Robert Lima

Professional Publications

Involved with writing since his undergraduate days, Robert Lima has published books, articles, translations, poetry, plays, reviews, and notes. His professional publications include The Readers Encyclopedia of American Literature (revising co-editor, 1962) and critical studies, among them the books The Theatre of García Lorca (1963), Borges the Labyrinth Maker (Edited and Translated, 1965), Ramón del Valle-Inclán (1972), Dos ensayos sobre teatro español de los veinte (co-authored, 1984), and Valle-Inclán. The Theatre of His Life (1988). He has also compiled the most comprehensive bibliography on its subject An Annotated Bibliography of Ramón del Valle-Inclán (1972) and has translated Valle-Inclán's The Lamp of Marvels (1986) and Savage Acts. Four Plays (1993). He edited and contributed an essay to Borges and the Esoteric (1993). The first of three volumes of his Ramón del Valle-Inclán, An Annotated Bibliography was published in London by Grant & Cutler in 1999.. Dark Prisms. Occultism in Hispanic Drama has been published in 1995, by the University Press of Kentucky. His biography of Valle-Inclán has been translated into Spanish and was published in 1995 as Valle-Inclán. El teatro de su vida by Editorial Nigra Imaxe.  He is the editor and a contributor to a special issue of Cauda Pavonis, Studies in Hermeticism, published in Fall 2000, in honor of the surrealist painter Leonora Carrington.

Later publications include Ramon Del Valle-Inclan. An Annotated Bibliography. Volume I: The Works of Valle-Inclán. Published in London by Grant & Cutler, Ltd in 1999;  The Dramatic World Of Valle-Inclan also in London by Boydell & Brewer, Ltd, in 2003; and Stages of Evil. Occultism In Western Theater and Drama published by The University Press of Kentucky in 2005.

Over 100 of his articles have appeared in the United States and abroad in Hispania, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Romanic Review, Modern Drama, The Theatre Annual, Studies in American Fiction, Boletín del Instituto Riva-Agüero, Modern Fiction Studies, Estreno, Drama Critique, Latin American Literary Review, Cielo Abierto, Romance Notes, Bestia, Journal of Dramatic Theory & Criticism, Letras Peninsulares, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Latin American Theatre Review, Américas, Saturday Review, The Washington Post, The Lima Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Bulletin, The Christian Science Monitor, Neophilologus, Atenea, Afro-Hispanic Review, Symposium, Hispanic Review, and Crítica Hispánica, among others, as well as in encyclopedias, festschriften, books, and conference proceedings (Hungary, France, Spain, Senegal, Morocco, Italy, Colombia, Perú, Ireland).

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