This volume offers a guide to the future of agenda-setting for those already reasonably well-versed in the research of the last 25 years. The theoretical essays build on research in Shaw and McComb's Public Opinion Quarterly (1972), concerning the effects of various media and political agendas.

With such figures as Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel Angel Asturias and Gabriel Garcia Marquez (both the latter Nobel Prizewinners) Spanish American fiction is now unquestionably an integral part of the mainstream of Western literature. This book draws on the most recent research in describing the origins and development of narrative in Spanish America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tracing the pattern from Romanticism and Realism, through Modernismo, Naturalism and Regionalism to the Boom and beyond. It shows how, while seldom moving completely away from satire, social criticism...