Lo real y lo imaginario. Ensayos literarios

Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...

Una reivindicación del amor pasional como fuerza creadora. «Fresca e inteligente. Nehring lleva al lector por un viaje fascinante que bebe de la mejor literatura.» Mario Vargas Llosa Desde siempre, el hecho de vivir de una manera intensa una pasión amorosa se ha considerado como una mancha negra a la hora de valorar la capacidad intelectual de una mujer, un hecho que en cambio no se da en el caso de los hombres. Muchos criticaron, por ejemplo, a Mary Wollstonecraft –la autora de los Derechos de la mujer- por haber sucumbido al amor por un hombre hasta el punto de intentar dos veces el...

"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 ...

"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...