creando nuevas actitudes "e;biograficas"e;. Ensu poesia amorosa y epica, su conocida vida amorosa le proporciona fama y reconocimiento. En el Isidro, se presenta como el genio defensor de lo castellano y espanol por antonomasia. En las Rimas sacras adopta la retorica religiosa de la epoca para contrarrestar el exito de Gongora en los circulos cortesanos. Finalmente, en las Rimas de Tome de Burguillos repasa ironicamente su carrera poetica desde la perspectiva de uno. Antonio Sanchez Jimenez es profesor de espanol en Miami University, Ohio.

The complex narrative technique of one of Spain's most renowned contemporary authors.The writings of Arturo Perez-Reverte, one of Spain's most renowned contemporary authors, have been described as a minefield. This monograph examines the complexities behind the narrative technique employed in creating such a minefield, including an analysis of the role played by both male and female characters, the relevance of the past as a motif, and aspects of the role of storytelling in creating mystery where none should exist. Both Revertian novelsand journalistic writing are seen to be part of an over-all game which is played between their author and his readers. Film, too, forms part of the material reviewed as, though Perez-Reverte is not a script writer, many films have been based on his novels. The text-centred analysis concludes that the themes of interest in all Revertian output revolve around two main areas: the significance of the past, whether historical, cultural, or literary, andthe role of the written word in communicating, in rescuing and in challenging versions of that past in order to combat what Perez-Reverte terms 'dismemory'. ANNE L. WALSH lectures in Hispanic Studies at University College, Cork.

La representacion de Isabel la Catolica en el teatro del Siglo de OroEste estudio analiza la representacion de Isabel la Catolica en obras escogidas de tres notables dramaturgos del Siglo de Oro espanol (Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina y Luis Velez de Guevara). Para dicho fin, la autora se centra enlos dramaturgos y sus negociaciones, intercambios y subversion de las instituciones y autoridades de la monarquia espanola del siglo XVII, asi como tambien en la concepcion del genero sexual en la epoca. Sostieneual de Isabel (por un lado, unificadora de los reinos, bastion de la fe cristiana y depuradora del imperio, y por el otro, la fuerza motriz detras de la expulsion del pueblo judio, las conversiones forzosas y la creacion de la Inquisicion) ensombrece estos dramas, permeados por la ansiedad y la condena hacia Isabel. Se sugiere, ademas, que es la interseccion entre soberania y genero sexual, que se da en Isabel, la que expone y sostiene la fluidez y ambig&edad de la paradojica posicion de la reina como mujer-cabeza de estado, y simbolo de una monarquia que fomento la hegemonia catolico-castellana que luego sirvio de marco a la identidad nacional espanola.

A reading of women's post-war literary representations in terms of exemplarity.The effects of General Francisco Franco's authoritarian rule (1939-1975) on the production and reception of cultural texts can be gauged by the silence that now surrounds them. This is especially true of works which enjoyed considerable popularity when first published. Most of the novels in question belong to the sentimental genre known as novela rosa, whose authors-mostly women-and heroines Academe has consistently treated as literary pariahs. This volume represents the first serious effort to question the categories used to assess the value and meaning of texts previously presumed to be devoid of both. It does so by bringing to the fore the operative premise of Francoist cultural politics, wherein fictional works have the power to mould individual character and conduct. Narratives by Luisa-Maria Linares, Concha Linares-Becerra, Carmen de Icaza and Maria Mercedes Ortoll are thus examined in terms of the effects that they were expected to have on their readers, and the constraints that such expectations placed on the works' production and reception. The result is a paradox: while the study of women's bestselling novels is by definition a study of the constraints that shape them, careful reading reveals the limitations of those selfsame constraints. NINO KEBADZE is an Assistant Professor in the Hispanic Studies Department of the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Women's poetry of the Spanish early modern period.This collection of fourteen scholarly essays on women's poetry from Spain's early modern period shows that women did indeed have a Golden Age, and that they were significant cultural actors in the realms of poetic production. Thestudies of secular verse demonstrate how female poets of this period devised strategies to confront the dominant masculine poetic discourse, while the essays on sacred poetry explore the multiple manifestations of female piety andmysticism. The women's words are brought to life and modern readers helped to understand the socio-cultural, interpersonal, and aesthetic components of the poets' oeuvre. The volume, a companion to Julian Olivares' and ElizabethBoyce's revised anthology "e;Tras el espejo la musa escribe"e;: Lirica femenina de los Siglos de Oro, constitutes an authoritative critical enterprise focused on the recuperation of the female literary voice, and marks an important step forward in the battle to include women's writing as part of Spain's literary canon. Contributors: Electa Arenal, Aranzazu Borrachero Mendibil, Anne J. Cruz, Adrienne L. Martin, Rosa Navarro Duran, Julian Olivares, Inmaculada Osuna, Amanda Powell, Elizabeth Rhodes, Stacey Schlau, Lia Schwartz, Alison Weber, Judith Whitenack. JULIAN OLIVARES is Professor of Spanish at the University of Houston and editor of Caliope, Journal ofthe Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry.