Tamesis Books

Peral Vega explores the importance of Pierrot as a symbol of failure in matters of love in Garc?a Lorca's imagery and his literary and personal life. Academic research has paid little attention to...

A reappraisal of Lope's literary career, bringing out the complexities of his dramatic texts. This book offers a radical re-evaluation of Lope's theatre, which will affect the way in which the...

Mu?oz P?rez revela la importancia de las mujeres en la pol?tica y cultura de la corte espa?ola en tiempos de Olivares. Mu?oz P?rez examines the importance of women in political and cultural life at...

Reconstructs through testimonial literature the repression of women during the Franco years and recovers the writings of some of the forgotten post-war women novelists. The passing of Spain's Law of...

Este libro muestra que Gabriel Mir? no ha sido olvidado, sino que ha influido en la literatura hisp?nica posterior, en particular la novela de postguerra. ENGLISH VERSION This book shows that Gabriel...

Shows how the experience of violence in Argentina shed light on a new sense of "being together" that goes beyond bloodline ties. Co-winner of the 2013 inaugural Publication Prize awarded by the...

Approaches to the playtext applied to the works of Calderon and his contemporaries. The focus of this book falls less on performance and more on how the playtext may be approached from a theatrical...

The 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 nation...

The principal developments in Spanish American poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. Providing a basis for understanding the main lines of development of poetry in Spanish America after...

The 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 el...

Women's poetry of the Spanish early modern period. This collection of fourteen scholarly essays on women's poetry from Spain's early modern period shows that women did indeed have a Golden Age, and...

A new guide to Spain's most popular and dynamic medium, which celebrates its fiftieth anniversary in 2006. Any follower of Spanish cinema who turns to television finds that the locally produced...

The so-called Cancionero de la Sablonara is a highly selective manuscript collection of seventy-five Spanish polyphonic art-songs, composed primarily at the Spanish Court during the first quarter of...

How 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 of...

Breden shifts the focus of academic study away from product and towards process, demonstrating how an understanding of process assists in the reading of the theatrical product. The rehearsal...

By highlighting features common to the Gothic classics and the works of Adelaida Garc?a Morales, this monograph aims to put the Gothic on the map in Hispanic Studies. The Gothic as a literary mode...

This book proposes a new way of tracing the history of the Early Modern Spanish novel through the prism of literary continuation. It identifies and examines the Golden Age narratives that invented...

A fresh approach to the mester de clerec?a, a group of narrative poems (epics, hagiography, romances) composed in thirteenth-century Spain by university-trained clerics for the edification and...

Howard demonstrates that Machiavellian discourse had a profound impact on early modern Spanish prose treatises. Arguing against historians of Spanish political thought that have neglected recent...

OrIoff shows that Cort?zar 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 Cort?zar's...

A guide to the interpretation of the Golden-Age ballad. Collections of traditional Spanish ballads were made in the early seventeenth century; some recorded directly from singers, others reworked by...

An important contribution to the understanding of the theatrical output of major figure of Spanish literary canon. Drawing on anthropology, psychoanalysis, and literary theory, this book uses the...

Challenges the view that that the Moriscos of Spain made little or no attempt to assimilate to the majority Christian culture around them, and that this led to their expulsion between 1609 and 1614...

An account of the critical reception of G?ngora's Soledad primerain the 17c. Luis de G?ngora completed the first version of his Soledad primera in the spring of 1613. Immediately his poem became the...

El libro analiza la relaci?n entre vanguardia y humorismo gr?fico en dos periodos hist?ricos cr?ticos: la Guerra Civil Espa?ola (1936-1939) y los primeros a?os de la Revoluci?n Cubana (1959-1961). ...

Essays on motifs employed in women's novels from Spain and Latin America between 1936 and the present. An analysis of the use made of five structuring devices, or motifs - the Bildungsroman, the...

This study in the interdisciplinary field of law and literature analyses the representation of law in the work of twentieth-century Spanish writer Carmen de Burgos (1867-1932). This study in the...

This book examines one collection of saints' lives, or sanctorals, and the twenty-five female saints witnessed therein. Included in the study are transcriptions of twenty-two previously unedited...