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A comprehensive, multidisciplinary view of history and culture from prehistoric times to the present.

Data on historical figures and events.

A panorama of Latin American history from its beginning to the present.

A country by country look at political history and key personalities.

Brief biographies of public figures prominent in Mexican political life.

A thousand articles about people, events, works, and institutions from the fall of the Roman Empire to the aftermath of the Reconquista.

Writers, works, and topics.
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Profiles more than thirty Spanish poets of the twentieth century, presenting primary and secondary bibliographies and illustrated biographical essays that chronicle each writer's career in detail.

An authoritative review of literary biography covering the seventeenth century to the twentieth century A Companion to Literary Biography offers a comprehensive account of literary biography spanning the history of the genre across three centuries. The editor - an esteemed literary biographer and noted expert in the field - has encouraged contributors to explore the theoretical and methodological questions raised by the writing of biographies of writers. The text examines how biographers have dealt with the lives of classic authors from Chaucer to contemporary figures such as Kingsley Amis. The Companion brings a new perspective on how literary biography enables the reader to deal with the relationship between the writer and their work. Literary biography is the most popular form of writing about writing, yet it has been largely neglected in the academic community. This volume bridges the gap between literary biography as a popular genre and its relevance for the academic study of literature. This important work: Allows the author of a biography to be treated as part of the process of interpretation and investigates biographical reading as an important aspect of criticism Examines the birth of literary biography at the close of the seventeenth century and considers its expansion through the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries Addresses the status and writing of literary biography from numerous perspectives and with regard to various sources, methodologies and theories Reviews the ways in which literary biography has played a role in our perception of writers in the mainstream of the English canon from Chaucer to the present day Written for students at the undergraduate level, through postgraduate and doctoral levels, as well as academics, A Companion to Literary Biography illustrates and accounts for the importance of the literary biography as a vital element of criticism and as an index to our perception of literary history.

Part of the Library of Literary Criticism, these volumes compile international critical commentary, half translated from the Spanish, half written in English.

In these two series, find detailed biographical information, lists of works, and citations for further readings about modern authors, including those active prior to 1960. Ask a librarian how to use the index.

In these two series, find detailed biographical information, lists of works, and citations for further readings about modern authors, including those active prior to 1960. Ask a librarian how to use the index volume.

A panoramic view of Latin American literary history from the colonial period to the present.

330 of the major novelists and poets from Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. Articles include extensive bibliographies of related resources.

400 twentieth-century Hispanic writers