Andalucía y la bohemia literaria

The book, unique in its kind, includes a total of 28 writers representative of 13 different Latin American countries, from those who are part of the canon such as Isabel Allende, Gioconda Belli, Liliana Heker, Nancy Morejon, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, Alfonsina Storni, Gabriela Mistral, and Julia de Burgos to emergent voices, such as Cecilia Bustamante, Rosina Valcarcel, and Gladys Ilarregui. This anthology will be the perfect text to give an overview of contemporary poetry and short story by leading Latin American women writers. The range of countries...

El tejedor de Segovia es la fascinante aportación de Juan Ruiz de Alarcón y Mendoza al subgénero "comedia de bandoleros". En efecto, su argumento reporta enorme interés y su trama está magníficamente construida: con muchas acciones, más incorporación de suspense y provocación a la admiratio, entre otros aspectos. Los personajes se trazan con perfiles complejos, la versificación cumple funciones varias, y se asegura la atrayente y significativa espectacularidad para la puesta en escena. No extraña, pues, el éxito que obtiene en las tablas a lo largo de los siglos XVII y XVIII; si...

A lucid and intelligent analysis of the alternative theatre in the United Kingdom, in the last decades. It explores the connections between the socio-cultural panorama and the theatrical event, with an inter-discipline perspective that combines artistic-literary comments with cultural history. It is particularly important for researchers about theatre because it presents vital and dynamic expositions. .

Annotation Between 1605 and 1621, Quevedo wrote a sequence of five "Dreams" or "Visions" "(Suenos y discursos), in each of which he hilariously envisions Spanish society as populated by people rightfully condemned to Hell. These astonishingly witty and irreverent satires of contemporary Spanish culture, morality, prejudice and religious fanaticism, were composed in a style as allusive, elliptical and equivocal as to successfully entertain both those who barely understood their full range and import, and others who celebrated the poet's rebellious insinuations. Censorship prohibited the...