Exposes the cultural roots of Spanish fascism.

Using postmodern theory, The Practice of Quixotism explores eighteenth-century women's texts that use quixote narratives, which typically demand that individuals purge their minds of internalized fictions to insist instead that the reality we encounter is inevitably mediated by the texts we have read.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1841.

An anti-romance satirizing the maudlin fiction of the latter part of the 18th century.

Examines the degree to which playwright Antonio Buero Vallejo has been influenced by Cervantes, in particular by the Don Quixote myth. Buero attaches great relevance to the power of madness and dreams, and, like Cervantes, makes use of the fusion of fantasy and reality in his work.