Allende's very popular novels have attracted both critical approval and opprobrium, often at the expense of genuine analysis. This sophisticated study...
En este trabajo se analizan comparativamente los Bildungsromane femeninos de la escritora mexicana Carmen Boullosa (Mejor desaparece, Antes y Treinta...
The anonymous novella Vida y costumbres de la Madre Andrea (ca 1650, The Life and Times of Mother Andrea) is a fascinating account of the life of the...
As they reshaped the Italian novella under the inquisitorial atmosphere of the Counter-Reformation, Spanish narrators labelled their texts as...
Médicos escritores en España, 1885-1955 estudia las representaciones metafóricas de la enfermedad en Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934), Pío Baroja...
María de Zayas y Sotomayor published two volumes of novellas, Novelas amorosas y ejemplares (1637) and Desengaños amorosos (1647), which enjoyed...
Ramiro de Maeztu was one of the most influential Spanish intellectuals of the early twentieth century, as well as the first foreign correspondent for...
This volume, documenting the linguistic and cultural diversity of Latino literary output in the United States, offers an exciting introduction for...
Responding to many of the same neo-colonial concerns as earlier African writers, Ben Okri, B. Kojo Laing and Yvonne Vera bring contemporary, hybrid...
Lettering the Self argues that letters in medieval and early-modern France reveal the contours of the pre-modern self. Letters in this period were...