Introduction: John Kronik, self-conscious art, and the mainstream of (Hispanic) criticism / Andrew P. Debicki, Susan L. Fischer -- Rewriting Unamuno rewriting Galdós / H.L. Boudreau -- Playing with Unamunian paper birds / Nancy Newton -- "Self"-consciousness in Rosa Chacel and María Zambrano / Roberta Johnson -- Self-reflexive fiction and the discourses of gender in Carmen de Burgos / Maryellen Bieder -- Self-conscious narration and Christian discourse in Goytisolo and Fuentes / Robert C. Spires -- Page-gazing through subversive staging: Calderón and "L'Illusion cinématographique" / Susan L. Fischer -- "Yo el soneto": Cervantes's poetics of The cenotaph / Mary Malcolm Gaylord -- From the transcendental to the supernatural: Kant and the doctors / Marshall Brown -- Murderous games: the self-conscious art of the comedy thriller / Marvin Carlson