Hombres fatales

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...

Francisco de Aldana reune las virtudes humanas y literarias del siglo XVI. Su vida puede encuadrarse como la del perfecto soldado, capitan muerto en una campana militar, y su obra destaca por el compendio de rasgos renacentistas.

How Far is America From Here? approaches American nations and cultures from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It is very much at the heart of this comparative agenda that “America” be considered as a hemispheric and global matter. It discusses American identities relationally, whether the relations under discussion operate within the borders of the United States, throughout the Americas, and/or worldwide. The various articles here gathered interrogate the very notion of “America”: which, whose America, when, why now, how? What is meant by “far”—distance,...

Este conjunto de articulos se centra en los textos de la autora espanola Clara Janes. Es fruto de un encuentro entre investigadores europeos y norte-americanos, especialistas de su extensa obra. El eje escogido es el de la dialectica entre verdades y secretos que impregna mas o menos abiertamente ciertas creaciones. En estas creaciones, el secreto no consiste en un elemento escondido, disimulado que se trataria de compartir o de desvelar, sino en un sustrato, un mecanismo -bifido- que conserva lo que, en un mismo movimiento revela y significa. El secreto se convierte en una dimension que el...