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Monografías publishes critical studies covering a wide range of topics in the literature, culture and history of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America from the Middle Ages to the present day. It aims to promote intellectually stimulating and innovative scholarship that will make a major contribution to the fields of Hispanic and Lusophone studies. Work on un- or under-explored sources and themes or utilising new methodological and theoretical approaches, as well as interdisciplinary studies, are particularly encouraged. Both monographs and essay collections, in English, Spanish, English/Spanish or English/Portuguese, are welcome.

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173 results in Monografías A

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Mujeres épicas españolas

The Comedia in English

Childhood in the Works of Silvina Ocampo and Alejandra Pizarnik
  • Fiona J. Mackintosh
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    16 February 2023
    Print publication:
    27 November 2003
  • Two key figures of Argentine twentieth-century literature are brought together in this study, which explores the leitmotiv of childhood in their work.

Mujer pública y vida privada
  • del arte eunuco a la novela lupanaria
  • Pura Fernández
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    16 February 2023
    Print publication:
    19 June 2008
  • La profunda fractura entre moral privada y moral pública en la cultura española entre 1843 y 1900.

Rewriting the Italian Novella in Counter-Reformation Spain
  • Carmen Rabell
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    16 February 2023
    Print publication:
    20 November 2003
  • The contradiction between the form of the (adapted) novella and its content intended a challenge to the rules and regulations of Counter-Reformation Spain.

The Plays of Juan Ruiz de Alarcón
  • Jules Whicker
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    16 February 2023
    Print publication:
    06 November 2003
  • Alarcón defends the comedia against criticsm through his definition of illusion as a moral art - a stance evident in his plays.

Women in the Prose of María de Zayas

Épica y conflicto religioso en el siglo XVI

Imagining Ecuador
  • Crisis, Transnationalism and Contemporary Fiction
  • Luis A. Medina Cordova
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 December 2022
    Print publication:
    29 November 2022
  • How are contemporary authors reimagining the idea of 'Ecuador' following the worst financial crisis in the nation's history, and how do countries on the periphery of the global literary market challenge and enrich World Literature?

Seneca's Medea and Republican Spain
  • Performing the Nation
  • Oliver Baldwin
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    07 October 2022
    Print publication:
    18 February 2022
  • Based on extensive archival research and containing rare and previously unpublished photos, this book provides the most detailed reconstruction ever of one of the most important events in Spanish theatrical history.

A Companion to Lope de Vega

A Companion to Catalan Culture

A Companion to Gabriel García Márquez

The Borges Enigma

A Companion to Catalan Literature
  • Arthur Terry
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    26 May 2022
    Print publication:
    01 November 2021
  • The first and only guide in English to the influential body of Catalan literature, from the middle ages to the present day.

The Epic Mirror
  • Poetry, Conflict Ethics and Political Community in Colonial Peru
  • Imogen Choi
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    26 May 2022
    Print publication:
    18 February 2022
  • How did Spanish-American writers and veterans in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century use epic poetry to search for ethical solutions to the violent conflicts of their age?

Hybrid Identity and the Utopian Impulse in the Postmodern Spanish-American Comic Novel
  • Paul R. McAleer
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    07 May 2022
    Print publication:
    16 July 2015
  • An important but often overlooked function of comedy is its intrinsic relation to questions of identity. This relationship, furthermore, is connected to another traditional feature of comedy: the utopian impulse. This book analyses these functions of comedy in the novels of four key postmodern Spanish-American writers: Gustavo Sainz, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Fernando Vallejo and Jaime Bayly. Focusing on the correlation between changing concepts of identity and the hybrid cultural context of the late 20th-century, it examines the issues of individual and social identities expressed by these authors in their inscription and distortion of the comic genre as well as in their usage of different modes of comedy. It views the novels' comic aspects as symptoms of hybridity, which, according to many theorists, have brought about the dissolution of concepts, such as the self and society, and utopian modernity. These symptoms are studied in tandem with the individual themes of the novels, such as gender, sexuality, class and global migration, as well as the 'post-national' question of Peruvian, Colombian and Mexican identity.

    Paul McAleer is Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Hull.

Homosexuality and Invisibility in Revolutionary Cuba
  • Reinaldo Arenas and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
  • María Encarnación López
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    07 May 2022
    Print publication:
    18 June 2015
  • This work offers an alternative insight into the longstanding and conflicting relationship between politics and the (gay) intelligentsia in Cuba by looking closely at political texts, film, documentaries and literature from prior to Fidel Castro's regime until the present day. The book offers new readings of the work, letters and interviews of two influential voices, Reinaldo Arenas and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. Arenas's material reveals a new account of the nature of 'the voice of the invisibles' and the key elements of the construction of a Cuban national rhetoric that looks at (governmental) power and (gay) resistance as being in perpetual tension, which often increases the feeling of moral panic and even social exclusion and displacement among citizens. The book also offers a new interpretation of Gutiérrez Alea's renowned film Fresa y Chocolate (1994), resulting from the use of unpublished and revealing testimonies of the Cuban dance critic and writer Roger Salas and the secret messages inferred in his short story 'Helados de pasión: El cordero, la lluvia y el hombre desnudo' (1998).

