Lo real y lo imaginario. Ensayos literarios

Los artículos reunidos en este volumen abarcan no sólo preguntas sobre la formación de una comunidad literaria a través de prácticas editoriales, de tradiciones y de definiciones de literatura, sino que también reflexionan sobre las estrategias para construir un repertorio temático.

Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...

En el archipiélago de Terramar hay dragones, magos y espectros, talismanes y poderes. En un mundo gobernado por la magia y, ante todo, por las palabras, pues cada cosa posee su nombre verdadero, el designado durante la Creación, que otorga a los hechiceros el dominio sobre los elementos y los animales. Sus gentes sencillas y tranquilas, tienen como único objetivo conseguir paz y sabiduría. Este volumen recoge las dos primeras novelas de la saga. Sus respectivos protagonistas, el joven mago Ged y la sacerdotisa Tenar, experimentarán una serie de aventuras que los transformarán...

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...