La adquisición del sistema verbal español por aprendices alemanes y el papel del aspecto gramatical

A thorough study of the life and works of the Chilean poet, winner of the 1991 "Premio Pablo Neruda."

La literatura no ha existido siempre. Los discursos a los que hoy aplicamos el nombre de «literarios» constituyen una realidad histórica que sólo ha podido surgir a partir de una serie de condiciones –asimismo históricas– muy estrictas: las condiciones derivadas del nivel ideológico característico de las formaciones sociales «modernas» o «burguesas» en sentido general. En consecuencia, habrá que preguntarse: ¿qué caracterizaciones concretas otorga el horizonte teórico actual a los discursos literarios? ¿Qué sentido real puede poseer entonces toda esa amplia gama de...

Antonio Perez, the brilliant but erratic secretary to Philip II of Spain, became in the years of his exile a political agent in the service of the Earl of Essex, arriving at the Court of Queen Elizabeth in 1593. On behalf of Essex, who valued him as a friend, a partner and a humanist scholar, he cast an intelligence network over Italy; and he made a striking, though dangerous, contribution to the Essex cult.

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.