Important critical readings of Góngora's Soledades have emerged since the classic studies by Robert Jammes, R. O. Jones and Andrée Collard of the late sixties. Influenced in part by newer theoretical approaches, such as semiotics, structuralism, deconstructionism and feminism, these include the work of Giovanni Sinicropi, Maurice Molho, John Beverley, Mary Gaylord, and Paul Julian Smith. Since that time, additional readings within this new wave have been developed by myself, Ted McVay, Pedro Ruiz Pérez, Betty Sasaki, Emilie Bergmann, Lorna Close and others, and significant contributions in the areas of interdisciplinary and source studies have been produced by Alfonso Callejo, Marsha Collins, and John McCaw. European production remains vibrant; especially noteworthy is the ongoing work of Nadine Ly and Enrica Cancilliere, among others, who have participated in a small boom of Góngora studies on the continent in honor of Robert Jammes’ retirement, and subsequently in symposia and publications coming out of the University of Córdoba. The journal Calíope produced an entire issue on Góngora, where articles on the Soledades by Carroll Johnson and Frederick de Armas reflected renewed interest in the relationship between the poet and his patrons.

New resources for textual work are now available. Alfonso Callejo and María Teresa Pajares published a concordance of the poem; the Chacón edition now exists in facsimile edition; and Antonio Carreira has provided new editions of Góngora's works and letters (with another one planned for Francisco Rico's series). Ana Martínez Arancón published a popular (if not definitive) collection of documents of the original critical debate over the Soledades; Pedro de Valencia's Carta as well as Jáuregui's Antídoto have been reedited; and these are complemented by a new critical study of the debate itself by Joaquín Roses Lozano (see Pérez López and Rico García). Spanish production is quite prolific in the wake of European integration; in this context I will suggest that attention be paid to bringing out scholarly editions of some of the unpublished commentaries – by Salcedo Coronel, Angulo y Pulgar and Díaz de Rivas – , as well as to reissuing Fernández de Cordoba, the Abad de Rute's “Examen del Antídoto” and Pedro de Valencia's Escritos sociales.