Tamesis Books

A comprehensive examination of the full range of Carmen Mart?n Gaite's work. Carmen Mart?n Gaite produced a large body of work in various genres over the course of her five-decade career, though she...

The first and only guide in English to the influential body of Catalan literature, from the middle ages to the present day. This book is the only one of its kind in English. Part literary history,...

This edited volume of fourteen specially commissioned essays written from a variety of critical perspectives by leading Cervantine scholars seeks to provide an overview of Cervantes's Novelas...

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...

Lorca, icon and polymath in all his manifestations. A Companion to Federico Garc?a Lorca provides a clear, critical appraisal of the issues and debates surrounding the work of Spain's most celebrated...

An 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...

A 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...

The evolution of Latin American literature. A Companion to Latin American Literature offers a lively and informative introduction to the most significant literary works produced in Latin America from...

An assessment of the life, work and reputation of Spain's leading Golden Age dramatist A Companion to Lope de Vega brings together work by leading international scholars on the life and writing of...

Luis Bu?uel was one of the great film-makers of the twentieth century. Gwynne Edwards analyses his work in the context of Bu?uel's personal obsessions - sex, bourgeois values and religion. Luis...

A refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession. Companion to Magical Realism provides an...

This Companion offers an overview and assessment of Mario Vargas Llosa's large body of work, tracing his development as a writer and intellectual in his essays, critical studies, journalism, and...

A comprehensive guide to the evolution of the major creative aspects of Mexican culture from pre-Columbian times to the present. This Companion volume traces the evolution of the major creative...

A comprehensive survey of Spanish American fiction as it has eveolved through successive phases. With such figures as Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel ?ngel Asturias and Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez (both the...

The 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, an...

An essential chronological framework for students of Portuguese literature. This companion volume offers an introduction to European Portuguese literature for university-level readers. It consists of...

The first Spanish-language literary movement to originate in the New World and subsequently influence literary activity in Spain continues to be relevant to contemporary Spanish American writers...

The history of Spanish cinema. This is the first detailed history of Spanish cinema written in English for English readers. It presents a balanced exploration of trends and genres from the popular to...

An overview of the issues and critical debates in the field of Women's Studies within the area of peninsular Hispanism. After an introductory survey of the development of women's studies in the...

A panorama of literature by Latinos, whether born or resident in the United States. This volume, documenting the linguistic and cultural diversity of Latino literary output in the United States,...

Surviving theatrical contracts throw light on the remarkable degree of theatrical activity throughout 17c Spain. In 1639 the Madrid notary Juan Garc?a de Albertos was appointed Escribano de la...

En 1639 el escribano madrile?o Juan Garc?a de Albertos fue nombrado Escribano de la Comisi?n de las comedias. Sus protocolos notariales contienen m?s de 2.000 escrituras relacionadas con actores y...

Cr?tica metaf?rica de los reinados de Felipe III y de Felipe IV en las obras dram?ticas de Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina y Calder?n de la Barca. La presente monograf?a analiza las obras dram?ticas de...

This book is the first major study of one of Spain's most celebrated younger novelists, Bel?n Gopegui, whose work stands apart from other writers of her generation for its uncompromising focus on the...

Do you know when C?sar 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...

Seminal studies of Spain's greatest dramatist on his fourth centenary. Dr Pring-Mill is one of the most eminent Calder?n scholars, and this volume demonstrates the development of his critical...

A study and edition of one of the most ignored works of early Spanish literature because of its strong sexual content, this work examines the social ideology that conditioned the reactions of people...

An examination of Argentina's "Dirty War" in films made after the advent of democracy in 1983. The systematic illegal persecution and annihilation of political opponents of the 1979-1983 Argentine...

This collection of original essays focuses on the cross-currents and points of contact among Spain, Portugal and Latin America and their impact on the regions' film industries. This book focuses on...

The first book-length study of modern Peruvian narrative and its resurgence in the 1990s, focussing on Jaime Bayly, Iv?n Thays and Jorge Eduardo Benavides. This book provides the first look at the...