... features of costumbrismo are difficult to characterize owing to the wide variety of both its Spanish as well as its generally European forms . An investigation , however , of its major manifestations - those typical of Spanish literature ...
Postmodernism and Cultural Identities: Conflicts and Coexistence
... Nicolás Gómez Dávila with his trenchant sarcasm and laserlike di- agnostics of the contemporary world. VI What I loved in world literature (and relied on in constructing my defen- sive enclosure) and what I actually had an opportunity ...
The Hospitable Canon: Essays on Literary Play, Scholarly Choice, and Popular Pressures
