Novela histórica colombiana e historiografía teleológica a finales del siglo XX

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...

Edición crítica y traducción de la versión latina, elaborada en Hispania a mediados del siglo XII, de las epístolas atribuidas al musulmán al-Hasimi y al cristiano al-Kindi, un importante documento de la polémica cristiana contra el islam redactado en árabe a mediados del siglo IX.

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...

Los estudios que desde hace varias décadas se vienen desarrollando sobre la obra luliana han dado copiosos frutos para entender una de las figuras más originales y significativas del mundo medieval. El libro del gentil y los tres sabios es un ejemplo representativo al plantear como medio de superación de conflictos entre civilizaciones la fuerza integradora del diálogo racional. Un intento loable y optimista, escrito entre 1274 y 1276, en el que tres sabios de las religiones monoteístas del momento: judía, cristiana y musulmana, pretenden mostrar a un gentil, ávido de paz y...