Miradas Sobre Pasado Y Presente en El Cine Espanol (1990-2005)

A pathbreaking account of the influence and context of Andalusian life and art in the poetry and drama of Federico Garcia Lorca. Andalusia was the central feature and influence in the life and writings of the twentieth-century author, musician, and artist, Federico Garcia Lorca. Rooted in his native region, which both captivated and shaped him, Lorca maintained that "The better a writer learns how to interpret the landscape, the greater the artist he will be." Blessed with an acute historical sense of a region where the past is both present and enduring, Lorca proved himself sensitive and...

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.

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...

Este trabajo plantea un estudio sistemático de tres de las últimas obras de Fernando Aramburu vinculadas por uno de los temas que desde Cervantes preocupan al novelista: la creación literaria. En nuestro caso percibimos dicha inquietud en dos contextos relacionados con el oficio de escritor y diferenciados por su naturaleza factual o ficcional: contamos con manifestaciones escritas documentadas –los ensayos incluidos en Las letras entornadas (2015)–, a la vez que asistimos a la ficcionalización del hecho creador en el seno de la novela –Viaje con Clara por Alemania (2010) y Años...