Rapsodia valleinclaniana: escritura narrativa y escritura teatral

Acclaimed authors write about the city of Barcelona, Spain, in a collection that features contributions by Paul Auster, Colm Toibin, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, and Juan Marsé, among others.

Antonio Perez, the brilliant but erratic secretary to Philip II of Spain, became in the years of his exile a political agent in the service of the Earl of Essex, arriving at the Court of Queen Elizabeth in 1593. On behalf of Essex, who valued him as a friend, a partner and a humanist scholar, he cast an intelligence network over Italy; and he made a striking, though dangerous, contribution to the Essex cult.

The two volumes gather the most important findings of the nine sessions held at the Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (AIH) conference in Münster, Germany, in 2016. The contributions focus, for example, on convergences and divergences between the holy and profane in medieval literature, on the constitution and construction of the "I" in Siglo de oro prose and poetry, or on the importance of space in theatre. Other central topics are transitions (in 18th- and 19th-century literature), crises and disruptions (in modern and contemporary literature), as well as transculturations and...

Esta es la primera edición moderna, crítica y anotada, de las Academias morales de las Musas, una amplia y variada recopilación de poemas y comedias con las que su autor (conquense de origen judío, perseguido por la Inquisición, desterrado a Francia y vuelto a España, donde murió en las cárceles del Santo Oficio) quiso presentarse ante el público español e internacional de su tiempo.