"[An] excellent deconstructionist critical study....What this volume says of the picarespue novel, lyric poetry, the comedia, and Cervantes...will be of interest to deconstructionists....Others will find the volume challenging reading as well as one that will develop their critical vocabulary." --Choice

"Smith's valuable text, extremely dense with critical theory and new application of it, and discussion of previously published theory on the works and authors, may well accomplish the object of the author as stated in the conclusion."--Romance Quarterly

"An exceptionally ambitious work, and one cannot help but admire Smith's critical gifts and the breadth of his knowledge. This is a stellar performance....A major achievement and a testament to changing times in Hispanic critical circles."--The Comparatist

"Better than anyone else working in Spanish literature of the Golden Age, Dr. Smith has caught the spirit of the Derrid approach to produce exciting new readings of the Spanish classics; no one in our field can afford to ignore this brilliant book."--Elias L. Rivers, SUNY at Stony Brook

"A brilliant, somewhat difficult but ultimately accessible work."--Renaissance Quarterly