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

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"Jesus Torrecilla explores the question of how societies considered to be marginal perceive their relationship with those that are hegemonic. Focusing on the works of Mariano Jose de Larra, Benito Perez Galdos, and Miguel de Unamuno, he argues that the inner tension created between the foreign models and the writers' own literary tradition explains two of the most important characteristics of Spanish literature: its belatedness with respect to European trends and, more generally, its traditionalism, which, says Torrecilla, is a reaction not against modernity as such but against modernity as a ...

The book, unique in its kind, includes a total of 28 writers representative of 13 different Latin American countries, from those who are part of the canon such as Isabel Allende, Gioconda Belli, Liliana Heker, Nancy Morejon, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, Alfonsina Storni, Gabriela Mistral, and Julia de Burgos to emergent voices, such as Cecilia Bustamante, Rosina Valcarcel, and Gladys Ilarregui. This anthology will be the perfect text to give an overview of contemporary poetry and short story by leading Latin American women writers. The range of countries...

Situada en la tradición de la novela pastoril española y en deuda tanto con la “Arcadia” de Jacopo Sannazaro como con la lírica eclógica clásica y moderna, “La Galatea” es un “cercado laberinto” de amor y de poesía y un “lazo” de narraciones. Es, ciertamente, una novela de novelas en la que, sobre un relato primario esencialmente pastoril que oficia de hilo conductor, se suspenden, en ponderado equilibrio, hasta cuatro secundarios: el de Lisandro y Leonida; el de Teolinda, Artidoro, Leonarda y Galercio; el de Timbrio y Silerio, y el de Rosaura, Grisaldo y Artandro....