Trazos impersonales

Componen este libro seis ensayos que se ocupan de examinar el tratamiento del mar en diferentes periodos de la literatura española y en autores concretos en cuyas obras el mar ha adquirido especial relevancia y significado. El recorrido abarca desde las cantigas galaico-portuguesas a la poesía contemporánea e indaga en seis visiones sobre la conceptualización del mar en la literatura hispánica, tomando como referencia central la importancia del mar en uno de los libros centrales de Juan Ramón Jiménez: Diario de un poeta recién casado.

Número especial sobre Ezra Pound, que incluye las memorias de Williams Carlos Williams sobre sus visitas al manicomio de St. Elizabeths; ensayos sobre la poesía de Pound por T. S. Eliot; un reciente texto de Neil Leadbeater sobre Pound y su traducción de "The Seafarer". Reúne una gran cantidad de poemas del autor --desde trabajos inéditos, escritos en la universidad, y textos recogidos de A Lume Spento, Canzoni, Ripostes, Lustra, Personae, The Cantos, etcétera. A modo de posdata, se incluyen las memorias de Noel Stock (biógrafo de Pound), trabajos de Jared Spears, "Ezra Pound y el...

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...

This trilingual volume examines the extent to which myths are affected by the crises of the 20th and 21st centuries. It brings together four theoretical studies which analyse both the crisis of structure – implying the distortion or disappearance of myth – and the crisis of concepts and terminology that currently threaten the study of mythology. The largest section of the volume focuses on the crises that have affected ancient, medieval and modern literary myths from a global perspective, taking into account psychology, ethics, politics and contemporary meta-literature. The final section...