A revision of the author's Ph.D. thesis for the U. of Toronto. It examines political dimensions of Don Quixote, which have mostly been ignored by Anglophone cri

The San Fernando Valley, hidden just on the other side of the Hollywood sign, is the pornography capital of the world. This valley of adult commerce is towered

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Eros considers a promise left unfulfilled in Sigmund Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle. Rosaura Martínez Ruiz argues that when the pleasure principle com