Las ruinas del paraíso

This book is virtually the only source of knowledge concerning its author's early life. He was born in Montemor-o-Velho some ten or twelve years before the death of King Manuel in December 1521. About the time of the latter event he to Lisbon and intered 'the service or relatives.'

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 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.

Este libro, que obtuvo el Premio de Investigación "Concepción Arenal" de Humanidades de 2006, es, a la vez, un análisis de las claves del género lírico desde una óptica pragmática y estructural, una afirmación crítica de la pertinencia de una lectura de género y de los rasgos diferenciales de la escritura femenina, y, finalmente, un estudio de la obra lírica de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz desde esas perspectivas. Se trata, pues, de un trabajo que, instalado en las inquietudes dominantes de la Teoría de la Literatura y la Literatura Comparada, aporta esa novedad de trazar el camino...