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D.J. Conlon examines Guy of Warwick,, a popular thirteenth century Saxon legend adapted into Anglo-French prose in the fourteenth century.

Traces the history of Mexican literary academies and societies from the sixteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

Luis de Lucena (1465-1530) was a Spanish writer whose Repeticion de Amores y Arte de Ajedrez con 101 Juegos de Partido is the oldest surviving book on the game of chess. Jacob Ornstein provides an annotated introduction in two parts that gives a general overview of the text and its author, and discusses the work in relation to the Feminist debates.

Examines the fictional works of the French writer Vital d'Audiguier (1565-1624), whose novels provide insight into the changes of the French reading public's taste in fiction during the first quarter of the seventeenth century.

Ramon Perez de Ayala's (1880-1962) was a Spanish author of poetry, literary essays, criticism, novels, and short stories. This study analyses how de Ayala adapted conceptual topics into his fiction and analyzes the central themes of his novels.

Examines the many ways in which seventeenth-century Spanish authors manipulated the expected outcomes of secular literature to create religiously motivated endings prompted by some kind of conversion.

Argues that the Escorial codex usually published and studied as nine separate saints' lives and romances is in fact a unified and organized whole. Thomas Spaccarelli shows how the codex is intimately related to the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela and to the religious, literary, and artistic traditions associated with it.

Investigates three examples of the turn-of-the-century essay in Spain and Latin America: Angel Ganivet's Idearium espanol, Jose Enrique Rodo's Ariel, and Alcides Arguedas's Pueblo enfermo. Michael Aronna traces the reactions of these thinkers to the economic, cultural, social, and political challenges of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

In an examination of eyewitness travel writing in thirteenth- through sixteenth-century France, Andrea Frisch studies the figure of the witness at a historical juncture and in a cultural context in which that figure is generally thought to have begun to assume a recognizably modern form and function.

Written in Spanish, this book explores the relationship between dramatic texts and their cinematic adaptations. It examines the transposition of form and ideology in film versions of 20th-century plays by writers such as Carlos Arniches, Federico Garcia Lorca and Antonio Buero Vallejo.

En el largo y sinuoso proceso que condujo a la publicacion de La Florida del Inca (Lisboa, 1605) podemos suponer la existencia de varios pre-textos: copias manuscritas de versiones preliminares o parciales.

An encompassing study of oralitures - multilayered cultural knowledge shared through the power of orality - and written literatures by authors from Colombia and other regions in the hemisphere who self-identify as Indigenous.

Patricios en contienda explora las maneras en que los cuadros de costumbres fueron usados en Colombia, Ecuador y Venezuela para nacionalizar poblaciones heterogeneas y producir pueblos nacionales para estos tres paises tras la disolucion de la llamada Gran Colombia (1819-1831).

How writers respond to a cosmology in evolution in the sixteenth century and how literature and space implicate each other are the guiding issues of this volume in which sixteen authors explore the topic of space in its multiform incarnations and representations.