The six essays collected in this volume are a selection from a number of
papers which were given at a one-day colloquium on 'Art, Literature and
the Spanish Civil War' which was held in Westfield College on 18 July
1986, preciselyfifty years to the day after Franco's military coup in
the Canary Islands, which was destined to have such a decisive effect on
the course of Spanish history. Though this date subsequently became a
Francoist celebration - the so-called 'Dia del Alzamiento' (Day of the
Uprising) - the papers collected here do not demonstrate a Francoist
bias. The overall approach is intertextual and interdisciplinary,
thereby stressing the international nature of the artistic response to
the war. For the benefit of the English reader, all foreign quotations
are followed by an English translation.