Writing in the Margin

New readings (with translations) of the major texts of the Spanish Renaissance, or Golden Age, are offered in this, the first book of its kind to adopt a post-structuralist viewpoint. After discussing such authors as Gongora, Quevedo, Lope de Vega, Calderon, and Cervantes, Paul Julian Smith concludes that Spain itself is the place of marginality, the supplement to a Europe which cannot admit it but dare not exclude it.