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Un anlisis de la obra potica de Lope de Vega revela cmo amold su propio personaje 'Lope' para adecuarse, generalmente con xito, a los cambios de su entorno.

Antonio Perez, the brilliant but erratic secretary to Philip II of Spain, became in the years of his exile a political agent in the service of the Earl of Essex, arriving at the Court of Queen Elizabeth in 1593. On behalf of Essex, who valued him as a friend, a partner and a humanist scholar, he cast an intelligence network over Italy; and he made a striking, though dangerous, contribution to the Essex cult.

By insisting that women should be equal partners, Pardo Bazán problematically adopted the patriarchal binarism that assigns women to Nature and men to Culture, but she also subverted it by denying its supplemental relationship. Her astute choice and manipulation of masculine cultural models (Realism, not Romanticism; prose, not poetry; Castilian language, not Galician) ultimately won her--despite fierce opposition--inclusion in the Spanish national canon. Furthermore, the study of her thorny relations with emerging Galician nationalism shows that her exclusion from "Galician literature" was...

Un libro de artículos de una voz siempre indispensable y brillante. «Quien no lea a Marías está condenado.» The Nation Este volumen reúne los noventa y cinco artículos publicados por Javier Marías en el suplemento dominical El País Semanal entre el 10 de febrero de 2013 y el 1 de febrero de 2015. En opinión del autor, «nos encontramos en una situación de emergencia que obliga a mancharse con la suciedad que esparcen nuestros gobernantes de todo signo. Cuando los abusos no son la excepción, sino la regla; cuando no se da abasto a contrarrestar -qué digo: a señalar- los desmanes...