Winter Rules

"La Pilarica" aragonesa y sus milagros constituyen sin lugar a dudas ¡una historia única en el mundoentero! En este libro cuento la historia de la venida de la Virgen Madre de Jesucristo, Dios y hombre verdadero, en carne mortal a Zaragoza sobre un Pilar transportado por Ángeles, el 2 - 1 del año 40 de la Era Cristiana. Para hacerlo, la Señora tenía dos fines. Uno era confortar al Apóstol Santiago en la evangelización que estaba llevando a cabo en la entonces llamada Hispania Tarraconense. El otro era dejar allí el Pilar, símbolo de la firmeza de la fe que reinaría en la...

Following studies by Goodman, Waley, and Darst, this new study of Garcilaso's work rejects as unfounded the traditional readings of Garcilaso's poetry based on the idea of sincerity and the poet's frustrated love for the Portuguese lady-in-waiting Isabel Freire. In place of the much-abused concept of sincerity, Heiple argues that the intellectual currents of the Renaissance are much more important for the analysis of Garcilaso's poetry. He analyzes in Garcilaso's poetry the uses of Renaissance concepts of mythology, poetic style, theories of love, primitivism, and iconological traditions....

Originally published in 1984. William Faulkner is the most studied American author of our time. This volume presents a collection of some of the best critical essays on William Faulkner’s ninth novel Absalom, Absalom!. Numerous approaches are represented; among them are theme studies, close readings, psychological studies, source studies, structural studies, and analyses of style and narrative technique.

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...