ACCESO A LA LITERATURA ESPAÑOLA CONTEMPORÁNEA. PANORAMA Y COMENTARIO

Este libro estudia las comedias hagiograficas, o comedias de santos, las cuales fueron populares durante el Siglo de Oro espanol. Utiliza diversas fuentes tales como historia de la iglesia, filosofia, hagiografia, teoria dramatica y estudios existentes sobre los dramaturgos y las comedias del Siglo de Oro. El libro analiza las comedias hagiograficas como un subgenero con caracteristicas y convenciones propias; crea una tipologia de santos: y clasifica las obras de acuerdo con esta tipologia. Es, tambien, el primer estudio comparativo de las comedias de santos de Lope, Tirso y Calderon."

This critical biography chronicles both the actual travels and the philosophical meanderings of Talbot Mundy, one of the pioneers of the fantasy and adventure genre. Less celebrated than his contemporaries Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad, Mundy was no less gifted when it came to the literary portrayal of faraway lands. He was one of the first Western writers to show an appreciation of Eastern culture, and his writing became an outlet for his radical ideas on religion and philosophy. At the age of sixteen, Mundy left his native England to begin his life of adventure—a journey that took him ...

"First-person narrative does not always fall under the genre of autobiography. In the centuries before the genre was defined, authors often patterned their personal narratives after prestigious discourses, such as hagiography, historiography, and the literary miscellany.Caballero noble desbaratado: Autobiografía e invención en el siglo XVI: "Noble Knight Disrupted: Autobiography and Invention in the Sixteenth Century analyzes several first-person narratives from Spain and the conditions of their writing and reception. It focuses on the sixteenth-century Libro de la vida y costumbres (Book...

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. .