Just Arrived: Naciones intelectuales by Sánchez Prado
27 October 2009
Naciones intelectuales: Las fundaciones de le modernidad literaria mexicana (1917-1959), by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, appeared in October 2009. The study, written in Spanish, explores the emergence of the post-Revolutionary literary field in Mexico, from 1917 to 1959, through the constitution of its key cutural practices. This volume is number 47 for the PSRL series.
Burningham's Radical Theatricality: Jongleuresque Performance on the Early Spanish Stage Reviewed in Hispania
24 July 2009
Radical Theatricality, by Bruce R. Burningham was reviewed in Hispania 91 (Dec. 2008): 816-17 by Zane U. Segle. The reviewer called the book a "comprehenesive and innovative study" and "a refreshing approach to the Western dramatic theory."
Rhetorical Conquests: Cortés, Gómara, and Renaissance Imperialism, by Glen Carman Reviewed in MLN
24 July 2009
Glen Carman's study of reports of the Spanish conquest of Mexico is reviewed by Sara Castro-Klaren in MLN 124.2 (2009): 522-25. She notes: "In deploying Gómara/Cortés as an uneasy tandem, Carman sets up a novel and very productive approach to the procedures by which both Cortés and Gómara bring forth the 'truth' of their accounts."
Latest PSRL book Richard Gordon's Cannibalizing the Colony
30 April 2009
Cannibalizing the Colony: Cinematic Adaptations of Colonial Literature in Mexico and Brazil, by Richard A. Gordon, is the latest volume in the PSRL series. Volume 45 appeared in April. The book studies how and why filmmakers in Brazil and Mexico have appropriated and transformed colonial narratives of European and indigenous contact into commentaries on national identity.
Gutiérrez's La espada, el rayo y la pluma Garners More Reviews
14 April 2009
PSRL's volume 32,
La espada, el rayo y la pluma by Carlos M. Gutiérrez, has received reviews in two more scholarly journals. In Calíope 14.1 (2008), Lía Schwartz concludes that the book "nos permitirá retornar a [la] obra [de Quevedo] desde novísimas perspectivas" (117-42). Encarnación Juárez-Almendros states, in Romance Quarterly 61.2 (2008), that the book accomplishes its announced aim to identify the first Spanish literary field. Juárez-Almendros styles the book "original" and a "very well-conceived investigation" (540-41). This bring the number of full-length review of this book to six.
Enriqueta Zafra Studies the Female Picaresque in Latest PSRL Offering
25 March 2009
In the first full-length study that investigates the discourse on prostitution in both literary and extra-literary sources, Enriqueta Zafra covers the trajectory of the pícara-prostitute in Spain from the early sixteenth to seventeenth centuries. Zafra's Prostituidas por el texto: Discurso prostibulario en la picaresca femenina appeared in December 2008.
Ryan F. Long's New Book Volume 44 in PSRL Series
25 March 2009
Fictions of Totality: The Mexican Novel, 1968, and the National-Popular State, by Ryan F. Long, traces the novel’s waning capacity to render Mexico’s social totality during that nation’s transition from a national-popular to a neoliberal state model. Particular attention is focused on the Mexican government's repression of the Student Movement of 1968. For more, click here.
Calíope Reviews Rhetorical Conquests by Glen Carman
25 March 2009
Rhetorical Conquests by Glen Carman is reviewed in a recent issue of Calíope: Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry. The Reviewer, Galen Brokaw, concluded that Carman's book is a "welcome addition to the literature on Cortés and on the chronicles of the conquest in general." For more, click here.
Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies
Reviews Utopian Dreams by Miguel López-Lozano
24 March 2009
Miguel López-Lozano's Utopian Dreams, Apocalyptic Nightmares receives a thorough review by Paul Fallon in Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 12 (2007): 289–90. For an excerpt, click on the link above.
Books by Bruce Willis, Sarah Gordon, and
Bruce
Burningham Earn Reviews
15 January 2009
New excerpts from reviews have been posted to the following pages: Bruce Willis, Aesthetics of Equilibrium: The Vanguard Poetics of Vincente Huidobro and Mário de Andrade; Sarah Gordon, Culinary Comedy in Medieval French Literature; and Bruce R. Burningham, Radical Theatricality: Jongleuresque Performance on the Early Spanish Stage.
PSRL Book Reviewed: Under Arturo's Star
7 January 2009
Three reviews of a PSRL book published in 2006 have recently appeared on our desk. The book is Under Arturo's Star: The Cultural Legacies of Elsa Morante, a collection of pieces by an international group of scholars. The work was edited by Stefania Lucamante and Sharon Wood. The reviews, spread out over the three years since Under Arturo's Star appeared, are positive reviews from the following journals: Annali d'italianistica, Italica, and Leggendaria. For excerpts, see the PSRL page for Under Arturo's Star.
