Romance

Places the warrior-poet Aldana in the appropriate poetic and philosophical context of the Spanish Golden Age and the European Renaissance. This study explores the love lyric of one of the greatest, y …

Zayas’s prose through a gynocentric lens. María de Zayas y Sotomayor published two volumes of novellas, Novelas amorosas y ejemplares [1637] and Desengaños amorosos [1647], which enjoyed immense popu …

Essays in this volume deal with the historical, linguistic, and ideological legacy of the Spanish Empire and its language in the New World. Das E-Book Spanish and Empire wird angeboten von Vanderbilt …

The complex narrative technique of one of Spain’s most renowned contemporary authors. The writings of Arturo Pérez-Reverte, one of Spain’s most renowned contemporary authors, have been described as a …

Early Modern Spanish theatre is viewed by many scholars as entertaining propaganda that channelled the emotions and beliefs of the masses into mechanisms for social control. This book questions such …

Thomas Hart examines Erich Auerbach’s contention that Don Quixote is not a tragedy but a comedy and suggests that Auerbach’s view was shaped by his reading of Ariosto’s chivalric romance Orlando furi …

Góngora’s Soledades, the major lyric poem of the Spanish Baroque. Combining philological rigor with a capacity to engage the most contemporary transatlantic and comparatist concerns, this work situat …

An introduction to Cervantes’s complex masterpiece. The purpose of this book is to help the English-speaking reader, with an interest in Spanish literature but without specialised knowledge of Cervan …

The source of the narrative energy that creates such absorbing stories. Allende’s very popular novels have attracted both critical approval and opprobrium, often at the expense of genuine analysis. T …

Returning to Spain after fighting in the Battle of Lepanto and other Mediterranean campaigns against the Turks, the soldier Miguel de Cervantes was captured by Barbary pirates and taken captive to Al …