Table of Contents:
  • The prodigal "I" : Lazarillo de Tormes as cultural analyst / Ruth Anthony El Saffar
  • The Oedipus myth : Lacan and dream interpretation in La vida es sueño / Henry W. Sullivan
  • Humanism, colonialism and the formation of the ideology of the literary : on Garcsilaso's Sonnet 23, "En tanto que de rosa y azucena" / John Beverley
  • Bearing motherhood : representations of the maternal in Emilia Pardo Bazán's Los pazos de Ulloa / Lou Charnon-Deutsch
  • Aspects of an improper birth : Clarín's La regenta / Noël Valis
  • Nation, narration, naturalization : a Barthesian critique of the 1898 generation / Jo Labanyi
  • As if by magic : the power of masculine discourse in Doña Bárbara / Mark I. Millington
  • Pre-post eros : on reading love poetry before and after theory : from Pablo Neruda to Susana Thénon / Bernard J. McGuirk
  • Almodóvar's Matador : power, pleasure and the frenzy of the visible / Paul Julian Smith.