PSRL 2008-2009 Editorial Board
14 August 2008
We welcome a new editor to our editorial board as Marcia Stephenson joins us to help out with the Spanish American manuscripts. The PSRL Editorial Board as of August 2008, is as follows: Patricia
Hart, Series Editor and Editor for Spanish; Paul B. Dixon, Editor
for Luso-Brazilian; Benjamin Lawton, Editor for Italian; Marcia Stephenson,
Editor for Spanish; Allen G. Wood, Editor for French.
We are pleased to have two consulting editors. Howard Mancing has agreed to help out with
the Golden Age manuscripts. He joins us as Consulting
Editor for Golden Age. Professor Mancing also served as Editor for Spanish
from 1997 to 2004 and as Series Editor from 1987
to 1997.
Floyd Merrell, who is stepping down from full time duties as Editor for Spanish, will act as Consulting Editor for his areas of specialty in Latin America, including Mexico, Brazil, and other topics. He has been Editor for Spanish since 1992 and served as Series Editor form 1997 to 2005.
Both Professor Mancing and Professor Merrell are also on our List of Associate Editors.
Advice
to Authors and Editors
14 July 2008
"Basic Advice for Novice Authors," by Allan H. Pasco, Journal of Scholarly Publishing 33.2 (Jan. 2002): 75-89.
Earlier version in same journal, Jan. 1992.
Sage advice from a scholar and editor who is a past PSRL editor
and still on the PSRL editorial board. This article, though a few
years old, is still valuable. It contains information on what to
look for in a publisher, how to choose among the options available,
what to expect during the evaluation process and once a manuscript
is accepted, and what an author should do to publicize a book. It
includes a discussion of the difficulties facing scholarly publishers.
PSRL issues new book on Immigration
to Spain
14 June 2008
The Return of the Moor: Spanish Responses to Contemporary Moroccan
Immigration, by Daniela Flesler, was published in May 2008.
The book studies Moroccan immigrants to Spain in terms of the anxiety
provoked by their association by Spaniards with the legendary Moors
who occupied the peninsula in AD 711. Flesler compares the historical
record with the stories of the conquest and uses this to shed light
on contemporary problems between the two groups. The Return
of the Moor is listed in The Chronicle Review, 13
June 2008, page B23, Books and Art: Scholarly Books.
Comedia Performance reviews Burningham's
Radical Theatricality
5 May 2008
The theater journal Comedia Performance has published a
review by Susan Paun de García praising Bruce R. Burningham's
Radical Theatricality: Jongleuresque
Performance on the Early Spanish Stage. The reviewer points
out that "Bruce Burningham sets out to [give performance it's
due] in a perceptive and well reasoned consideration of the essence
of performance: the relationship—dialogic in principle—that
exists between performer and spectator." Burningham's study
focuses on the actor as the "hero" of the internal dynamics
of the play. She concludes, "This is a fascinating book, both
entertaining and informative" (Comedia Performance
5.1 (2008): 223-26).
Two More Reviews of Carman's Rhetorical
Conquests
5 May 2008
Revisita de Estudios Hispánicos 42.1 (2008): 180-83
has published a very complimentary review of Glen Carman's Rhetorical
Conquests: Cortés, Gómara, and Renaissance Imperialism.
The reviewer, Raúl Marrero-Fente, concludes "Por la
originalidad y sofisticación de los análisis este
libro de Carman constituye una importante contribución a
los estudios sobre las doctrinas imperialistas de la conqusita de
América" ("For the originality and sophistication
of the analyses, this book by Carman constitutes an important contribution
to studies on the imperialist doctrines of the conquest of America").
For a different take on the book, see Juan F. Maura's review in
Bulletin of Spanish Studies 85 (2008): 238-39.
Quevedo Journal Reviews Gutiérrez's
La espada, el rayo y la pluma
5 February 2008
The journal La Perinola: Revista de Investigación
Quevediana, a scholarly review at the Universidad de Navarra,
has featured Carlos M. Gutiérrez's La
espada, el rayo y la pluma: Quevedo y los campos literario y de
poder in one of their recent issues (11 [2007]: 373-77).
The reviewer praised the study's originality and the documented
picture it presents of the social, cultural, historic, and economic
conditions of the period under consideration:
La presente monografía ... nos ofrece,
desde una óptica muy novedosa en los estudios sobre el
Siglo de Oro y con una coherencia estructural admirable, un meditado
y documentado retrato de las condiciones sociales, culturales,
históricas y económicas del tercio inicial del siglo
XVII en España, espacio en el que se forjó el primer
campo literario español. —Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo,
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Radical Theatricality by Bruce
R. Burningham Reviewed
5 February 2008
Renaissance Quarterly published a review
of Bruce Burningham's Radical
Theatricality: Jongleuresque Performance on the Early Spanish Stage
in issue 60.4 (2007): 1340-42.
