Up-to-date Coverage of the scope and extent of the important tradition of Arthurian material in Iberian languages and of the modern scholarship on it. (= Wide-ranging bibliographical coverage and guide to both texts and research on them.) Written by Specialists in the different Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula (Portuguese, Catalan, Galician, Spanish and its dialects). (= Expert analysis of different traditions by leading scholars from Spain and the UK.) Wide-ranging Study not only of medieval and Renaissance literary texts, but also of modern Arthurian fiction, of the global spread of Arthurian legends in the Spanish and Portuguese worlds, and of the social impact of the legends through adoption of names of Arthurian characters and imitation of practices narrated in the legends. (=A comprehensive guide to both literary and social impact of Arthurian material in major world languages.)

The fictional Don Quixote was constantly defeated in his knightly adventures. In writing Quixote's story, however, Miguel Cervantes succeeded in a different kind of quest — the creation of a modern novel that ‘conquers’ and assimilates countless literary genres. /spanDon Quixote among the Saracens considers how Cervantes's work reflects the clash of civilizations and anxieties towards cultural pluralism that permeated Golden Age Spain. Frederick A. de Armas unravels an essential mystery of one of world literature's best known figures: why Quixote sets out to revive knight errantry, and why he comes to feel at home only among the Moorish ‘Saracens,’ a people whom Quixote feared at the beginning of the novel. De Armas also reveals Quixote's inner conflicts as both a Christian who vows to battle the infidel, but also a secret Saracen sympathizer. While delving into genre theory, Don Quixote among the Saracens adds a new dimension to our understandings of Spain's multicultural history.

A History of the Spanish Novel is the only volume in English that offers comprehensive coverage of the history of the Spanish novel, from the sixteenth century to the present day, with chapters written by some of the world-leading experts in the field.

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture introduces the intellectual and artistic breadth of early modern Spain from a range of disciplinary and critical perspectives. Spanning the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (a period traditionally known as the Golden Age), the volume examines topics including political and scientific culture, literary and artistic innovations, and religious and social identities and institutions in transformation. The 36 chapters of the volume include both expert overviews of key topics and figures from the period as well as new approaches to understudied questions and materials. This invaluable resource will be of interest to advanced students and scholars in Hispanic studies, as well as Renaissance and early modern studies more generally.

Aventuras de libros de caballerías reúne episodios de libros conocidos de la tradición caballeresca española (Tirant lo Blanch, de Joan Martorell. Amadís de Gaula, de Rodríguez de Montalvo. Palmerín de Olivia. Claribalte, de Fernández de Oviedo. Belianís de Grecia, de Jerónimo Fernández) y otros menos populares (Lisuarte de Grecia, Amadís de Grecia, Florisel de Niquea, de Feliciano de Silva. Primaleón. Renaldos de Montalbán, de Luis Domínguez. La Trapesonda. Cirongilio de Tracia, de Bernardo de Vargas. Don Cristalián de España, de Beatriz Bernal...) que configuran una amplia y heterogénea muestra del género. Permiten, además, comprender las variadas aportaciones cervantinas, sus burlas y parodias, su censura de los valores caballerescos. Con dicha finalidad, incluimos los pasajes más conocidos de la inmortal novela (Andrés y Juan Haldudo, los molinos de viento, los galeotes, los cueros de vino, la cueva de Montesinos, Clavileño, el gobierno de Sancho en la ínsula Barataria, la cabeza encantada, etc.) y también un conjunto multicolor de aventuras que permiten calibrar la ironía, la inventiva y el humor cervantinos (la graciosa manera en que don Quijote se arma caballero, los batanes, el ataque a los disciplinantes, el combate con el Caballero del Bosque, los leones...). La edición se completa con numerosas actividades de comprensión de los textos. ejercicios de recapitulación. comentario de texto. ilustraciones originales, procedentes de la Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid. y glosarios, índices genealógicos y onomásticos a fin de que los lectores puedan ubicar a los personajes en el contexto adecuado.

In Self-Fashioning and Assumptions of Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia, editor Laura Delbrugge and contributors Jaume Aurell, David Gugel, Michael Harney, Daniel Hartnett, Mark Johnston, Albert Lloret, Montserrat Piera, Zita Rohr, Núria Silleras-Fernández, Caroline Smith, Wendell P. Smith, and Lesley Twomey explore the applicability of Stephen Greenblatt's self-fashioning theory, framed in Elizabethan England, to medieval and early modern Portugal, Aragon, and Castile. Chapters examine self-fashioning efforts by monarchs, religious converts, nobles, commoners, and clergy in the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries to establish the presence of self-identity creation in many new contexts beyond that explored in Greenblatt's Renaissance Self-Fashioning, greatly expanding the understanding of self-fashioning on diverse aspects of identity creation in late medieval and early modern Iberia.

Book History has emerged as one of the most exciting new interdisciplinary fields of study in the humanities. By focusing on the production, circulation and reception of the book in all its forms, it has transformed the study of history, literature and culture. The Broadview Book History Reader is the most complete and up-to-date introduction available to this area of study. The reader reprints 33 key essays in the field, grouped conceptually and provided with headnotes, explanatory footnotes, an introduction, a chronology, and a glossary of terms.