MELILLA Y LA POESÍA ESPAÑOLA DESDE 1900

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...

Una introducción a la semiótica de la mano de su mayor experto: Umberto Eco Después de Obra abierta, en la que estudiaba los lenguajes experimentales del arte contemporáneo, y de Apocalípticos e integrados, donde abordaba las técnicas y los temas de la comunicación de masas, Umberto Eco analiza aquí las fronteras de la semiótica. Comprender los sistemas de signos obliga a ver los códigos como estructuras y explicarlas a través de otras estructuras más vastas, en un movimiento regresivo hacia la matriz originaria de toda comunicación, hasta llegar a una estructura no estructurada. ...

Le tre commedie presentate, che apparvero postume nella Vega del Parnaso di Lope de Vega, rivelano interessanti percorsi testuali. Nel caso del Guante de doña Blanca assistiamo ad un intreccio di fonti: una diffusa leggenda spagnola, già raccolta dal letterato Matteo Bandello (Castelnuovo Scrivia 1485 - Agen 1561), probabilmente ravviva l'interesse di Lope per il racconto, che tuttavia egli ambienta in un mitico Portogallo medioevale; a questo "viaggio" risponde poi quello della diffusione del testo letterario a stampa, tra le Partes non autorizzate e la raccolta curata dall'autore....

There was much excitement on the small mountain farm. All the animals were waiting for the new horse to be brought in. They expected him to be snow-white, tall and thin. When the trailer with the horse arrived at the farm, Katja the Cow saw him. The animals were convinced that they would meet a unicorn. But would they?