Crónica del rey Juan II de Castilla: Minoría y primeros años de reinado (1406-1420)

This collection of seventeen essays on Spanish Golden Age and Spanish American Colonial Poetry unites contributions from a cross-section of specialists in the field of Hispanic poetry. It places aesthetic questions in their broader European context, and looks beyond the confines of Europe to interrogate the key terms of its title, balancing panoramic approaches to questions of genre with the insights afforded by detailed readings of individual texts.

En 1850, Domingo F. Sarmiento publica Argirópolis, una utopía urbana en la que propone la isla Martín García como capital y sede de su proyecto utópico de pacificación regional, y promueve la creación de ciudades como vehículo de civilización para acabar con los "campos incultos". A través de este planteamiento geopolítico, las ciudades se constituyen en un instrumento clave para transformar el "vacío" americano en un espacio apto para los "pueblos civilizados". Retomando la propuesta de Sarmiento, el presente volumen examina la interrelación entre territorialidad urbana e...

Benito Perez Galdos sought a new narrative structure which would revitalize the literary models prevalent in 19th-century Spain. He found such a structure in the creation of a dialogue between normally incompatible texts — between old and new, national and foreign, high culture and low. From the confrontation of these incongruous texts a narrative is born which, through the destruction of textual hierarchies, creates an ambiguous and often duplicitous texture of storytelling. Five paradigms, based upon five Novelas Contemporaneas, are used to exemplify the dialogical structure of the new...

This work is a study of the "Galician Trilogy" written by Camilo Jose Cela, consisting of his novels "Mazurca para dos muertos" (1983), "La cruz de San Andres" (1994), and "Madera de boj" (1999).