First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This collection features major critical articles dealing with the authors and texts customarily taught in colleges and universities in the United States. The articles are in English and Spanish with a predominance of the former. The material is organized to reflect the common chronological and period divisions of the academic curriculum, and is clustered around major literary figures, with a mix of general articles on the writers and texts that are commonly included in anthologies.

Contents:
Beverley, John, Can Hispanism Be A Radical Practice?, Ideologies and Literature 4 [1983]
Read, Malcolm K, Writing in the Institution: The Politics of British Hispanism, Journal of Hispanic Philology 15 [1991]
di Camillo, Ottavio, Interpretations of the Renaissance in Spanish Historical Thought: The Last Thirty Years, Romance Quarterly 49 [1996]
Goldman, Peter B, Dramatic Works and their Readership in Eighteenth-Century Spain: Social Stratifications and the Middle Classes, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 66 [1989]
Casamayor, Juan, Towards a Revisionary Theory of Spanish Romanticism, Revista de Estudios Hispanicos 28 [1994]
Clementi, Hebe, Sobre le formacion de la ideologia krausista en Espana, Letras Peninsulares 6 [1993-1994]^l Ribbans, Geoffre Y, Some Subversive Thoughts on Modernismo and the Generation of '98, West Virginia University Philogical Papers [1993]
Jurkevich, Gayana, Defining Castile in Literature and Art: Institucionalismo, the Generation 0f '98, and the Origins of Modern Spanish Landscape, revista Hispanica Moderna 67 [1994]
Diaz, Janet W, Spain's Vernacular Literatures in the Post-Franco Era, World Literature Today 53 [1979]
Perez, Janet, Post-Franco Castilian and Vernacular Literatures, Denver Quarterly 17 [1982]
Ciplijauskaite, Birute, Recent Spanish Poetry and the Essential Word, Studies in Twentieth Century Literature 16 [1992]
Spires, Robert C, Discursive Constructs and Spanish Fiction of the 1980's, The Journal of Narrative Technique 27 [1997]
Sullivan, Constance A, On Spanish Literary History and the Politics of Gender, Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 23 [1990]
Brown, Joan L, Women Writers in Spanish Literary History: Past, Present and Future, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos^n 14 [1990]
Marti Olivella, Jaume, Homoeroticism and Specular Transgression in Peninsular Feminine Narrative, Espana Contemporanea 5 [1992]
Jones, Margaret E W, Different Wor(l)ds: Modes of Women's Communication in Spain's Narrativa Femenina, Monographic Review/Revista Monografica 8 [1995]^l Reisz, Susana, Hipotesis sobre el tema 'escritura femenina e hispanidad, Tropelias 1 [1990]
Maravall, Jose A, Notas sobre la libertad de pensamiento en Espana durante el siglo de la ilustracion, Nueva Revista de Filologia Hispanica 33 [1984]
Britt Arredondo, Christopher, El Quijotismo de Ganivet a Ortega. La Modernidad espanola y el macionalismo imperial, Quimera 135 [1995]
Geist, Anthony L, El 27 y la vanguardia: Una aprozimacion ideolgica, ^Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos 514 [1993]
Zaval, Iris M, Apuntes sobre la posmodernidad en la heterogeneidad social espanola, Journal of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 7 [1995]
Benson, Ken, Transformacion del horizonte de expectativas en la narrative posmoderna espanola: de Senas de indentifad a El jinete polaco, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos 19 [1994]
Amell, Samuel, Tradicion y renovacion, un difficil balance en la novela espanola actual, Critica Hispanica 14 [1992]
Brown, Joan L, The Contemporary Hispanic Novel: Is There a Canon?, Hispania 78 [1995]
Navajas, Gonzalo, Generacion y canon o ley y orden en literatura, Siglo [1994]

