Ángeles Mastretta: Textual Multiplicity (Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografías ; 217)

This book offers the first panoramic study on the development and characteristics of the literary-journalistic genre of spectator periodicals in Hispanic America and Brazil. After contextualizing these publications within the emancipation processes of 19th-century American Enlightenment, it explores the new coexistence modes and esthetics they disseminated.

Annotation Between 1605 and 1621, Quevedo wrote a sequence of five "Dreams" or "Visions" "(Suenos y discursos), in each of which he hilariously envisions Spanish society as populated by people rightfully condemned to Hell. These astonishingly witty and irreverent satires of contemporary Spanish culture, morality, prejudice and religious fanaticism, were composed in a style as allusive, elliptical and equivocal as to successfully entertain both those who barely understood their full range and import, and others who celebrated the poet's rebellious insinuations. Censorship prohibited the...

An examination of the novels of Jose Luis Castillo-Puche that specifically deal with the religious ideal and his experience of the religious seminary. The study of the novels of the Trilogia de la Liberacion is preceded by an introduction which looks at the connection between the author's life and his literature and also certain features of narrative style.

En este último tomo, titulado «La edad ecléctica», de la monumental obra «Historia crítica de la literatura uruguaya», Carlos Roxlo analiza y explica la literatura uruguaya publicada entre 1900 y 1916 y aborda temas como los conceptos literarios de género y subgénero, el movimiento simbolista y a autores como Julio Herrera y Reissig o Emilio Frugoni. Carlos Roxlo (1861-1926) fue un poeta, periodista y político uruguayo. Sus obras, fuertemente vinculadas a la poesía gauchesca, tuvieron una gran popularidad a finales del siglo XIX. Militó en el Partido Nacional, fue elegido diputado ...