Books in the Monografias A series

One of the major Latin American writers of the twentieth century.

Seminal studies of Spain's greatest dramatist on his fourth centenary.

A study of the cultural mechanisms in early modern Spain that led to the translation, imitation and selective adoption of the values embodied by the Italian Renaissance.

An overview of the issues and critical debates in the field of Women's Studies within the area of peninsular Hispanism.

This edited volume of fourteen specially commissioned essays written from a variety of critical perspectives by leading Cervantine scholars seeks to provide an overview of Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares which will be of interest to a broad academic readership.

A refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession.

Valle-Inclan considered as actor, director and playwright, with bibliography of his plays.

The master of the realist novel of nineteenth-century Spain, Benito Perez Galdos, is the subject of these new studies.

A study which highights the ironic intrusion of novelistic elements in Persiles y Sigismunda, subverting its categorization as pure romance fiction.

A study of the work of the Spanish poet Luis Cernuda (1902-1963).

A history of Latin American cinema, with detailed analysis of the twenty-five best films.

An examination of typology about place in relation to the Virgin Mary.

A comprehensive inquiry into the literary representation of the convulsive social and political changes introduced by the Bolivarian Revolution.

La primera monografia academica en ocuparse de la historia del icono cleopatrico en la cultura espanola. The first thorough study of the history of the Cleopatra icon in Spanish culture.

An assessment of the life, work and reputation of Spain's leading Golden Age dramatist

Examines the importance of intertextuality, in particular hypertextuality, in the poetics of Castilian romances of chivalry.

Explores Celestina's role as a key interlocutor in European literature and thought in the context of debates about the human condition.

A careful re-evaluation of pastoral poetics in the early modern Hispanic literature of Spain and Latin America.

Terukina ofrece una nueva biografia de Bernardo de Balbuena y analiza la compleja matriz interdisciplinaria de Grandeza mexicana (1604). Terukina offers an updated biography of Bernardo de Balbuena and analyzes the complex interdisciplinary matrix within which Grandeza mexicana (1604) is articulated.