Contents:
Fiekel, Robert W, The Theme of Love in the Mozarabic jarchas and in cante flamenco, Confluencia 4 [1988]
Montgomery, Thomas, The Presence of the Text: The Poema de mio Cid, Modern Language Notes 108 [1993]
Orduna, German, El Texto del Poema de mio Cid ante el procesco de la tradicionalidad oral y escrita, Letras - Universidad Catolica Argentina 14 [1985]
Tinnell, Roger D, Authorship and Composition: Music and Poetry in Las Cantigas de Santa Maria of Alfonso X, el Sabio, Romance Quarterly 28 [1981]
Diz, Marta Ana, Elmago de Toledo: Borges y don Juan Manuel, Modern Language Notes 108 [1985]
Dunn, Peter N, Framing the Story, Framing the Reader:Two Spanish Masters, Modern Language Review 91 [1996]
Giron Alconchel, Jose Luis, Caracterizacion linguistica de los personajes y polifonia textual en el Libro de Buen Amor, Epos 2 [1986]
Vasvari, Louise, The Battle of Flesh and Lent in the Libro del Arcipreste: Gastro-Genital Rites of Reversal, La Coronica 20 [1991], Swan, A M, Santillana's Serranillas: A Poetic Genre of Their Own, Neophilologus 63 [1979]
Spitzer, Leo, Los romances espanoles: El romance de Abenamar, Explicacion de textos literarios 1 [1972]
Montgomery, Thomas, Jorge, Manrique and the Dynamics of Grieving, Hispania 78 [1995]
Hernandez de Leon, Ascension, Nebrija y las lenguas companeras del imperio, Cuadernos Americanos, 7 [1993]
Lihani, John, Spanish Urban Life in the Late Fifteenth Century as Seen in Celestina, Celestinesca 11 [1987]
Severin, Dorothy Sherman, Celestina and the Magical Empowerment of Women, Celestinesca 17 [1993]
Johnson, Carroll B, Personal Involvement and Poetic Tradition in the Spanish Renaissance: Some thoughts on reading Garcilaso, Romantic Review 80 [1989]
Lopez Castro, Armando, Modernidad de Garcilaso, Revista de Literatura 55 [1993]
Rivers, Elias L, Some Ideas about Language and Poetry in Sixteenth Century Spain, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 61 [1984]
Bruflat, Alan, Modificacion de la experienca poetica: Tres odas de Fray Luis de Leon, Hispanic Journal 7 [1986]
Ter Horst, Robert, Poetics and Economics in the 'Vida retirada' of Fray Luis de Leon, Hispanic Journal 7 [1986]
Ter Horst, Robert, Poetics and Economics in the 'vida retirada' of Fray Luis de Leon, Hispanic Review 64 [1996]
Lopez Castro, Armando, Hacio una espiritualidad erotica en San Juan de la Cruz, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos 568 [1997]
Albrecht, Jane W, Linguistics Style and Point of View in Lazarillo de Tormes, Neophilologus 77 [1993]
Cros, Edmond, Semantica y estructuras socials en el Lazarillo de Tormes, Revista Hispanica Moderna 39 [1976-77]
Tirado, Pilar del Carmen, Parody, Poverty and the Lazarillo de Tormes, Hispanofila 115 [1995]
Yndurain, Domingo, El renacimiento de Lazaro, Hispania 75 [1992]
Velasco Kindelan, Magdalena, Motivaciones y destinarios de Libro de la vida de Santa Teresa de Jesus, Revista de Literatura 54 [1992]
Perez de Leon, Vincente, El licenciado Vidriera: La lectura del mundo de un personaje literario, Romance Languages Annual 7 [1995]
Munguia Garcia, Victor Eduardo, El Licenciado Vidriera y Don Quijote, Anales Cervantinos 30 [1992]
Blue, William R, The Politics of Lope's Fuente ovejuna, Hispanic Review 59 [1991]
McKay, Angus, The Crowd in the Theater and the Crowd in History: Fuente ovejuna, Renaissance Drama 17 [1986]
Dolan, Kathleen H, Figure and Ground: Concrete Mysticism in Gongora's Fabula de Polifemo y Galatea, Hispanic Review 52 [1984]
Calcraft, R P, The Carpe Diem sonnets of Garcilaso de la Vega and Gongora, Modern Language Review 76 [1981]
Martin, Francesco J, Mas alla de soneto amoroso: Quevedo y la preocupacion metafisica, Romance Notes 38 [1997]
Rivers, Elias L, Quevedo Against Culteranismo: A Note on Politics and Morality, Modern Language Notes 112 [1997]
Vitse, Marc, Sobre los espacios en La dama duende: El cuarto de don Manuel, RILCE 12 [1996]
, Schizzano Mandel, Adrienne, La dama juega al duende: Pre-texto,geno-texto feno-texto, Bulletin of the Comediantes 37 [1985]

For Latin American literature of the second half of the 20th century, critics have proposed such labels as "new novel" and "new new novel," boom and post-boom, women's literature, testimonial, postmodern literature, and the like. Given the fact that none of these designations is entirely satisfactory for fully charting the complex map of literary phenomena, this volume features an arrangement based on the birthdate of the writers represented, with an emphasis on individuals who have transcended the boundaries of national literatures and achieved a certain international recognition.

This volume brings together papers on various theoretical questions that have been raised in recent debates in Spanish American literary studies. It provides varying perspectives and explores diverse theoretical approaches to colonial culture, testimonial writing, gender studies, postmodernism, ethnic issues, politics and nationalism, and other important subjects.

These critical studies propose innovative readings and overall reformulations of the texts and authors that stand as representative of the period for the contemporary reader. The first group of articles refers to reports, chronicles, and Renaissance epics, a vast block of texts that fall in most cases halfway between history and narrative fiction, and examine the experiences of the discovery, the conquest, and the colonization of the new territories. The second group concentrates on regionally marked texts from the Baroque period, especially those of the central figure of the Mexican nun poet and intellectual, Sor Juana In s de la Cruz. Finally, there are some essays on representative texts of the latter part of the colonial period.

The 19th century in Latin America begins with the weakening of the political institutions established by the Spanish Crown, the emergence of a native consciousness and the diffusion of the ideas of the French Revolution and the United States. These articles examine the phenomena that mark the onset of the new century: the series of revolutions and long military struggles for independence that placed large areas of territory under arms and resulted in the formation of strong and independent nation-states.

The greater body of Spanish American letters stands in somewhat of an ancillary relationship to the traditions that arose in Europe. Only at the end of the 19th century, with the emergence of "modernismo," which was linked to European aesthetic movements such as French Parnassianism and Symbolism, there emerged a wave of literary innovations and experimentation that ushered in the modern era. This volume covers writers whose positions and reputations were established and consolidated prior to the crucial decade of the l960s.

Writers and editors of Spanish have long needed an authoritative guide to written language usage, similar to The MLA Style Manual and The Chicago Manual of Style. And here it is! This reference guide provides comprehensive information on how the Spanish language is copyedited for publication.

The book covers these major areas:
-- Language basics: capitalization, word division, spelling, and punctuation.
-- Language conventions: abbreviations, professional and personal titles, names of organizations, and nationalities.
-- Bibliographic format, particularly how Spanish differs from English.
-- Spanish language forms of classical authors' names.
-- Literary and grammatical terminology.
-- Linguistic terminology.
-- Biblical names and allusions.
-- A dictionary of grammatical doubts, including usage, grammatical constructions of particular words and phrases, verbal irregularities, and gender variations.