Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695) is a legend in her native Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America. She is esteemed for the artistic and intellectual quality of her wide-ranging poetry, plays, and prose writings. She is renowned for her defense of the right of women to study, to publish their scholarship, and to teach, all controversial claims…

Discusses the works of contemporary authors Jose Camon Aznar, Ramon Hernandez, Carlos Arean, Pureza Canelo Gutierrez, Vicente Solo, and Jaime Ferran. (DS)

Suggests that Maranon has suppressed various prologues he wrote during his career for political and personal reasons; the prologues were for books published by contemporary Spanish authors. (DS)

Discusses the works of contemporary writers Martin de Riquer, Luis Maria Anson, Gabriel Celaya, Gaspar Gomez de la Serna, Carmen Mieza, and Jose Luis Acquaroni. (DS)

Describes works of contemporary authors Pedro Lain Entralgo, Claudio de la Torre, Ricardo de la Cierva, Rosa Chacel, Jose Luis Cano, and Vicente Gaos. (DS)

Works of Emilio Garcia Gomez, Dario Fernandez Florez, Armando Lopez Salinas, Jaime de Arminan, Luis Lopez Anglada, and Carmen Bravo Villasante are analyzed in this continuing series on Spanish authors. (DS)

Discusses the work of contemporary writers Manuel Ferrard, Medardo Fraile, Camilo Jose Cela, Julio Mathias, Jose Maria Cabodevilla, and Federico Carlos Sainz de Robles. (DS)

Reports on the life and works of contemporary Spanish writers Samuel Gili Gaya, Emilio Romero, Begona Garcia Diego, Ramiro Pinilla, Felix Grande, and Juan Antonio Cabezas. (DS)

Reports on life and works of contemporary Spanish writers Julian Marias, Carmen Nonell, Luis Martin Santos, Luis Felipe Vivanco, Mario Lacruz, and Jose Maria Rodriguez Mendez. (DS)

Continuing series on contemporary authors in Spain. Authors treated are Narciso Alonso Cortes, Manuel Arce, Carmen Llorca, Angel Maria de Lera, Louis Jimenez, Martos and Alfonso Sastre. (DS)

Continuing series on contemporary Spanish authors. Covers the writings of Fernando Lazaro Carreter, Maria Elvira Lacaci, Manuel Calvo Hernando, Rodrigo Rubio, Victor Alperi, and Francisco Garfias. (DS)

Critical evaluation and biographical comments on contemporary Spanish authors Arcadio de Larrea Palacin, Leopoldo de Luis, Andres Bosch, Condesa de Campo Alange, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, and Juan Rof Carballo. (DS)

Discusses the works of six contemporary Spanish authors. (DS)