An outstanding collection of award-winning books and authors Santillana USA has compiled a selection of the most popular books in Spanish under the Alfaguara imprint. The world-renowned authors cover a range of genres including novels, short stories, anthologies, and poetry.<P>The struggles and compromises of the common man, the ethics of the intellectual, and the love of man are the ingredients that comprise this first novel by Jose ...

1879. A collection of Basque tales and legends collected by Webster. Contents: Legends of the Tartaro; The Heren-Suge-The Seven-Headed Serpent; Animal Tales; Basa-Jaun, Basa-Andre, and Laminak; Witchcraft and Sorcery; Contes Des Fees; and Religious Tales. Also included, is M. Julien Vinson's Essay on the Basque Language. ...

This volume consists mainly of papers given at an international colloquim held in Oxford in 1994. The meeting discussed textual, musical, palaeographical and iconographical problems of the "Cantiagas de Santa Maria", questioning many views about the relationships between the manuscripts, the evolution of the collections, the source of the music and the place of the collections in relation to artistic and scriptual developments in Europe. ...

This edition of the poetry of Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938) includes an introduction which takes into account the most recent criticism written on the Peruvian poet, an annotated bibiography, and a glossary which explains some of the more difficult and technical terms used by Vallejo. Each of the thirty-eight poems selected is followed by a short commentary in plain English. ...

One of the best-known novelists of his generation both in and outside Spain, Juan Goytisolo has written novels, short stories, and essays that number among the greatest achievements of contemporary Spanish literature. On par with the major novelists of Latin America, Goytisolo produces works so original in presentation and so acerbic in tone that - despite the international acclaim that heralds such texts as John the Landless and Don Julian - ...

Reprint edition of this 1902 study, one of the first in English to investigate Lope de Vega and the tradition of ecclesiastical miracle plays and the connection between church and stage from which he emerged. The work presents both a biographical account of the playwright and an identification and summary of his major works, al of which were essentially unknown at the time of this publication. ...

The treatment of mythological material in the poetry, prose, drama, art and music of the Hispanic Baroque.
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A reading of contemporary women's fiction in Spanish America in which space, rather than time, is seen as the driver of the narrative.
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As a whole, this work diverges from traditional Pessoa criticism by testifying to the importance of corporeal physicality in his heteronymous experiment and to the prominence of representations of (gendered) sexuality in his work. ...

Edla van Steen's intriguing gallery of characters often reflects the twists and turns of her own life and multifaceted career: short story writer, novelist, playwright, translator, scriptwriter, actor, radio announcer, journalist, and promoter of painting and sculpture. Her stories are filled with dramaturgical scenarios and stageworthy monologues and dialogues and at every turn evoke the touch and feel of canvas, collage, and sculpted wood, ...