Spanish Language & Literature

Contributions of Iberian-born writers have gone largely unrecognized by most European and American readers. The rich history of literary achievements in the Iberian Penninsula is now available in this unprecedented dictionary. Defining literature in the broad sense, the Dictionary includes historical, religious, cultural and philosophical writings as well as prose, poetry, and drama from the Iberian Peninsula. Virtually all entries have been composed by noted scholars and are complemented wherever possible by bibliographies of primary texts and selected critical studies as well as existing English translations of primary texts. This two-volume work generally includes literature from the tenth century to the mid-1980s and--with a few exceptions--is limited to writers born in the Iberian Peninsula. A guide to determining the format of the Dictionary was the classic Diccionario de Literatura Espanola by German Bleiberg and Julian Marias. But this updated and reworked version devotes more attention to writings by formerly neglected or forgotten works by female authors and to writers in major languages other than Spanish in the peninsula, including Portuguese, Catalan and Galician. There are also entries on major time periods, movements, and other topics. Titles of works discussed are translated to English. Wherever possible, the text of each entry is followed by a three part bibliography; and some cross-referencing. The Dictionary will appeal to English-speaking non-specialists as well as scholars of Iberian literature.

In-depth bibliographies that conclude each entry complement this work’s biographies.

Contains four sections: 1 Anglophone Literature from the Caribbean; 2 Francophone Literature from the Caribbean; 3 Literatures of the Netherlands Antilles and Surinam; 4 Spanish-Language Literature from the Caribbean. Each section includes one or more introductory essays, biographical/critical entries for individual authors, and supplementary lists of bibliographies, critical studies, and selected journals.

Combining assiduous attention to biography and bibliography with original literary criticism oriented toward feminist theory, this volume profiles and analyzes fifty significant women writers of Spain--some celebrated and some overlooked--from the fourteenth century to the present. The work includes poets, fiction writers, dramatists, and essayists. Lives and works are examined with reference to complex issues surrounding gender, creativity, and social mores. Partly informed by findings of the fifty contributing scholars, Levine and Marson have also provided a volume introduction interpreting herstory in terms of Spanish culture, likening the struggle for identity and artistic expression in an engendered world to balancing on a tightrope. Extensive bibliographies for each writer document original works, modern editions and translations, and criticism; and a general bibliography selects valuable sources pertaining to Spanish women writers and gender-related topics.

El Bildungsroman apareció por primera vez en Alemania a finales del siglo dieciocho. Al principio el término se aplicaba a una manifestación literaria estrictamente limitada tanto por el contexto cultural como por el género del protagonista. Este estudio examina la plausibilidad de la existencia del género en una forma contemporánea y femenina. A través de las teorías francofeministas de Julia Kristeva, Hélène Cixous, y Luce Irigaray aplicadas a la obra narrativa de Isabel Allende, Fanny Buitrago, y Alessandra Luiselli la autora demuestra el indiscutible éxito de estas escritoras al reconfigurar el antiguo género. Al mismo tiempo el tratamiento analítico en este texto intenta iniciar una perspectiva más íntegramente erudita, más teórica del généro.

A comprehensive encyclopedia of Latin American literature with emphasis on the critical evaluation of individual writers. Each section is a dictionary of authors, giving for each a biographical sketch, an evaluative critical summary, and a bibliography of works by and about the person.

This resource provides personal, career and publication information on more than 400 20th-century Hispanic American authors from Spain, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico and the Spanish-speaking countries of South and Central America.

This annotated bio-bibliographical guide provides long-overdue recognition for women writers of Spain, including special entries on those writing in Catalan and Galician. By familiarizing readers with the content and meaning of selected works by three hundred such writers, readers and students of Spanish literature now have access to works which may be judged as excellent examples of the literature of their age, yet have previously received little or no attention. Through the efforts of seventy-nine specialists in Spanish literature, each of these writers is summarized in a brief biographical sketch and overview of her work, followed by an in-depth analysis, including complete biographical data and descriptive annotations for the major works. While some women writers from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries are included, this guide concentrates primarily on authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, providing for the first time an extensive and comprehensive listing for the present century. The abundance of information in this guide is made accessible through four appendixes: a chronological list of authors; a list of Catalan authors; a list of Galician authors; and an index of translated titles in this bio-bibliography.

With this latest installment, Nelly Sfeir v. de Gonzalez has completed her triology of bibliographies on Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Born in Colombia in 1927, Garcia Marquez has become one of the most outstanding and influential novelists of the 20th century. He has received numerous awards, including the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature. His work has generated an enormous amount of scholarship and his writings are part of the curricula taught in most American colleges and universities. This third volume presents a comprehensive annotated bibliography of books, articles, and non-print materials by and about Garcia Marquez published between 1992 and 2002. The first part consists of primary sources by Garcia Marquez, while, the second part brings together entries for secondary sources, including reviews.