Garcilaso de la Vega and the Italian Renaissance

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...

At first, a little girl is thrilled when her parents bring home her baby brother, but soon jealousy takes over. Her mother helps her overcome her resentment in this story that many readers will be able to relate to.

El estridentismo fue un movimiento artístico surgido en México en 1921 y liderado por el poeta Manuel Maples Arce; en él confluyeron tanto literatos, como pintores y artistas plásticos, en un verdadero frente cultural multidisciplinario. Esta obra ofrece al lector una visión de conjunto al movimiento que abarca desde las corrientes que lo influyeron, hasta los modernos homenajes a su legado, deteniéndose en sus figuras más icónicas. De tal manera, este libro es un vasto repaso histórico a la vanguardia estridentista y el contexto cultural que lo vio surgir y evanecerse.

This is the first collection of criticism on Mario Benedetti's work published in Spanish covering his literary works, the major themes of his writing, cinematic interpretations of his works, and his political commitments.