Mujer y literatura de viajes en el siglo XIX: Entre España y las Américas

La llegenda de la Dama Blava és el resultat d'una incongruència i d'una paradoxa. d'una incongruència perquè en la vida de la monja soriana Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda, confident de Felip IV i autora d'una de les obres teològiques més sorprenents del seu temps, no resultarien estranys els èxtasis místics a l'estil de santa Teresa, però sí que són sorprenents les més de 500 bilocacions que la van dur a predicar a Texas i a Nou Mèxic, que la van convertir en una missionera que mai no va eixir del convent. Al costat d'això, es produeix la paradoxa que una història que va ser...

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...

El profundo anhelo de las letras latinoamericanas de independizarse de las fuentes primeras hizo que nunca se reconciliaran con su pasado ibérico. En ese afán de independencia se propició un emparentamiento con diversas literaturas occidentales, pero ya desde la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII se entendía que la literatura nacional debía tener representatividad de la región de la cual surgía, por lo que se convirtió en el instrumento apropiado para fraguar la nacionalidad. Ángel Rama se adentra, por tal motivo, en el estudio de las culturas internas regionales para analizar la...

Cartografías cosmopolitas: León de Greiff y la tradición literaria analyzes the poetic works of this twentieth-century Colombian writer as a manifestation of cosmopolitanism, global cultural cartographies, and a self-fashioned poetic genealogy. Ramírez Rojas approaches de Greiff’s poems as cultural maps that reveal both a desire of connectivity with the world and a need for reorganizing the imaginary library of world literature. From a self-assumed position of eccentricity, de Greiff builds a network of global connections and disputes the binary division of cultural centers and...

The central component of this study is an index of the numerous motifs through which topoi of the text as symbol are articulated in the religious poetry, sermons, and sacramental plays of Golden Age Spain. Paired with the index is an anthology of the texts on which the book is based. In her introduction, Louise Salstad discusses the transmission and transformation of the topoi as they appear in the Old and New Testaments, classical literature, church writings, and medieval texts, and she considers the influence of the contemporary milieu on the shaping of these motifs. The book also includes...