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.

"Drawing on critics ranging from Bakhtin and Curtius to Harold Bloom and Maria Corti, Orphans of Petrarch offers extended discussions of these major poets, and a net exposition of the development of Spanish Renaissance poetics, from the point of view of modern critical theory. Contributing to the discussion about imitation and belatedness, and grounded in both philology and cultural theory, it is the first book to integrate the "Spanish difference" into an understanding of Renaissance lyric as a European phenomenon."--BOOK JACKET.

This collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet is “a major contribution to the body of literature grappling with Vietnam” (Poetry). Yusef Komunyakaa is renowned for his ability to blend memory and history with strikingly evocative poetic imagery. Born in the rural community of Bogalusa, Louisiana, Komunyakaa served in Vietnam as a correspondent and editor of The Southern Cross and received a Bronze Star for his service as a journalist. In Dien Cai Dau, he applies this unique sensibility to his experience of the Vietnam War. The resulting poems have been called some of the finest Vietnam testimony ever documented in verse or prose. “So finely tuned are Komunyakaa’s images, so faultless his vision, that the reader sees precisely what the poet recalls . . . A powerful must-read for those who have forgotten those days.” ―Booklist