La vuelta al logos

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....

El libro del destino es una novela corta de Emmi Lewald (1866-1946), publicada bajo el seudónimo Emil Roland, que nunca ha vuelto a ser reeditada después de 1904. La autora, olvidada como tantas otras, desempeñó un papel activo en el movimiento burgués que abogaba por la emancipación de la mujer. Su participación en diversas organizaciones del Berlín de la época, así como su actividad literaria, son muestra de un decidido compromiso con los cambios que los nuevos tiempos traían consigo. Ulrike Gade, la protagonista de la obra, encarna los conflictos internos en los que se veían...

Edited, translated, and introduced by Luis A. Ramos-Garcia Based on the princeps edition (1801) and preceded by a lengthy introductory study, this critical annonated edition documents key aspects of Spain's controversial Age of Reason, particularly the uncertain shifts in ideas, and the peculiarities of Montengon's idiosyncratic philosophical system.

This book analyzes the theoretical aspects of specific humoristic techniques in Gabriel Garcia Marquez. These techniques employ ranges from the use of explicit jokes, hyperbole or textual and cultural carnival, and literary resources such as irony, parody and ambiguity.