Books in the Cambridge Iberian and Latin American Studies series

This clearly argued study, structuralist in approach and sensitive to nuances of style and language, will appeal to students of modern critical theory and comparative literature as well as to Hispanists.

This title gives an interpretation of the reception of the new world by the old. It is an in-depth study of the pre-Enlightenment methods by which Europeans attempted to describe and classify the American Indian and his society. Key terms such as "barbarian", and "civil" are examined.

Originally published in 1988, this book offers an important insight into the so-called 'martyrdom movement' that occurred in Cordoba in the 850s. It includes a biographical treatment of the ninth-century Cordoban priest Eulogius, who witnessed and recorded the martyrdoms of over forty Christians at the hands of Muslim authorities.

Julio Cortazar is one of the best-known successful Latin American writers. His work has been widely translated and this 1980 book is a clear and detailed study of his four major novels. All quotations from the Spanish have been translated to make this book available to the general reader as well as students of literature.

This volume of essays constitutes a critical reappraisal of a front-rank world author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Its principal objective is to reflect the breadth and variety of critical approaches to literature applied to a single corpus of writing; here, the major novels (including Love in the Times of Cholera, 1986) and a selection of his short fiction are considered.

This book examines the Spanish response, military, economic and social, to the anti-imperial revolutions of Latin America in the early nineteenth century. History has for the most part concentrated on the heroic careers of the great liberators of America: but what did Spaniards themselves think of Simon Bolivar and his fellow revolutionaries?

This is a full-length study in English of the Spanish dramatist Ramon del Valle-Inclan (1866-1936). Written for a theatre of his imagination, these works reveal an early attempt to wean Spanish drama from representational naturalism by the use of cinematic techniques and a heightened dramatic language reflecting broad cultural identities.

Fray Luis de Leon (1527-91) is known chiefly as the author of some of the finest poetry of the Spanish Golden Age, but he also wrote important prose works in both Latin and Spanish, and produced eloquent translations into Spanish of biblical and classical texts. Colin Thompson looks afresh at Fray Luis's most famous poems and prose works.

Between 1964 and 1971, the Mexican mural painter David Alfaro Siqueiros produced The March of Humanity on Earth and Toward the Cosmos in Mexico City, his last major project and the largest mural in the world. This illustrated book mounts a careful study of the painting, which it sees as marking the end of the Mexican mural movement.

When first published Professor Rico's book broke new ground by analysing historically and critically the form of the picaresque. Rico illuminates the point of view of the narrator in these novels, showing how it becomes the unifying element in a break with the picaresque traditions.

At the end of the nineteenth century Emilia Pardo Bazan was Spain's leading woman novelist and short story writer, also a critic, journalist and fierce campaigner for women's rights. This book examines Pardo Bazan's growth into maturity as a novelist during the late 1880s and the 1890s.

In this 1991 book, Professor Freedman examines how and why, between 1000 and 1300, free peasants became progressively tied to their landlords as serfs, and describes how servitude was eventually weakened and abolished as a result of the most successful peasants' war of the Middle Ages (1462-86).

This study of the Comentarios is original both in adopting the perspective of discourse analysis and in its interdisciplinary approach.

The Frenchman Juan de Grimaldi was instrumental in the development of the Spanish theatre in the 1820s and 30s, at a time when censorship, repression, and economic chaos had left it in a state of stagnation.

This is the first thorough study of Calderon in comparison with other important dramatists of the period. Cascardi studies Calderon's paradoxical engagement with illusion in its philosophical guise as scepticism. He shows on the one hand Calderon's moral will to reject illusion and on the other his theatrical need to embrace it.

In the twelfth century, curia regis was the name given to the assemblies in England, France and the kingdoms of Spain, which helped the monarch to govern. This book analyses the composition and function of these assemblies in Leon and Castile, two kingdoms which were united under one monarch from 1072 until 1157, and again after 1230.

This book provides a general survey of the life and work of the Spanish philosopher and essayist Ortega y Gasset (1183-1955), author of the widely read The Revolt of the Masses. It is intended to be accessible to both Hispanists and general readers with an interest in literature, history, intellectual and political thought and philosophy.

The late fifteenth-century Spanish masterpiece Celestina is one of the world's classics. In this important study, Dorothy Sherman Severin investigates how Fernando de Rojas' work in dialogue, which parodies earlier genres, is a precursor of the modern novel.

This book examines the practice and ideology of colonial architecture in Latin America, especially in Peru 1535-1635. The deliberate display of architectural motifs, the organisation of building practice and labour are all shown to have served the ends of the political, religious and economic conquest instead of being merely a provincial reflection of mainstream European art.

The corregidores were Castilian royal officials who functioned as mayors and superior judges in the provinces, cities, towns, and villages they were sent to oversee. Through its study of their many varied duties, this book offers a panoramic view of Castile during the late medieval and Renaissance eras.

This book examines the reason and intent behind the many Senecan and pseudo-Senecan quotations in Fernando de Rojas' masterpiece Celestina (1499), which enjoyed enormous popularity in sixteenth-century Europe.

In the Spanish Golden Age, the new literary mode of vernacular prose fiction was deplored by many authorities for setting bad examples, undermining reality by deceiving with lies, and persuading in the face of rational disbelief. Dr Ife here examines the connection between such contemporary objections to fiction and those raised two thousand years earlier by Plato.

This book tells the story of Sur, Argentina's foremost literary and cultural journal of the twentieth century. Politically speaking, Sur represented a certain brand of liberalism, a resistance to populism and mass culture, and an attachment to elitist values which offended against the more dominant phases of Argentine thought.

This book recounts the afterlife of the great Golden Age dramatist Pedro Calderon de la Barca in Dutch and German-speaking Europe. Professor Sullivan documents and analyses Calderon's reception and influence on the stage and on playwriting, criticism, philosophy and music in these territories.

The crusade which conquered Mediterranean Spain in the thirteenth century resulted in the domination by an alien Christian minority of a dissident Muslim majority and an unusually large Jewish population. Professor Burns' research into previously untapped archival sources reveals the tensions and interaction between the three religious societies after the crusade.

Francisco de Quevedo was known throughout seventeenth-century Europe as the author of two Spanish best-sellers, the picaresque novel El buscon, and the satirical Suenos. Thoroughly Baroque in style, the poems share many traits with the metaphysical poetry of Quevedo's English contemporaries.

In this book Linda Martz explores the major developments in the theory and practice of poor relief in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and determines how far Spanish attitudes to poverty compared with those of other countries in western Europe.

This is a definitive study of a major intellectual movement of nineteenth-century Spain - the 'harmonic rationalism' of Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781-1832). Professor Lopez-Morillas clearly outlines the Krausist philosophy (dedicated to an ideal of universal brotherhood) and its relevance to Spain, where it had an unexpectedly powerful influence.

This book, originally published in 1982, was the first detailed study of black slavery in Portugal during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Students interested in slavery and race relations as well to students of European, Latin American and African history will find this an important and useful book.