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  • Vol. 35: En busca de una caracterización de la ironía verbal en español
  • Vol. 34: Regiones inquietantes: literatura de horror en Latinoamérica
  • Vol. 33: Humanidades Médicas: debates desde la literatura, el cine y las artes visuales
  • Vol. 32: Anti-Disinformation Pedagogy: Tackling the Power of Manipulative Media
  • Vol. 31: The Graphic Past: Comic and History in 21st-Century Spain
  • Vol 30: Generación Hijes: memoria, posdictadura y posconflicto en América Latina
  • Vol. 29: Crisis Unleashed: Crime, Turmoil, and Protest in Hispanic Literature and Visual Culture
  • Vol. 28: Contemporary Brazilian Cities, Culture, and Resistance
  • Vol. 27: Huellas de lo trágico en la cultura española moderna
  • Vol. 26: Migraciones, derechos humanos y acciones locales
  • Vol. 25: Confined Women: The Walls of Female Space in Early Modern Spain
  • Vol.24: Environmental Cultural Studies Through Time: The Luso-Hispanic World
  • Vol.23: Writing in the End Times: Apocalyptic Imagination in the Hispanic World
  • Vol.22: Vestigios del pasado: Los sitios de la memoria y sus representaciones políticas y artísticas
  • Vol.21: Ensayo / Error. Arte y escritura experimentales en España (1960-1980)
  • Vol.20: Freakish Encounters
  • Vol.19: Perpetradores y memoria democrática en España
  • Vol.18: Gender and the Politics of Literature
  • Vol.17: Conflicto armado y políticas de la memoria en el Perú
  • Vol.16: Amazonian Literatures
  • Vol.15: Writing Monsters
  • Vol.14: Layers of Memory and the Discourse of Human Rights
  • Vol.13: Whose Voice is This? Iberian and Latin American Antigones
  • Vol.12: Troubled Waters
  • Vol.11: Memory and Its Discontents
  • Vol.10: Armed Resistance
  • Vol.9: Hybrid Storyspaces
  • Vol.8: Hispanic Literatures and the Question of a Liberal Education
  • Vol.7: Death and Afterlife in the Early Modern Hispanic World
  • Vol.6: Huidobro's Futurity
  • Vol.5: Human Rights in Latin American and Iberian Cultures
  • Vol.4: Human Rights and Latin American Cultural Studies
  • Vol.3: Latin American Urban Cultural Production
  • Vol.2: Estudios Hispánicos
  • Vol.1: Debating Hispanic Studies

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

  1. Literature, Film, and the Place of Academic Culture in the Digital Age
    Gonzalo Navajas
  2. The Literary Classics in Today's Classroom: Don Quixote and Road Movies
    David R. Castillo
  3. On Almodóvar's World: The Endless Film
    Enric Bou
  4. The Aesthetics of Rape, and the Rape of Aesthetics
    Bradley J. Nelson
  5. Martín Fierro: The Image of Colloquiality
    David William Foster
  6. "Living and Thinking with Those Dislocations": A Case for Latin American Existentialist Fiction
    Stephanie Merrim
  7. The Intellectual Legacy of Bartolomé de Las Casas
    Margarita Zamora
  8. 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
  9. Retelling the Future: Don Juan Manuel's "Exenplo XI" and the Power of Fiction
    Michelle M. Hamilton
  10. What Lorca Knew: Teaching Receptivity
    Jonathan Mayhew
  11. Reading from the Periphery: Ricardo Piglia and the Liberal Arts
    Roy Ketchum
  12. Carlos Fuentes's Mirrors of Time: Art and Literature in the Twenty-First Century
    Adriana Gordillo
  13. Cultural Buddies: Text and Context, in Context
    Edward H. Friedman

Afterword: The Trap of Relevance
William Egginton

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