The term metafiction invaded the vocabulary of literary criticism around 1970, yet the textual
strategies involved in turning fiction back onto itself can be traced through several centuries …

Since the 1930s, Latin American writers have used magic realism to transcend the limits of
the fantastic and illuminate social problems within the culture. The author considers five …

In Inscribed Power, Ryan D. Giles explores the function of amuletic prayers, divine names,
and incantation formulas that were inscribed and printed on parchment, paper and other …

The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel presents the development of the modern
Spanish novel from 1600 to the present. Drawing on the combined legacies of Don Quijote …

Ph. D. thesis in Computer Science written by Antonio Reyes Pérez under the supervision of
Dr. Paolo Rosso (Universitat Politècnica de València). The thesis defense was done in …

Francisco de Quevedo (Madrid, 1580-1645) was well known for his rich and dynamic style,
achieved through an ingenious and complex manipulation of language. Yet he was also a …

The picaresque genre's narrations of the misadventures of rogues have tended to privilege
the masculine gender of its protagonists, and the male-centered plot of these canonical …

On Good Friday, 1626, Franciscus Quaresmius delivered a sermon in the Church of the Holy
Sepulcher in Jerusalem calling on King Philip IV of Spain to undertake a crusade to …

Este ensayo explora la movilidad física y social de individuos cuyas vidas transitaron entre
España y Perú y que, a pesar de ser el producto de sucesivas uniones entre españoles e …

Pese a no haber atraído excesiva atención crítica, la Tragicomedia de los jardines y campos
sabeos de Feliciana Enríquez de Guzmán es una obra de gran interés para el lector del …