Deseos, juegos, camuflaje

An elucidation in Spanish of the dramatic intentions and accomplishments of the two best imitators of the inspired craftsmanship of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, this is the first monograph to be published on Rojas Zorilla and Moreto for at least two decades. Following an introductory section, in which she discusses and compares the differing attitudes and methods of the two dramatists, the author concentrates on their respective achievements in the genres which they practiced with enthusiasm and ability. Among the comedies and serious secular plays selected for analysis are not only their...

Creo que me gastaré más de una noche leyendo el libro de Albeiro Montoya Guiral. Por su belleza formal, porque no es un poeta de temporada como tantos ansiosos del aplauso y la figuración, y porque coincide con el aserto del viejo Ezra Pound: “su tema es el hombre”. Juan Manuel Roca Bogotá, abril 20 de 2015

La presente obra propone mostrar qué se esconde tras el disfraz lingüístico del tabú, a través de un recorrido global e interdisciplinar de los procesos de interdicción lingüística (el eufemismo, el disfemismo y los procesos mixtos) en sus distintas vertientes (lingüística, pragmática y literaria) tomando como base el lenguaje literario inglés. De este modo, El eufemismo y el disfemismo intenta subsanar las limitaciones observadas en los trabajos precedentes relativos a la interdicción verbal, por lo general limitados al eufemismo como fenómeno léxico-semántico, y adopta una...

Benito Perez Galdos sought a new narrative structure which would revitalize the literary models prevalent in 19th-century Spain. He found such a structure in the creation of a dialogue between normally incompatible texts — between old and new, national and foreign, high culture and low. From the confrontation of these incongruous texts a narrative is born which, through the destruction of textual hierarchies, creates an ambiguous and often duplicitous texture of storytelling. Five paradigms, based upon five Novelas Contemporaneas, are used to exemplify the dialogical structure of the new...