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A Companion to Jorge Luis Borges by Steven Boldy
Booksplease Price: £25.91An introduction to one of Latin America's most important authors. Jorge Luis Borges is one of the key writers of the twentieth century in the context of both Hispanic and world literature. This... -
The Representation of the Political in Selected Writings of Julio Cortazar by Carolina Orloff
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99OrIoff shows that Cortazar did not become a political writer as a result of the Cuban Revolution, as is often claimed, but rather that the representation of the political was present in Cortazar's... -
Cesar Vallejo - A Critical Bibliography of Research by Stephen M. Hart
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £62.28Do you know when Cesar Vallejo was born? Was he a communist or a lapsed Catholic, or both? Do you know what he died of? Did you know that a new collection of hand-written manuscripts has been... -
Lope pintado por si mismo - Mito e imagen del autor en la poesia de Lope de Vega Carpio by Antonio Sanchez Jimenez
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.37Un analisis de la obra poetica de Lope de Vega revela como amoldo su propio personaje "Lope" para adecuarse, generalmente con exito, a los cambios de su entorno. La obra poetica de Lope de Vega se... -
Homosexuality and Invisibility in Revolutionary - Reinaldo Arenas and Tomas Gutierrez Alea by Maria Encarnacion Lopez
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99Offers alternative insights into the complex relationship between politics and intelligentsia in revolutionary Cuba. This work offers an alternative insight into the longstanding and conflicting... -
Ausias March: Verse Translations of Thirty Poems Ausias March 9781855661301
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55Verse translations of selected works by Ausias March, the great fifteenth-century Valencian poet. The Valencian Ausias March [1400-1459] was one of the greatest poets writing in Europe in the... -
A Companion to Pablo Neruda - Evaluating Neruda`s Poetry by Jason Wilson 9781855662803
Booksplease Price: £27.80The making of a great Chilean poet. Pablo Neruda was without doubt one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. However, his work is extremely uneven, and long. The companion examines the... -
María de Zayas and her Tales of Desire, Death and Disillusion Professor Margaret R Greer 9781855664227
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.90Who doubts, my reader, that you will be amazed that a woman has the audacity not only to write a book, but to send it for printing, which is the crucible in which the purity of genius is tested'? ... -
Rhetoric and Reality in Early Modern Spain by Richard J. Pym
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99The extent to which contemporary rhetorics of nation and kingship reflected the realities of social, economic and cultural life in Habsburg Spain. Early modern Spain's insistent rhetorics of... -
Maria de Zayas and her Tales of Desire, Death and Disillusion by Professor Margaret R Greer 9781855663602
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99Who doubts, my reader, that you will be amazed that a woman has the audacity not only to write a book, but to send it for printing, which is the crucible in which the purity of genius is tested'? ... -
Philip IV and the World of Spain's Rey Planeta by Stephen M Hart
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.37Did Spain fall into decline or flourish in the seventeenth century? This edited collection looks at perceptions and representations of Philip IV, Spain's 'Planet King', and his government against... -
A Companion to Latin American Photography Nathanial Gardner 9781855663855
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £71.67How can photography enrich our knowledge of Latin America? Photography provides unique insights into Latin America. It acts as a witness, agent, and archive - containing a wealth of knowledge... -
Literature, Testimony and Cinema in Contemporary - Spectres of La Violencia by Rory O'Bryen
Booksplease Price: £87.30Memory and mourning in Colombia. This book provides the first in-depth examination of a representative range of contemporary Colombian cultural engagements with the conflicts known simply as La... -
Cultural Capital, Language and National Identity in Imperial Spain by Lucia Binotti
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99A 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. This innovative study... -
Rich and Poor in Nineteenth-Century Spain - A Critique of Liberal Society in the Later Novels of Benito Perez Galdos by Inma Ridao Carlini
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99A full exploration of Galdos's treatment of questions relating to the creation and distribution of wealth in the modern money-centred society of Restoration Spain. Winner of the 2017 Peter Bly... -
Federico Garcia Lorca - The Poetry in All Things by Federico Bonaddio 9781855663541
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99Feted by his contemporaries, Federico Garcia Lorca's status has only grown since his death in 1936. This book shows just why his fame has endured, through an exploration of his most popular works:... -
Doctrina pueril: A Primer for the Medieval World Ramon Llull 9781855663091
Booksplease Price: £21.34An unforgettable introduction to the medieval world and its culture for the modern reader. Published in association with Editorial Barcino. Ramon Llull wrote the Doctrina pueril between 1274... -
Jorge Manrique`s Coplas por la muerte de su padr - A History of the Poem and its Reception by Nancy F. Marino
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99A thorough examination of the making of, transmission, and scholarly engagement with one of the most famous poems in the Spanish language. Completed shortly before Jorge Manrique's death in 1479,... -
Federico García Lorca: The Poetry in All Things Federico Bonaddio 9781855664203
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.90Feted by his contemporaries, Federico Garcia Lorca's status has only grown since his death in 1936: poet, playwright, political martyr, gay icon, champion of women, defender of the oppressed. This... -
Libro de Buen Amor Studies by G.B.Gybbon- Monypenny
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £67.93Juan Ruiz's Libro de Buen Amor is one of the major literary accomplishments of the Iberian middle ages, and has generated an extensive secondary bibliography. Its uniqueness and diversity have... -
