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Following studies by Goodman, Waley, and Darst, this new study of Garcilaso's work rejects as unfounded the traditional readings of Garcilaso's poetry based on the idea of sincerity and the poet's frustrated love for the Portuguese lady-in-waiting Isabel Freire. In place of the much-abused concept of sincerity, Heiple argues that the intellectual currents of the Renaissance are much more important for the analysis of Garcilaso's poetry. He analyzes in Garcilaso's poetry the uses of Renaissance concepts of mythology, poetic style, theories of love, primitivism, and iconological traditions....

A study of letter-writing in Renaissance Spain. The subject of this book is the art of letter-writing in the Renaissance period, which, particularly in the case of Spain, has been unjustly neglected. The first part examines two major sixteenth-century treatises on letter-writing, Erasmus's Opus de conscribendis epistolis (1522) and Juan Luis Vives's De conscribendis epistolis(1536), concluding that the two were composed independently, rather than one being derived from the other. The author goes on to look at two important collections of letters, Fray Antonio de Guevara's Epístolas...

Maria de Zayas utilizes the theme of the supernatural in her novels to portray an upsidedown world where men are the ones who ally themselves to the devil to seduce women and dishonor them. This work will be of special interest to those interested in the study of women literature starting with the Middle Ages to our modern times.

Descubrir a Susan Glaspell, una de las voces más carismáticas y originales de principios del siglo XX, es una apasionante sorpresa. Cofundadora de los Provincetown Players, se dejó arrastrar por los sueños e ideales de su marido, para crear un teatro vanguardista genuinamente norteamericano. Las consagradas dotes de esta dramaturga enmarcan en el espacio temporal de la conducta humana las cuatro breves obras recogidas en este volumen escritas para los Provincetown Players. Deseos suprimidos, Nimiedades, Cierra el libro y El pueblo son obras protagonizadas por variopintos personajes,...