Pervivencia del mundo clásico en la literatura

This volume is a tribute to Miguel Mendez, one of the most important figures of Chicano letters. Miguel Mendez in Aztlan includes critical essays on Mendez's fiction, works by Miguel Mendez (including a never-before-published short story), personal photographs, an interview, and an extensive bibliography.

Although the three authors studied, Ana Maria Matute, Carmen Martin Gaite, and Esther Tusquets, are sophisticated intellectuals, they have chosen fairy tales and texts from other marginalized genres originally for female consumption (such as the novela rosa and the Hollywood women's picture) as the major intertexts in their novels for adults as well as in their fictions for children. Against the backdrop feminist theory and recent critical studies of fairy tales and children's literature, Solino studies the works of these authors as "gendered texts." Solino's book opens with a chapter that...

Desde su aparición en la «Bibliothèque des Curieux» en 1913, La Roma de los Borgia ha sido calificada indistintamente como blasfema, pornográfica, antirreligiosa, etc... Sin embargo, la obra de Apollinaire intenta reflejar a modo de fresco la atmósfera del crimen, crueldad y terror de una época que llegó al máximo grado de depravación con la familia Borgia, cuyos miembros más destacados fueron el papa libertino Alejandro, entregado a los placeres más abyectos en el Vaticano, el asesino y verdugo César Borgia, y la hermosa envenenadora Lucrecia. Fue Lucrecia quien ayudó a la casa ...

This book is written in Spanish. This book is a study of the intellectual and cultural atmosphere surrounding the Spanish author don Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645) during his stay at the Courts of Palermo and Naples (1613-1619) in the service of the Viceroy Duke of Osuna. Attention is paid particularly to his early knowledge of the works of the poet Marino, his role as protector of the Arts, and as intercessor on behalf of the philosopher Campanella. The second part of the book offers a detailed analysis of the author's writings during his Italian and post-Italian years as a result of his...