    Dr María E. López is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies and Sociology at London Metropolitan University and an Associate Fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of London.

Vanguardia y humorismo gráfico en crisis
  • La Guerra Civil Española (1936-1939) y la Revolución Cubana (1959-1961)
  • Jorge L. Catalá-Carrasco
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    18 June 2021
    Print publication:
    17 December 2015
  • El libro analiza la relación entre vanguardia y humorismo gráfico en dos periodos históricos críticos: la Guerra Civil Española (1936-1939) y los primeros años de la Revolución Cubana (1959-1961). Secentra en los periódicos y la llamada prensa de trincheras en España orientada a un público adulto, tanto en el bando republicano (No Veas, Trincheras, L'Esquella de la Torratxa, entre otras) como enel nacional (Vértice y La Ametralladora). En la parte dedicada a Cuba, el análisis se centra en el diario Revolución y en la revista de humor vanguardista El Pitirre, que discurrió paralela al suplemento cultural Lunes de Revolución y corrió similar suerte cuando tanto Lunes como El Pitirre fueron clausurados en 1961. El enfoque del libro traza la trayectoria de la vanguardia en el humorismo gráfico en ambos periodos, cuando el compromiso político y la militancia desplazaron paulatinamente el desarrollo de la vanguardia estética. La especial coyuntura socio-política planteó retos a los artistas gráficos de índole ideológico y estético-conceptual, estableciendo áreas de contacto e influencia entre España y Cuba.

    The book studies the relation between the avant-garde and graphic humour in two critical historical periods: the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the early years of the Cuban Revolution (1959-1961). It focuses on the so-called war magazines in Spain on the Republican side (No Veas, Trincheras, and L'Esquella de la Torratxa, among others) and the Francoist side (Vértice and La Ametralladora). In the part devoted to Cuba, the analysis covers the newspaper Revolución and the avant-garde humour magazine El Pitirre, which ran simultaneously to the cultural supplement Lunes de Revolución and shared the same fate when Lunes and El Pitirre were closed down in 1961. The book unveils the trajectory of the avant-garde graphic humour in both periods, when the political commitment progressively overshadowed the development of the aesthetic avant-garde. The special socio-political conjuncture posed ideological and aesthetic-conceptual challenges to graphic artists, establishing contact areas and influences between Spain and Cuba.

    Jorge L. Catalá Carrasco es Lecturer in Hispanic Studies en Newcastle University.

Poder y escritura femenina en tiempos del Conde-Duque de Olivares (1621-1643)
  • el desafío religioso de Teresa Valle
  • Laura S. Muñoz Pérez
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 June 2021
    Print publication:
    19 November 2015
  • Co-Winner of the 2014 Publication Prize of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland

    Esta monografía revela la importancia de las mujeres en la política y cultura dela corte española por medio del caso de Teresa Valle, consejera espiritual de Olivares, el favorito de Felipe IV. A través del análisis de fuentes originales como son cartas, escritos literarios e inquisitoriales, la autora demuestra que las relaciones entre poderosos nobles y religiosas fue también un elemento esencial de mecenazgo barroco. Se trataba, entre otros, de un medio de publicidad y poder para ellos y una vía de acceso a la cultura para ellas. Además, la autora analiza los escritos de Teresa, revelando su identidad literaria. El camino de la monja por los resortes literarios permite que se definan nuevos métodos de estudio de la escritura femenina y de las estrategias discursivas que utilizaron las religiosas de la época.

    This monograph reveals the importance of women in political and cultural life at the Spanish court through the case of Teresa Valle, spiritual counsellor of Olivares, the favourite of King Philip IV. Through an analysis of diverse primary sources such as letters, literary writings and Inquisition records, the author demonstrates how relations between noblemen and religious women formed a key aspect of Baroque patronage and exchange, forming an essential tool of publicity and power for the former, and a way of access to the literary domain for the latter. At the heart of this book there is a study of the writings that Teresa produced, revealing her emerging literary identity. The nuns path into literature also allows the author to define new ways of understanding female writing in Golden Age Spain and clarify the discursive strategies that religious women negotiated.

    Laura S. Muñoz Pérez is currently a Lecturer at the University of Oxford.

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