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  • Latin American Women Dramatistsby Catherine Larson; Margarita Vargas

    Indiana University Press 1999; US$ 15.95

    "The book highlights the many possibilities of the innovative work of these dramatists, and this will, it is to be hoped, help the editors to achieve one of their other key goals: productions of the plays in English." -- Times Literary Supplement "This thoughtfully crafted book with its insightful and informative studies elucidates an overlooked, essential component of the Latin American literary canon." -- Choice Contributors discuss 15 works of Latin-American playwrights, delineate the artistic lives of women dramatists of the last half of the twentieth century -- from countries as diverse as Argentina, Brazil,... more...

  • Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literatureby Daniel Balderston; Mike Gonzalez

    Routledge 2004; US$ 95.00

    Written by a team of international contributors this work contains more than 200 entries on all aspects of literature. It will be invaluable for those studying Latin American and/or Caribbean literature and the Spanish/Portuguese languages. more...

  • Encyclopedia of Latin American Literatureby Verity Smith

    Fitzroy Dearborn 1997; US$ 230.00

    A comprehensive, encyclopedic guide to the authors, works, and topics crucial to the literature of Central and South America and the Caribbean, the Encyclopedia includes over 400 entries written by experts in the field. more...

  • The Family in Crisis in Late Nineteenth-Century French Fictionby Nicholas White; Michael Sheringham

    Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 40.00

    Nicholas White examines how novels represent the crisis in 'family values' in late nineteenth-century France. A wide cultural perspective informs close readings of tales of adultery, illegitimacy, incest and divorce by popular novelists such as Zola and Maupassant as well as by hitherto neglected figures of the period. more...

  • The Art of Humour in the Teatro Breve and Comedias of Calderón de la Barcaby Ted L. L. Bergman

    Boydell & Brewer 2003; US$ 95.00

    This book explores the relationship between Calderón's often serious comedias and his overwhelmingly funny teatro breve, consisting of mojigangas, entremeses and jácaras. Calderón was able to satisfy his audience's desire for laughter and novelty while injecting blatant parody and satire into the larger and more varied context of the comedia. more...

  • The Crucified Mind by Robert Havard

    Boydell & Brewer 2001; US$ 85.00

    Why is the Spanish input to Surrealism so distinctive and strong? What do such renowned figures as Dalí, Buńuel, Lorca, Aleixandre and Alberti have in common? This book untangles the issue of Surrealism in Spain by focusing on a consistent feature in Spanish avant-garde poetry, art and film of the late twenties and thirties: its supersaturation in religion. more...

  • Rewriting the Italian Novella in Counter-Reformation Spainby Carmen R. Rabell

    Boydell & Brewer 2003; US$ 85.00

    As they reshaped the Italian novella during the Counter-Reformation, Spanish narrators labelled their texts as exemplary. However, critics have usually agreed that there is a contradiction between the morals preached in the narrative frames, prologues and sententiae of Spanish novellas and the content of the plots. Rabell sees this ambiguity as a result of the use of the rhetoric of the fictitious case: Spanish novellas rewrite the Italian genre with the specific purpose of either challenging or validating the rules and regulations of Counter-Reformation Spain. more...

  • Mimesis and Empireby Barbara Fuchs; Stephen Orgel

    Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 35.00

    Explores the dynamics of imitation among early modern European powers in literary and historiographical texts from sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Spain, Italy, England, and the New World. The author considers problems of reading and literary transmission; imperial ideology and colonial identities; counterfeits and forgery; and piracy. more...

  • Narrative Mutationsby Rudyard J. Alcocer

    Routledge 2005; US$ 123.00

    In this book, Rudyard Alcocer offers a theory of Caribbean narrative, accounting for the complex interactions between scientific and literary discourses while expanding the horizons of narrative studies in general. more...

  • R.S.Thomasby Christopher Morgan

    Manchester University Press 2003; US$ 74.95

    Christopher Morgan writes with critical insight on the poet R.S. Thomas. This text recontextualizes and reinterprets the poet's themes of self, nature and the search for deity and investigates Thomas's preoccupation with the philosophical and practical implications of science and technology. more...