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H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) is commonly regarded as the leading author of supernatural fiction in the 20th century. He is distinctive among writers in having a tremendous popular following as well as a considerable and increasing academic reputation as a writer of substance and significance. This encyclopedia is an exhaustive guide to many aspects of Lovecraft's life and work, codifying the detailed research on Lovecraft conducted by many scholars over the past three decades. It includes hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries on Lovecraft and presents extensive bibliographical...

La literatura en lengua alemana abarca una amplia tradición cultural que vertebra buena parte de la historia de Europa. Desde sus orígenes hasta nuestros días, son numerosos los autores de ámbito germánico que han determinado el rumbo de la cultura occidental, hasta el punto de que resulta imposible imaginar cómo sería esta sin la influencia de Lutero, Kant, Goethe, Kafka o Günter Grass. La presente obra ofrece una visión general de la literatura producida en lengua alemana, hace hincapié en la contextualización de los géneros, los autores y las obras, y muestra cómo se articulan ...

Ribbans's analysis of such devices as the ambiguous role of the narrator, the use of free indirect style and direct dialogue, and the construction of distinctive ideolects leads to the heart of his study, the development of Galdos's characters.

This volume of essays in Spanish and English examines some of the key issues which surround the emergence of the Avant-Garde novel in Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century. The experimental novel of the 1920s is seen as the culmination of a process of change in approaches to the novel which began early in the century and was further promoted by Spain's key Avant-Gardist Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Several essays focus on the form of the novel and seek to shed new light on the role of José Ortega y Gasset as mentor to the new writers of the 1920s and on our understanding of his use...