Fuente ovejuna, o, El castigo más debido y la venganza más justa

A study of the relationship betwen court festivity and theatre in 16c Spain. Dr Ferrer Valls studies the relationship between court festivity and theatre in the sixteenth century, placing special emphasis on staging. She argues that throughout the reign of Philip II court spectacle perpetuates the complicated staging of traditional performances, but with greater emphasis on their dramatic aspects and on the use of music and song. In the first two decades of the seventeenth century, and above all in specific plays by Lope de Vega, court spectacles come to reflect also the influence of Italian...

"Perlesvaus o El Alto Libro del Graal" es una de las obras mas originales y complejas de aquella singular literatura que, durante la Edad Media, elaboro el ultimo gran mito de Occidente: el Graal. Escrita a principios del sigloXIII en el norte de Francia por un autor que prefirio ocultarse en el anonimato, Perlesvaus, igual que el Parzival de Von Eschenbach (Siruela, 1999), nace de un estrecho dialogo con las obras que la precedieron para acentuar con fuerza su propia interpretacion del mito. Con un estilo propio que rechaza los moldes habituales de las novelas arturicas, esta obra sin par...

"Although there are other works on the linguistic interactions between the English and Spanish languages inside the Cuban community in the Greater Miami area, this book is an all encompassing study that lets us see where the language stands today, using recent trends that also let us project what will occur to the Spanish language in the near future.. At the same time, the book offers a clear picture, using current statistics, of what the Cuban community in Miami has accomplished in just four decades."

The author of the book analyzes five short stories of one of the most significant writers of modern Latin American literature with a mythocritical and symbological approach. From among the endeavors to define and systematize the ancient literary figures for the interpretation of existence (myth, symbol), the author opts for Gilbert Durand's comprehensive system originating in cultural anthropology as a theoretical foundation and starting point for her analytical strategy. The original and dynamic analyses of the short stories, which, at the same time, respect the aspects indicated by the...