Poética

En el siglo XVIII Ana María Castellanos es condenada por incitar a la fuga a los soldados del Fuerte del Carmen; durante tres días con sus noches arden , a lo largo de la pampa patagónica, hogueras para honrar a María la Grande, cacique de guerreros Tehuelches; Gertrudis Sánchez, esposa del gobernador de Malvinas, protagoniza un dramático episodio al tiempo que los ingleses se apoderan de las islas; una cuatrera, Elena Greenhill, conocida como "la inglesa", se transforma en una leyenda por secuestrar a un comisario; poco después del desembarco de los galeses en Chubut una mujer...

To complement the historical survey, a brief description of the social environment in Los Angeles is included. In addition, a short presentation on how the Spanish printing press and newspapers evolved in America is presented to show how these two processes contributed to the literary and cultural background of this ethnic group.

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...

Desde mediados del siglo XIX se imprimieron en Alemania libros en español destinados a un activo mercado: manuales colecciones de clásicos, novelas edificantes, gramáticas, etc. Esta obra repasa y analiza dichas ediciones.