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An index for the twenty-three issues of Hora de Espana, a literary journal that circulated in Spain between January 1937 and October 1938. It is composed of two main parts: the Introduction contains historical notes about the journal, its founders and topics; and the Index is an alphabetical listing of the authors who wrote for the journal.

Mariselle Melendez studies the dynamics of colonial subject identity construction as elaborated in the exemplary eighteenth-century travel book, El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (A Guide for Inexperienced Travelers ). She analyzes elements of race and gender to argue that they become essential parts of the colonialist project which the author articulates throughout his travel diary by means of the voices of his two narrators: the Spanish Visitador Alonso Carrio de la Vandera and his companion and amanuensis, Calixto Bustamente Carlos Inca. Melendez shows how racial and cultural hybridity...

The central component of this study is an index of the numerous motifs through which topoi of the text as symbol are articulated in the religious poetry, sermons, and sacramental plays of Golden Age Spain. Paired with the index is an anthology of the texts on which the book is based. In her introduction, Louise Salstad discusses the transmission and transformation of the topoi as they appear in the Old and New Testaments, classical literature, church writings, and medieval texts, and she considers the influence of the contemporary milieu on the shaping of these motifs. The book also includes...

Como crecen los hongos ofrece un panorama detallado de la produccion novelistica argentina entre 1838 y 1872, periodo que suele ser caracterizado como particularmente esteril en el genero. Los ochenta y seis textos examinados en estas paginas revelan, sin embargo, la fecunda obra de novelistas ignorados o desdenados por el canon. Molina analiza la novela como una realidad emergente en el sistema cultural del siglo XIX, teniendo en cuenta la produccion, la edicion y la recepcion, la poetica del genero y el estudio de los textos particulares. Minuciosas pesquisas bibliograficas, hemerograficas...