La pasión de la Bella Otero

Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, Mar�a Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832?95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. An aristocratic Californiana, she championed the rights of Mexican Americans in novels, plays, and letters. Her 1885 novel called attention to the illegal appropriation of Mexican land by the United States government, and she critiqued the political mores of America after the Civil War in light of the Mexican-American war. Her keen assessment of corporate capitalism at the end of the nineteenth...

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...

Los músicos de Brema (en alemán: “Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten”) es una fábula notable escrita en 1812 por los célebres Hermanos Grimm (Jacob y Wilhelm). La historia narra la maravillosa odisea de un burro, un perro, un gato y un gallo que, maltratados por sus dueños, deciden seguir hasta la ciudad de Brema, donde aspiraban a ser músicos profesionales y conquistar la libertad. Esta fábula simboliza la historia de cuatro campesinos que se rebelan contra el régimen feudal impuesto por sus patrones y que los hermanos Grimm iban a adaptar de forma notable transformando a los personajes...

El libro lo componen seis ensayos que se ocupan de examinar el tratamiento del mar en periodos de nuestra literatura y en autores concretos. El recorrido abarca desde las cantigas galaico-portuguesas a la poesía contemporánea. Seis visiones sobre la conceptualización del mar en la literatura hispánica.