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A pesar de la repercusión que tuvo Francisco Villaespesa durante la ebullición modernista y años posteriores, así como de la relevancia que alcanzó en tierras latinoamericanas, no parece que haya servido para que el nombre de Villaespesa sea lo suficientemente recordado. Confiamos en que estudiar la recepción crítica de su obra literaria hasta el presente, nos lleve a conocer no sólo la aceptación que tuvo en su día sino de qué manera ha evolucionado la consideración de Villaespesa a lo largo del siglo XX, hasta nuestros días. Pese a que Francisco Villaespesa es un autor...

Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, Mar�a Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832?95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. An aristocratic Californiana, she championed the rights of Mexican Americans in novels, plays, and letters. Her 1885 novel called attention to the illegal appropriation of Mexican land by the United States government, and she critiqued the political mores of America after the Civil War in light of the Mexican-American war. Her keen assessment of corporate capitalism at the end of the nineteenth...

Hay veces que un jersey nuevo queda algo estrecho y sobre todo pica mucho. Pero ¿qué pasa si todos comienzan a probárselo? Sirve de gorro, de pantalones cortos y hasta de careta... Pero al propietario no parece hacerle tanta gracia.

Fray Luis de Len (1527-91) is known chiefly as the author of some of the finest poetry of the Spanish Golden Age, but he also wrote important prose works in both Latin and Spanish, and produced eloquent translations into Spanish of biblical and classical texts. He spent five years imprisoned in solitary confinement by the Spanish Inquisition, fighting to clear himself of a series of accusations against his views on the Bible. Acquitted on all counts, he returned to teach at the University of Salamanca. This book examines the controversies in which Fray Luis was caught up, and investigates the ...