La anarquía inmanentista de Manuel González Prada

This volume of essays in Spanish and English examines some of the key issues which surround the emergence of the Avant-Garde novel in Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century. The experimental novel of the 1920s is seen as the culmination of a process of change in approaches to the novel which began early in the century and was further promoted by Spain's key Avant-Gardist Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Several essays focus on the form of the novel and seek to shed new light on the role of José Ortega y Gasset as mentor to the new writers of the 1920s and on our understanding of his use...

Cuando a nuestra generación destruya el tiempo tú permanecerás, entre penas distintas de las nuestras, amiga de los hombres, diciendo: "La belleza es verdad y la verdad belleza"... Nada más se sabe en esta tierra y no más hace falta Jhon Keats, "A una urna griega"

Aprovechar las enseñanzas de la Historia, recurrir al pasado remoto o reciente para mostrar en sus héroes, recreados por el teatro, su dimensión arquetípica y modélica, tales son los propósitos de la dramatización de la materia histórica durante el Siglo de Oro español. La Historia no sólo sirvió de mero marco temporal para ubicar la acción dramática de las piezas en un contexto preciso. Las variaciones, anacronismos evidentes o sincronismos implícitos, a partir dde las fuentes manejadas deben leerse como verdaderas estrategias del dramaturgo. El anclaje histórico de los...

PolitÌca / sexualidad shows that during the 1980s a traceable phenomenon in Latin American women's writing is the creation of a knot in which sexuality becomes entangled with politics. Women's writing struggles to create a political reading of the discourse of sexuality and likewise show how political space forces the private sphere to impose itself upon the sexuality of women. At one level of representation, a woman's body is the space where discourse merges the joyful experience of pleasure with the pain of repression. This book is a contribution to the construction of a Latin American...