Primary Contributions (1)
Miguel de Cervantes was a Spanish novelist, playwright, and poet, the creator of Don Quixote (1605, 1615) and the most important and celebrated figure in Spanish literature. His novel Don Quixote has been translated, in full or in part, into more than 60 languages. Editions continue regularly to be…
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Publications (3)
Women's Literacy in Early Modern Spain and the New World (2011)
By Anne J. Cruz, Rosilie Hernández
Containing essays from leading and recent scholars in Peninsular and colonial studies, this volume offers research on women's acquisition and practice of literacy, on conventual literacy, and on the cultural representations of women's literacy.
Discourses of Poverty Social Reform and the Picaresque Novel in Early Modern Spain (January 1999)
By Anne J. Cruz
In this ground-breaking study, Anne Cruz examines the treatment of poverty, prostitution, war, and other social concerns in the cultural and literary discourses of early modern Spain. This book investigates the polemics on poor relief through religious charity and secularized reform articulated not only in the Spanish picaresque canon - Lazarillo de Tormes, Guzm¯n de Alfarache, El busc3/4n - but also in female picaresque narratives and soldiers' tales. Emphasizing Bakhtin's notion that discursive...
Cervantes and His Postmodern Constituencies (1999)
By Anne J. Cruz (ured.), Carroll B. Johnson
The essays in this collection represent the first effort in Hispanism to address the conflicted status of Cervantes studies by interrogating the possibility of continued critical dialogue in the context of postmodern theories that threaten to divide into oppositional discourses. Comprising broad historical overviews as well as close readings of texts, and wielding the rhetoric of scientific detachment and of impassioned political commitments, the essays at once exemplify and critique multiple critical...
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