Recently added articles from Hispanic Review:
Revealing beauty/revealing history in El sueno de Venicia.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... To find something beautiful is to register the kinship between the object and the most important part of oneself--one's soul. --John Armstrong, The Secret Power of Beauty ABSTRACT Paloma Diaz-Mas's El sueno de Venecia is a historical novel that traces not only ...
Confinement, consolation, and confession in Galdos's La desheredada.(Galdos, Benito Perez)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This article examines the motif of confinement in Galdos's La desheredada (1881) as an anxious commentary on socio-political structures in Restoration Spain and on the writer's literary form in this novel. The objective of the study is to show that Galdos's appraisal of successive ...
The politics of form: three twentieth-century Spanish American poets and the sonnet.(Alfonsina Storni, Enrique Lihn, and Reinaldo Arenas)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This article engages the idea of poetic form to create a dialogue among three very different twentieth-century Spanish American poets: Argentine Alfonsina Storni, Chilean Enrique Lihn, and Cuban Reinaldo Arenas. Each of them uses the sonnet's privileged position in Western ...
Denuncia y univocidad: la narracion del trujillato.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... La Efrain K. RESUMEN Este ensayo hace un recorrido por las variadas modulaciones que adopta la representacion literaria de la dictadura de Trujillo a traves del tiempo: entre la denuncia y la univocidad. Las distintas formas que adquiere esta ficcion dan cuenta de la complejidad ...
Indeterminacy and the subversive in representations of the trujillato.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The mid-twentieth-century dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo established in the Dominican Republic one of the most hermetically tyrannical states in the history of Latin America. The most well-known literary reconstruction in Spanish of that regime is La fiesta del Chivo by Mario ...
Zamora, Lois Parkinson. The Inordinate Eye: New World Baroque and Latin American Fiction.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... ZAMORA, LOIS PARKINSON. The Inordinate Eye: New World Baroque and Latin American Fiction. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006. xxiii + 420 pp. The sumptuously produced, clothbound volume The Inordinate Eye: New World Baroque and Latin American Fiction offers a fusion of literary ...
MCGovern, Timothy. Galdos Beyond Realism: Reading and the Creation of Magical Worlds.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... MCGOVERN, TIMOTHY. Galdos beyond Realism: Reading and the Creation of Magical Worlds. Newark: Juan de la Cuesta, 2004. 227 pp. This book is an exploration of inverisimilitude in Benito Perez Galdos's works, but by studying the supposed limits of realism, and their transgression, ...
Perez-Sanchez, Gema. Queer Transitions in Contemporary Spanish Culture: From Franco to "La Movida.".(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... PEREZ-SANCHEZ, GEMA. Queer Transitions in Contemporary Spanish Culture: From Franco to "La Movida." New York: State U of New York P, 2007. 257 PP. Queer Transitions in Contemporary Spanish Culture constitutes an important and timely addition to the growing field of queer studies ...
Books received.
Sep 22, 2008 ... Alarcon Sierra, Rafael. El mal poema de Manuel Machado: una lirica moderna y dialogica. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2008. Alvarez Barrientos, Joaquin, ed. La Guerra de la Independencia en la cultura espanola. Madrid: Siglo XXI, 2008. Arias Montano, Benito. Sermones ...
?Fue moderna la literatura Espanola del siglo XVIII? Analisis de la evaluacion decimononica.
Jun 22, 2008; ... RESUMEN La evaluacion de la literatura espanola setecentista experimenta una significativa evolucion durante el periodo decimononico. En el primer tercio del siglo XIX el paradigma romantico favorece interpretaciones que senalan los vinculos de las letras dieciochescas con habitos ...
Boedo circense: Leonidas Barletta, Raul Gonzalez Tunon, and the limits of tradition.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The circus and circensian practices lend themselves particularly well to the Latin American avant--gardes as privileged proletarian spaces encompassing both the "crafty" extreme of carnival--in Bakhtin's sense of subversive and artisan--as well as the commercial, technological ...
The case for nostalgia and sentimentality in Manuel Vazquez Montalban's "Serie Carvalho".(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This article engages with Joan Ramon Resina's negative critique of Manuel Vdzquez Montalban's representation of Barcelona in the 'Serie Carvalho.' Based on a detailed analysis of competing philosophical interpretations of nostalgia and sentimentality, the article suggests that ...
Pasillos sin luz: reading the asylum in Nadie me vera llorar by Cristina Rivera Garza.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Mexican historian and literary writer Cristina Rivera Garza approaches the space of the asylum not as a monolithic mechanism of rigid control and silence, but as a continual negotiation of bodies and words. The characters in her 1999 novel Nadie me verd forar improvise their own ...
Vollendorf, Lisa. The Lives of Women: A New History of Inquisitional Spain.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... VOLLENDORF, LISA. The Lives of Women: A New History of Inquisitional Spain. Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 2005. 292 pages. In The Lives of Women, Lisa Vollendorf sets out to recover the voices of early modern Spanish women through an innovative mix of archival and literary records ....
Smith, Theresa Ann. The Emerging Female Citizen: Gender and Enlightenment in Spain.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... SMITH, THERESA ANN. The Emerging Female Citizen: Gender and Enlightenment in Spain. Berkeley: U of California P, 20oo. xiii + 309 pages. This excellent study invites us to spend time with a group of upper--class, largely educated, imaginative, and hard--working Spanish women ...
Julia, Mercedes. Las ruinas del pasado: aproximaciones a la novela historica posmoderna.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... JULIA, MERCEDES. Las ruinas del pasado: aproximaciones a la novela historica posmoderna. Madrid: Ediciones de la Torre, 2006. 222 pages. History has long served writers as a storage bin of raw materials: it has offered poignant realities often buttressed by documents and ...
Laddaga, Reinaldo. Estetica de la emergencia.(Book review)
Jun 22, 2008; ... LADDAGA, REI NALDO. Estetica de la emergencia. Buenos Aires: Adriana Hidalgo, 2006. 296 pp. y Espectaculos de realidad. ensayo sobre la narrativa latinoamericana de las ultimas dos decadas. Rosario, Argentina: Beatriz Viterbo, 2007. 160 pp. Si todo libro puede ser enganoso en ...
Book received.
Jun 22, 2008 ... Alvarez Borland, Isabel. See Jorge J.E. Gracia. Ayala, Francisco. De toda la vida: relatos escogidos. Ed. Carolyn Richmond. Barcelona: Tusquets, 2006. Basurto, Fernando. Florindo. Ed. Alberto del Rio Nogueras. Alcala de Henares: Centro de Estudios Cervantinos, 2007. ...