Compendio general e innecesario de cosas que nunca pensó que le fueran a importar

By insisting that women should be equal partners, Pardo Bazán problematically adopted the patriarchal binarism that assigns women to Nature and men to Culture, but she also subverted it by denying its supplemental relationship. Her astute choice and manipulation of masculine cultural models (Realism, not Romanticism; prose, not poetry; Castilian language, not Galician) ultimately won her--despite fierce opposition--inclusion in the Spanish national canon. Furthermore, the study of her thorny relations with emerging Galician nationalism shows that her exclusion from "Galician literature" was...

El prestigioso filólogo Francisco López Estrada se ocupa de la obra de Cristobal de Monroy y Silva, hidalgo y escritor alcalareño del siglo XVII, que cultivó tanto la poesía como la prosa y el teatro. El autor aborda el estudio global del escritor, llevando a la par a cabo un detenido análisis de su particular versión de Fuente Ovejuna.

El coronel Lucio Victorio Mansilla residía en la Villa de la Concepción del Río Cuarto (provincia de Córdoba) cuando entre 30 de marzo y el 17 de abril de 1870 realizó, con un pequeño grupo de hombres, el viaje hacia el sur con el que pretendía confirmar en las propias tolderías de los ranqueles el pacto que entre estos y el gobierno argentino él mismo había impulsado, para poner fin a las violentas incursiones de los indios que asolaban los territorios próximos a la frontera. El diario La Tribuna de Buenos Aires publicó el relato de aquella aventura, en entregas que simulaban ser ...

This volume of essays in Spanish and English examines some of the key issues which surround the emergence of the Avant-Garde novel in Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century. The experimental novel of the 1920s is seen as the culmination of a process of change in approaches to the novel which began early in the century and was further promoted by Spain's key Avant-Gardist Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Several essays focus on the form of the novel and seek to shed new light on the role of José Ortega y Gasset as mentor to the new writers of the 1920s and on our understanding of his use...