The collapse of the state-controlled economies of the former Eastern Bloc will certainly change the way the global economy operates. Bringing together...
The plays of Ruiz de Alarcón, a significant dramatist in the Spanish Golden Age, show in many of their plots a preoccupation with deception, which...
This volume explores the theme of childhood in the cuentista and poet Silvina Ocampo (1903-1993) and the poet Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972). It draws...
The Corral de la Cruz (1579-1736) is the less well known of Madrid's Golden Age playhouses. This latest volume in Tamesis's Fuentes series is a...
In the more than two hundred years since his death, Cook's reputation has been much discussed, opinion ranging from celebration of his achievement to...
This book provides the first look at the dynamic resurgence of Peruvian narrative since the late 1990s. Talk-show host Jaime Bayly's seven novels...
This study in the interdisciplinary field of law and literature analyses the representation of law in the work of twentieth-century Spanish writer...
Este libro examina el significativo papel de las ropas y de los adornos corporales en la construcción de la identidad en nueve autobiografías...
Despite the fact that Darwinian theory was perhaps the big idea of the nineteenth century, most critics in the past have assumed that Benito Pérez...
Martel's La bolsa (1891) initiates, and Dorfman's Reader (1995) concludes, a study of the white-collar citizens of Buenos Aires and Montevideo in...