La novela histórica latinoamericana entre dos siglos

El autor, a partir de su inmersión en la Andalucía medieval, especialmente en la Sevilla y Córdoba de los siglos X-XIII, ha investigado las relaciones que podrían existir entre nuestros grandes poetas de los Siglos de Oro y la lírica arabigoandaluza. Relaciones sorprendentes en poetas como Góngora o Soto de Rojas; pero especialmente llamativas en el caso del sevillano Fernando de Herrera, tan unido tradicionalmente a la poesía de los trovadores y de poetas como Ausías March.

Text and illustrations explain the structure of plants, how they grow and reproduce, and their importance in nature.

Establishing the notion of reasonable foolishness and foolish reason as a generic principle of the old French farce, Boucquey's study examines the interdependencies among four key mimetic phenomena: the demented universe of the Feast of Fools festival, the genre of the farce, Bruegel's representation of the world, and the euphoric comedies of triumphant madness created by Moliere. This reinterpretation of French farce according to the principle of a topsy-turvy world reveals the link of madness that unites the four modes of production studied, from textual linearity, through representational...

This book is virtually the only source of knowledge concerning its author's early life. He was born in Montemor-o-Velho some ten or twelve years before the death of King Manuel in December 1521. About the time of the latter event he to Lisbon and intered 'the service or relatives.'