Radical Theatricality is a truly original
and insightful work that takes the discussion of theater across
boundaries of national traditions and literary periods. ... Although
the history of Spanish drama is central to Burningham's inquiry,
students of other European theatrical traditions wil find much
food for thought as well in this wide-ranging long view of performance
art.—Margaret R Greer, Duke University
Reviews of Recent PSRL Books Appear in Hispania
29 January 2008
In recent days two authors have alerted us to reviews of their
books appearing in issues of Hispania.
Carlos M. Gutiérrez's La
espada, el rayo y la pluma: Quevedo y los campos literario y de
poder was reviewed in the March 2007 issue.
Gutiérrez shows a great deal of flexibility and
careful thought in adapting Bourdieu's analysis of the nineteenth-century
French literary field to an examination of literature and power
in seventeenth-century Spain...In fact, what is most satisfying
about the present volume is the wide range of materials that Gutiérrez
considers in his analysis.—John Slater, University of Colorado
at Boulder
Glen Carman's Rhetorical Conquests:
Cortés, Gómara, and Renaissance Imperialism
was reviewed in the December 2007 issue.
Despite its focus on the character of Hernán Cortés,
Rhetorical Conquests is a useful analysis of some of
the rhetorical means employed by Francisco López de Gómara
in the crafting of his most controversial, but deeply influential
work. Carman's book...is in this sense part of a recent trend
that seeks to revaluate the work of one of the most important
humanist historians of the early colonial period.—Andrés
I. Prieto, University of Colorado at Boulder
Notices and Reviews of PSRL Books
29 January 2008
The Chronicle Review, January 11, 2008,
Miguel López-Lozano,
Utopian Dreams, Apocalyptic Nightmares: Globalization in Recent
Mexican and Chicano Narrative.
The Chronicle of Higher Education,
December 7, 2007, New Scholarly Books column, page A18,
Emanuelle K. F. Oliveira, Writing
Identity: The Politics of Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Literature.
Art of Subversion, by Manuel
da Costa Fontes, Named Finalist for National Jewish Book Award
23 March 2006
The Jewish Book Council has selected The
Art of Subversion in Inquisitorial Spain: Rojas and Delicado,
by Manuel da Costa Fontes, as a finalist for their 2005 National
Jewish Book Awards in the Sephardic Culture category. The winners
will be presented at a gala dinner on April 26, 2006. We are proud
to congratulate Professor Fontes on this accomplishment.
New Two-Color Covers for Comparative
Volumes
28 October 2006
With the publication of Bruce Dean Willis's
Aesthetics of Equilibrium, PSRL introduced two-color
covers for certain volumes. Since this study included one author
from Spanish -speaking South America and another Luso-Brazilian
author, we combined the gold and green colors on the cover. Take
a look
here at the book's Web site to see the result. The book is categorized
on the
Subject Index page of this site as comparative. We see the possibility
of other combinations in the future using the colors of the two
fields involved.
Earlier stories:
Redesigned Covers for PSRL Paperback Editions
1 November 2003
As we move to paperback publication, we have decided to make a change
in the design of our covers. The same colors will be maintained:
blue for French
red for Italian
green for Luso-Brazilian
yellow gold for Spanish
The new design replaces the gray in the swirl pattern with black.
For a look at the new covers, see the Spanish cover pictured on
the page featuring Paul R. Olson's The
Great Chiasmus.The binding of these new paperbacks is of
the type referred to as "notch binding." In the binding
process, notches are cut in the spine end of the signatures and
glue is forced into the spine. The result is a very durable binding
at a reasonable price. The paper used for the jackets is a good
heavy stock that will hold up well.
PSRL Moves to Paperback Publication
5 March 2003
After much deliberation, and in consultation with both our authors
and our publisher, the editors have decided to move to publication
in paperback-only format. This change will lower the price of the
books, making them more attractive to individual purchasers. Libraries,
struggling with the limited budgets imposed on them today, also
are usually open to paperback editions. The transition volume (vol.
26), The Great Chiasmus
by Paul R. Olson, will be available in both cloth and paperback
editions. In the past, the Press brought out a PSRL volume in paperback
when the initial cloth run had been exhausted. When that happened,
the Press turned to short-run, on-demand publication, in paperback.
With this decision, all books from volume 27 on will appear only
in paperback format. It is the hope that this move will be welcomed
by our readers and that it will make our books more accessible to
all
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