One important but under-considered aspect of the connection between television’s rise and the Cold War is the anxiety that the rapid growth in the cultural influence of television produced in its wake, most notably a concern about the older, traditional American culture ostensibly being left behind. Included within this “traditional” culture was…[Read more]

This selection of celestinesque and picaresque studies is the result of the joint work of new, experienced and established researchers from the American and European continents. It is a volume that proposes interdisciplinary and innovative perspectives that address both the defining works of the picaresque and celestinesque literatures and related…[Read more]

Analysis of the use of the Bible in “Celestina”.

The iconographic programmes of the illustrated editions of the translations of “Celestina” into Italian, German, French and Dutch printed in the first half of the sixteenth century are compared to those of the editions in Spanish that appeared before the Zaragoza: Pedro Bernuz y Bartolomé de Nájera, 1545 edition. They are considered within their c…[Read more]

Against the background of the often female-focused view of sexual abuse victims, this paper addresses the issue of male-identifying victims of sexual violence through the lens of the Bible. I tackle one particular form of sexual abuse: female-on-male sexual violence, of the “forced/made to penetrate” type through a re-reading of Genesis 19:…[Read more]