A Companion to Latin American Film by Stephen M. Hart 9781855661066
Booksplease Price: £86.58A history of Latin American cinema, with detailed analysis of the twenty-five best films. Latin American cinema has seen major developments in the past half-century, and some of the most exciting... -
Hybrid Identity and the Utopian Impulse in the Postmodern Spanish-American Comic Novel by Paul R. McAleer
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.24The author examines the role of comedy in the novels of four key postmodern Spanish-American writers: Gustavo Sainz, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Jaime Bayly and Fernando Vallejo. An important but... -
A Companion to Latin American Film by Stephen M. Hart
Booksplease Price: £31.40A history of Latin American cinema, with detailed analysis of the twenty-five best films. Latin American cinema has seen major developments in the past half-century, and some of the most exciting... -
A Companion to Pablo Neruda - Evaluating Neruda`s Poetry by Jason Wilson 9781855661677
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.37The making of a great Chilean poet. Pablo Neruda was without doubt one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century but his work is extremely uneven. There is a view that there are two Nerudas,... -
The Criminal Baroque - Lawbreaking, Peacekeeping, and Theatricality in Early Modern Spain by Ted L. L. Bergman
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.67A close examination of the representation of criminals in the understudied theatrical genres of the jacara and comedias de valentones. Early Modern Spanish theatre is viewed by many scholars as... -
Ramiro de Maeztu and England - Imaginaries, Realities and Repercussions of a Cultural Encounter by David Jimenez Torres
Booksplease Price: £96.11A major contribution to our understanding of intellectual exchanges between Britain and Spain in the early twentieth century. Ramiro de Maeztu was one of the most influential Spanish intellectuals... -
The Dramatic World of Valle-Inclan by Robert Lima
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.67Valle-Inclan considered as actor, director and playwright, with bibliography of his plays. Daring, innovative, controversial, often satirical, a dramatist ahead of his time, Ramon del Valle-Inclan... -
A Companion to Catalan Culture Dominic Keown 9781855662278
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.67Why Catalans insist on their identity. The tragic fate of the millenary personality of Catalonia has rarely been fully appreciated abroad. Since the early eighteenth century its national voice has... -
Reading Jaume Roig’s Espill: Misogyny, Religion, and Readers’ Annotations in Early Modern Print by Professor Jean Dangler 9781855664166
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £71.67What lessons did readers take from the Espill (The Mirror)? This book examines key marginalia in sixteenth-century printed copies of the fictional, pedagogic tale about the alleged dangers of... -
A Companion to Latin American Crime Fiction Philip Swanson 9781855663787
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £71.67The first integrated overview in English of Latin American crime fiction, a flourishing genre with unique perspectives and characteristics. Latin American crime fiction has a long and rich... -
The Classical Tradition in Medieval Catalan, 1300- 1500 - Translation, Imitation, and Literacy by Albert Lloret 9781855663220
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.67The first comprehensive study of the reception of the classical tradition in medieval Catalan letters. This book offers the first comprehensive study of the reception of the classical tradition in... -
Cesar Vallejo - A Literary Biography by Stephen M. Hart 9781855662537
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.67This is the first biography of Latin America's most important poet. the Peruvian Cesar Vallejo. It traces the important events of his life and evaluates his poetry, fiction, theatre, political essays... -
Filial Crisis and Erotic Politics in Black Cuban - Daughters, Sons, and Lovers by Conrad Michael James
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99An affective reading of twentieth-century Afro-Cuban literature focussing on a set of concerns ranging from the filial to the erotic. This book proposes an affective reading of twentieth-century... -
Love Poetry in the Spanish Golden Age - Eros, Eris and Empire by Isabel Torres
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.99Love poetry in the Spanish Golden Age redefines the lyric poetry that is located at the centre of Imperial Spanish culture's own self-image and self-definition. This work engages with a broader... -
Writing Wrongdoing in Spain, 1800-1936 - Realities, Representations, Reactions by Alison Sinclair
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.67Tracks the emergence and vicissitudes of attitudes to wrongdoing in Spain from the 19th century through the decades before the Civil War. The international contributors to this volume explore the... -
Ramon Llull as a Vernacular Writer - Communicating a New Kind of Knowledge by Lola Badia
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £112.78The authors maintain that Llull was an atypical 'scholar' because he enjoyed a form of access to knowledge that differed from the norm and because he organized the production and dissemination of his... -
A Companion to Juan Rulfo by Steven Boldy
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £82.29A comprehensive study of the Mexican writer considered one of the finest novelists and short-story writers in 20th-century Latin America. Juan Rulfo, 1917-1986, is one of the three greatest... -
Spanish Golden Age Poetry in Motion - The Dynamics of Creation and Conversation by Jean Andrews
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.67The fourteen essays of this volume engage in distinct ways with the matter of motion in early modern Spanish poetics. Los catorce ensayos de este volumen conectan de una manera perceptible con... -
Luis de Camoes - The Poet as Scriptural Exegete by John V. Fleming
Booksplease Price: £96.41Fleming masterfully demonstrates Camoes's debt to, and participation in, the long and continuing traditions of "spiritual" or allegorical scriptural exegesis in the European Middle Ages and... -
The Comedia in English - Translation and Performance by Susan Paun De Garcia
Booksplease Price: £97.23How should a seventeenth-centry Spanish verse play be presented to a contemporary English-speaking audience? For many reasons, but most usually the lack of playable modern translations, the plays...