Hispanic Literatures and the Question of a Liberal Education
Ed. Luis Martín-Estudillo and Nicholas Spadaccini
Introduction: The Centrality of Literature in the Quest for a Liberal Education
Luis Martín-Estudillo and Nicholas Spadaccini
- Literature, Film, and the Place of Academic Culture in the Digital Age
Gonzalo Navajas - The Literary Classics in Today's Classroom: Don Quixote and Road Movies
David R. Castillo - On Almodóvar's World: The Endless Film
Enric Bou - The Aesthetics of Rape, and the Rape of Aesthetics
Bradley J. Nelson - Martín Fierro: The Image of Colloquiality
David William Foster - "Living and Thinking with Those Dislocations": A Case for Latin American Existentialist Fiction
Stephanie Merrim - The Intellectual Legacy of Bartolomé de Las Casas
Margarita Zamora - Nuestra América / Our America at the Crossroads: Splendors of Prophecy, Misery of History, and Other Mishaps of the Patriotic Utopia (Notes on the Bicentennial Recourse of the Method and on Martí's Blueprint for Macondo)
Emil Volek - Retelling the Future: Don Juan Manuel's "Exenplo XI" and the Power of Fiction
Michelle M. Hamilton - What Lorca Knew: Teaching Receptivity
Jonathan Mayhew - Reading from the Periphery: Ricardo Piglia and the Liberal Arts
Roy Ketchum - Carlos Fuentes's Mirrors of Time: Art and Literature in the Twenty-First Century
Adriana Gordillo - Cultural Buddies: Text and Context, in Context
Edward H. Friedman
Afterword: The Trap of Relevance
William Egginton