Books in the Institute for Adminstrative Officers of series

Looking at a wide range of cultural practices and artefacts, including television, popular music, and pornography, this text addresses representations of sexual behaviour and collective identity, homosexuality, and ideologies of gender in historical and contemporary Hispanic culture.

In this text, works from the Spanish canon, such as the Spanish "Comedia" and Garcilaso's poetry, and literary areas that have been marginalized, like texts written by 19th-century Spanish women, are considered within the political context of textual editing.

The legacy of Columbus' discovery of the New World and its subsequent colonization is a current focus of much historical debate. This book examines the constitution of an Amerindian world born of resistance against European cultural imperialism.

Baltasar Gracian, a 17th-century Spanish Jesuit writer, explored the political uses of rhetoric. The essays in this volume focus on the relevance of Gracian in the late-20th century, arguing that the so-called "new world order" is an old idea, stretching back to the sophists of ancient Greece.

"Picaresque Tales" - parodic narratives relating the adventures of a rogue - have been central to the development of Spanish literature. This text addresses the connection between literary representation and everyday life, examining the context in which the Picaresque mode developed.

This study looks at critical theory and practices in Spain in the post-Franco period.