...Renée M. Silverman Copyright © 2006 The Trustees of Columbia University 2006 Renee M. Silverlnal1 QUESTIONING THE TERRITORY OF MODERNISM: ULTRAiSMO AND THE AESTHETIC OF THE FIRST SPANISH AVANT-GARDE T he prohlell1 of situating the subject in tin1e and space is perhaps a con1monplace in what...

... in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University. Currently he also serves as general editor of Diacritics. Jorge Luis Castillo (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1995) is Associate Professor of Spanish American Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His publications include a critical book...

... el perro." The Fables of Felix Maria Samaniego The importance of Felix Marfa Samaniego (1745-1801) to the Spanish Enlightenment can scarcely be exaggerated. His two volumes of fables, numbering one hundred fifty-seven in all, stand at the center of Spanish Neoclassicism, and remain favorites...

..., that is, renegades who rejected Christianity and Spanish rule, "standing away" from the imposition of colonial power.2 As Jose Rabasa convincingly argues, apostasy is a unique category of being "without history," for apostates reject their forced incorporation into universal history that Christian baptism...

...Hilaire Kallendorf Copyright © 2004 The Trustees of Columbia University 2004 Hilaire Kallendorf "~QUE HE DE HACER THE COMEDIA AS CASUISTRY T he Spanish Golden Age comedia as a genre has proven notoriously difficult to explain fully. Since Lope de Vega first published in the early seventeenth...

..., Spanish religious and secular bureaucrats-modernity's vanguard-fashioned institutions to rule over colonized peoples and over the subjects of a slowly emerging nation. "Race-thinking" was at the core of these imperial and national designs, and "the heretical," as it turns out, was intrinsic to race...

... autobiographical texts from the Peninsular War (1808–14), in which Spanish guerrillas successfully repelled French invaders with the aid of British forces, dealing a decisive blow to Napoleon’s imperial ambitions. Her sources include French and British memoirs as well as lesser-known Spanish ones and a smattering...

... the fact that in large Romance language departments, the Italianists are almost always outnumbered by those who teach Spanish and French (if not Portuguese)? And should Italian fit by virtue of its distinctiveness-or by what Paul Ricoeur, in an essay to which I will return, calls its "comparabilities?" 1...

... subjects, collectively associated with the plebe or vulgo. To illustrate the attitude of the colonial elite toward the urban lower class, Rama cites a passage from the Mexican Creole scholar Sigiienza y Gongora's 1692 letter to his friend the Admiral Pez, at the time a resident in the Spanish court...

... published, this beginning passage of Carmen announces the subject of two worlds: ancient and modern but also Spain and France. The name of Julius Caesar's Munda differs by only one letter from the Spanish word for world, mundo; and the name of the Spanish town Monda is notably similar to the French word...

... Peruvienne is an epistolary novel consisting for the most part of the letters Inca Princess Zilia writes to her Inca fiance and heir to the Inca throne Aza after their separation in the aftermath of Spanish colonization of sixteenth-century Peru. Bound to Spain like Aza, Zilia is, however, "rescued" from...

... Forschungen 109 (1997): 383-426. 12. The call to steer to port is not reflected in the Spanish adaptation of the poem; La Estoria del Rrey Guillelme, in Dos obras didacticas y dos leyendas, ed. Hermann Knust, Madrid, M. Ginesta, 1878,223. 13. Der festlandische Bueve de Hantone, Fassung III, ed. Albert...

... examples of that genre. The first three historical novels in Spanish literature spring from motives that clearly distinguish each work by something more significant than their dates of publication or the Romantic nature of their content. In an attempt to describe these respective unique qualities, I should...

... of the concepts used in languages that cannot be reduced to concrete grammars, but that in turn examine the limits of grammar itself. In this respect, Heusch's article on the Libra de Buen Amar is particularly illuminating. Heusch takes this classic in Spanish letters as a point of reference for the construction...

...Rodrigo Cacho Casal Copyright © 2007 The Trustees of Columbia University 2007 Rodrigo Cacho Casal GONGORA IN ARCADIA: SANNAZARO AND THE PASTORAL MODE OF THE SOLEDADES T he Soledades stands as one of the most revolutionary and innovative poems of the Spanish Golden Age. Gongora created...

... of the tongue of Dante and the tongue of Goethe. For German thought, Italian thought, do not at all live under the helmets; like their free sisters, they must let their hair flow freely in the wind. Our Association, which has just organized, at the moment of the Spanish misfortune, the rescue...

... concerned,2 was simply not valid for Spain or for her former colonies in Spanish America. Citing the centuries-long process of Moorish influence on Spain (but overlooking that country's early twentieth-century colonial wars in north Africa and subsequent periodic outbursts of racism), Kushigian insists...

... common provenance from Latin and Romania. The contemporary realities of Spanish and Hispanic culture in the United States, or the specificity of the myriad issues attendant to the negotiations that French society is currently engaged in as it deals with the intractable heterogeneous cultures in its midst...

... language is studied, if at all, in Spanish departments and has even become a part of Hispanic studies; we could go on ad nauseam trying to fit pieces of what Walther von Wartburg certified as La Fragmentation finguistique de La Romania within the disciplinary boundaries of academic departments as they have...

..., in the Peninsula. This phenomenon forced Lope to engage more seriously the profession of poetry writing and its implications both for himself as an individual creator of literature, and for the Spanish reading public as a whole. Lope treats this and other poetic issues in La Circe, and what will emerge from...