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The Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics offers a comprehensive overview of Latin American aesthetic and conceptual production addressing the more-than-human environment at the interse …

An exploration of Spanish writer Carmen Martín Gaite’s religious outlook through the inner journeys of five female characters. For Martín Gaite, a truly religious, or spiritual, perspective requires …

The Theater of Truth argues that seventeenth-century baroque and twentieth-century neobaroque aesthetics have to be understood as part of the same complex. The Neobaroque, rather than being a return …

The book investigates historical patterns of vowel diphthongization, assimilation and dissimilation induced by consonants – mostly (alveolo)palatals – in Romance. Compiling data from dialectal descri …

This book aims to develop a broader view of the trajectory of Hispanic modernity, tracing a motif of recurring impasse, first seen in peninsular Baroque texts and continuing into Latin American colon …

Dante, the pilgrim, is the image of an author who stubbornly looks ahead, seeking and building the ‘Great Beyond’ (Manguel). Following in his footsteps is therefore not a return to the past, going à …

peter of Auvergne (+1304) is one of the most productive and most influential commentators of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Paris, At the end of the 13th century Peter actually moved to the …

Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews: Judeo-Spanish Ballads from Oral Tradition offers a comprehensive exploration of the rich oral traditions within the Sephardic Jewish community, focusing on ball …

‘Anything and everything, depending on how one sees it, is a marvel or a hindrance, an all or a nothing, a path or a problem, ‘ says Bernardo Soares, the putative author of Fernando Pessoa’s classic …

Women, Witchcraft, and the Inquisition in Spain and the New World investigates the mystery and unease surrounding the issue of women called before the Inquisition in Spain and its colonial territorie …