Lope de Vega en la invención de España

"The author uncovers and reconstructs the Taino Arawak system of communication. Areas covered include phonetics, phonology, morphosyntax, and lexicon, not to mention important considerations regarding onomastics and toponymy."

La Carta y breve compendio (1466), dirigida a Rodrigo Alfonso, IV conde de Benavente, y la Exhortación o información de buena y sana doctrina (1467), dirigida al rey niño Alfonso XII de Castilla (1465-1468), redactadas por el letrado vinculado a la casa del conde de Benavente, Pedro de Chinchilla, conservadas en la actualidad en la Biblioteca de Menéndez Pelayo de Santander (M-88), son dos buenas muestras de la literatura de espejos de príncipes en el otoño de la Edad Media. Escritos en el contexto de la guerra civil entre Enrique IV de Castilla (1454-1474) y su hermano Alfonso XII,...

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...

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...