Garcilaso de la Vega and the Italian Renaissance

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...

"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...

Visión de conjunto del formalismo, sus perspectivas teóricas y sus relaciones conceptuales con otras corrientes del pensamiento crítico.

Libro que analiza la articulación de la colonialiad del poder comprendido como uno de los vectores privilegiados del sistema-mundo capitalista desde su configuración primigenia en el siglo XVI. En él, su autor introduce la noción de «diferencia colonial» y traza la emergencia de nuevas formas de conocimiento que denomina «pensamiento fronterizo».