El Rómulo

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....

"Este libro contiene 44 páginas con divertidas escenas y textos sencillos sobre los 22 períodos históricos que más interesan a los primeros lectore"--Back cover.

Si la literatura es una de las herramientas que la sociedad utiliza para construir su identidad, un espejo en el que mirarse y reconocerse, esta propuesta nace de un intento de saber cuál sería la respuesta de la literatura a la pregunta de quiénes somos. El crítico y editor Constantino Bértolo despliega en esta obra su extensa experiencia, su profundo conocimiento de las letras españolas y una capacidad de análisis acerada para ofrecer un recorrido en clave histórico-crítica de la literatura producida durante el siglo xx, ahora que ya ha pasado suficiente tiempo como para volver la...

This trilingual volume examines the extent to which myths are affected by the crises of the 20th and 21st centuries. It brings together four theoretical studies which analyse both the crisis of structure – implying the distortion or disappearance of myth – and the crisis of concepts and terminology that currently threaten the study of mythology. The largest section of the volume focuses on the crises that have affected ancient, medieval and modern literary myths from a global perspective, taking into account psychology, ethics, politics and contemporary meta-literature. The final section...