Poética

The first systematic study of the Aristotelian theory of anagnorisis in 16c Spanish drama. Anagnorisis - `recognition' or `discovery' - is a key element of Aristotelian literary theory. This book is the first systematic study of its presence in Spanish drama of the sixteenth century, a period in which Aristotelian theory was widely disseminated. Professor Garrido begins by examining the theory of anagnorisis developed by Aristotle and his sixteenth-century commentators. She then analyses its use in a large corpus of Spanish plays from the period1515-87. Her survey is divided into two parts,...

Dos hermanas, descubren en el desván de su abuela, un baúl mágico, que les transportará a un mágico país...

This volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial...

Este libro pretende historiografiar los textos de una tradición en la literatura hispánica que constituyen eslabones de la misma cadena: la defensa de la mujer como concepto intelectual y literario. Partimos en este estudio de textos medievales, sobre todo de la primera mitad del siglo XV, y acabamos con documentos del siglo XVII que anteceden directamente las vindicaciones del siglo xviii que se convertirán en la base del pensamiento ilustrado con respecto a la temática genérica y sexual.