Pedro Montengón's Frioleras eruditas y curiosas para la pública instrucción

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...

Con ocasión de la publicación de la obra El caso Jauss de Ottmar Ette, este libro reflexiona sobre el vínculo entre las operaciones retóricas y académicas del teórico literario Hans Robert Jauss con su militancia nacionalsocialista.

Colección de ensayos sobre el sujeto exótico, ese que nos provoca atracción y al mismo tiempo rechazo. Representa el lugar a colonizar, y la alteridad así resulta un estímulo para despertar la sed de aventura, lo que ha sido abordado en ficciones como la narrativa, el teatro y el cine de autores como Carpentier, Vargas Llosa, Anzaldúa, Alexei, Moore, Coetzee, y Defoe, entre otros. Con base en reflexiones de Barthes, Ricoeur, Todorov, Bajtín, Said y Derrida, los textos exploran si lo salvaje, aquello que denominamos primitivo, define la ignorancia oculta en los vocabularios culturales.

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...