Ann L. Mackenzie

Besides an Introduction, Bibliography and "Centenary Reappraisal", eighteen original articles by respected Hispanists from Britain, Spain and the United States have been collected in this homage volume. A high proportion of articles reflect Peers’ major interests in mysticism and the Romantic Movement. Part I, From the Middle Ages to the Siglo de Oro, includes essays that deal with Francisco de Osuna’s "higher memory", the "Dark Night" of San Juan de la Cruz, Judaeo-Islamic traditions in Luis de León and Miguel de Molinos’ Spiritual Guide. Part II, From the Dawn of Romanticism to the Twentieth Century, contains articles concerned with writers, works or themes as: Sánchez’s Colección and Percy’s Reliques, Rivas and tragedy, El moro expósito, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Victor Hugo and "La Nonne sanglante". An article, dealing comparatively with Goytisolo and Zorrilla, which provides "A Missing Link in the Dis-affiliation of a Post-Romantic Expatriate in Revolt?" aptly concludes the volume.

Essays in Memory of E. Allison Peers

Spain and Its Literature

Paul Preston

L. Mackenzie

There can be little doubting the significance of the Spanish Civil War, both as 'the last great cause' and as a defining moment on the road to the Second World War. In Spain, Mussolini and Hitler drew together in the Rome-Berlin Axis as they witnessed the pusillanimity of the democratic powers. This extensive collection of new research by an international team of scholars engages with the two central facts about the Spanish Civil War: in its origins, it was a series of Spanish social wars; and in its course and outcome, it was an episode in a greater European Civil War that ended in 1945. Uniquely focusing on the Spanish and international reasons for the ultimate defeat of the Second Republic, the chapters of this book show how, for three years, the Republic was besieged from without and from within: from outside, by the forces of international Fascism and their unwitting accomplices among the democratic states; and, from inside, by the forces of the extreme Left whose members put their own revolutionary ambitions before the effort to build a centralized war effort.

Civil War in Spain 1936-1939

The Republic Besieged

Dorothy Sherman Severin

This volume contains thirty-four original research-articles, dealing with varied themes, authors, periods and preoccupations in Hispanic literature, society and culture: More's Utopia and an early Spanish translation, Lope de Vega and Shakespeare, Calderon, Cervantes, Cafes in fortunata y Jacinta, Unamuno, Machado, Baroja and the modernist aesthetic, realism in the post war novel, death and resurrection in Lorca, play into film, Juan Ramon Jimenez, language and cultural identity, reading Valente, Salvador Espriu and Narcis Oller, Eca de Queiroz, Jose Regio and Peruvian poet-novelists.

Ann L. Mackenzie

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