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Miguel de Unamuno (d. 1936), one of the most influential of modern Spanish writers and thinkers, has been described as Spain’s richest mind of the ...

Professor Valdes presents a theory of literary criticism based on phenomenological philosophy – primarily the work of Husserl, Ingarden, Merleau-Po...

In his earlier books, Shadows in the Cave (1982) and Phenomenological Hermeneutics and the Study of Literature (1987), Mario Valdés laid the founda...

Literary criticism today is dominated by the debate about whether texts have a fixed identity with established meaning or a variable identity with ...

In literary texts writers express their views on a great variety of issues, some of which they take seriously, others of which they treat with levi...