Diccionario filológico de literatura española siglo XVI

This volume of collected essays explores the premise that Plutarch's work, notwithstanding its amazing thematic multifariousness, constantly pivots on certain ideological pillars which secure its unity and coherence. So, unlike other similar books which, more or less, concentrate on either the Lives or the Moralia or on some particular aspect(s) of Plutarch's oeuvre, the articles of the present volume observe Plutarch at work in both Lives and Moralia, thus bringing forward and illustrating the inner unity of his varied literary production. The subject-matter of the volume is uncommonly...

Después de la muerte del dictador Francisco Franco en 1975, la nueva España democrática le ofrece a la mujer española más libertades. Numerosos autores españoles tratan estos cambios en su obra literaria. En este trabajo examino cinco de ellas: Las edades de Lulú por Almudena Grandes, La pasión turca por Antonio Gala, Con Agatha en Estambul por Cristina Fernández Cubas, El vergel por Josefina Aldecoa y El asesino de los sueños por Concha Alós. Aunque estos autores en su novela reflejan tal emancipación también muestran a unas protagonistas atrapadas en su rol social de mujer. A...

Mexican writer and philosopher Leonardo da Jandra discusses the possibility of a return to the ideals of postmodernism, drawing from a variety of theorists from Marcel Mauss to Ludwig Boltzmann, and explores concepts such as utopia--based on his experiences living on the beach in Oaxaca--as well as language and permanence.

An anthology of Spanish women writers from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century. Water Lilies brings to light a rich & until now, largely invisible version of Spanish literary history. These hard-to-find works, most translated for the first time, are printed on facing pages in Spanish & English & are located within a critical, biographical & historical overview.