¡No me piques araña!

Este ensayo profundiza en facetas hasta ahora inéditas de Luis Cernuda, contribuyendo a compensar decisivamente el relativo olvido en que se ha tenido a este autor.

This edited volume explores the ways in which Miguel de Cervantes adopted humanist positions, whether he submitted these to critical examination or made them the target of his satires. It tries to determine how familiar Cervantes was with the contemporary developments of humanism in different European countries, and if references to particular humanist thinkers can be identified in his work. The contributions gathered in this volume, all from acknowledged Cervantes experts, tackle among others the following questions: How does Cervantes analyse the humanist connexion between science and...

Este estudio, ampliamente documentado, somete la obra del poeta José María Heredia (1803-1839) a una rigurosa relectura, tomando como punto de partida la muy comentada "melancolicidad" de este autor cubano.

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...