Lifetime's Reading: Hispanic Essays for Patrick Gallagher

• Yo amaba aquellos ojos tan azules, Antonio Gonzalez-Guerrero; Clongowes Wood College, M. Angeles Conde-Parrilla; on the stage, on the page - some developments in Spanish drama 1681-1833, Don W. Cruickshank; "discantando la pasion" - Garcia Sanchez de Badajoz and the art of renaissance song, Martin G. Cunningham; el parrafo final del "Lazarillo" y unas interpolactiones que no lo son, Manuel Ferrer-Chivite; Garcilaso de la Vega - exile and nostalgia, Christopher Fitzpatrick; "La gaznapira", novela total, Medardo Fraile; past and present in Cela's "Nuevo viaje a la Alcarria" David Henn; aprender a aprender a traves de la lectura en Espanol como lengua extranjera, Charo Hernandez; from palimpsest to print, the shaping of a sonnet (Machado's "Esta luz de Sevilla"), Philip G. Johnston; Juan Goytisolo, Miguel de Unamuno and Spanish literary history, Alison Kennedy; the subversive presence of Ausias March, Dominic Keown; spatial and deictic reference in three Borges stories, Bill Richardson; Ramon Gomez de la Serna's "El Incongruente" and Rafael Sanchez Ferlioso's "Industrias y andanzas de Alfanhui" - an example of literary influence?, Jeremy S. Squires; the kingdom of Navarre in early peninsular historiography, Aengus Ward; co-operative contests - dialogue mode in the late novels and plays of Ramon del Valle-Inclan, Robin Warner; list of publications of Patrick Gallagher.

"the excellence of their articles speaks eloquently of Gallagher's powers of selection ... this is much more than just an assemblage of occasional pieces. Each of the articles is excellent in its own way, and most genuinely advance the subject with which they are concerned." Author Terry, University if Essex Bulletin of Hispanic Studies LXXXVI, 1999 "a fine tribute to Pat Gallagher, a polyglot and poet, who was Professor of Spanish for over thirty years at University College Dublin." Times Literary Supplement, July 1999 "the volume makes a significant and wide-ranging contribution to various aspects of Hispanic Studies." Donaire, Dec 1999 "What is most striking about this collection is the diversity of genre, era and approach represented within its pages ... experiencing the unexpected is part of the charm of this collection, which truly does represent 'a lifetime's reading'." Modern Language Review 96 (1) 2001