The Poem of Fernán González

Aquest volum dedicat a Miguel Hernández presenta, en quatre grans apartats, una sèrie d'aportacions sobre aspectes molt significatius de la vida i l'obra del gran escriptor oriolà. Així, de la seva poesia s'analitzen els eixos temàtics articuladors del seu món poètic, les claus de la modelització lírica i les formes compositives; del seu teatre, es sistematitzen i expliquen determinats signes (mimètics i sacrificials) merceritzadores de la seua dramatúrgia. s'indaguen, també, les seves fonts formatives i es revisen i documenten les relacions d'amistat amb Aleixandre i González...

Mariselle Melendez studies the dynamics of colonial subject identity construction as elaborated in the exemplary eighteenth-century travel book, El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (A Guide for Inexperienced Travelers ). She analyzes elements of race and gender to argue that they become essential parts of the colonialist project which the author articulates throughout his travel diary by means of the voices of his two narrators: the Spanish Visitador Alonso Carrio de la Vandera and his companion and amanuensis, Calixto Bustamente Carlos Inca. Melendez shows how racial and cultural hybridity...

"El mundo está lleno de letras: unas son redondas como rosquillas; a otras parece que un mosquito le revolotea sobre la cabeza; las hay llenas de ondas como las olas del mar, o presumidas y con peineta... Todos son sorprendetemente divertidas. Y ocultan misterios fascinantes"--Back cover.

Candela always passes in front of a house covered with vines on her way home from school. The old mansion has been abandoned for so long that it must be concealing some sort of mystery. She has kept her distance, fearfully quickening her pace, but today a disturbing detail has called her attention: the glass door to the first-floor balcony is ajar. And if that isn't enough, she also seems to hear a whispering voice. Is there someone in the house? Curiosity can be more powerful than fear, and Candela obeys her instinct and crosses the threshold to find out who--or what--is hiding within.