Trazos impersonales

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,...

This is an essay in which rust and idleness become the first reason and the last sense of life. The new work by Fanadelli tries to answer the questions that obsess its author: Why do we live in such an absolutely hopeless time? How do men squashed by modernity and the archetypal structures of culture can coexist and relate to each other? How do the different paths identify among themselves, how can those of us who surrender the loads that others support identify ourselves and face the world? Ensayo en el que la herrumbre y la vagancia se vuelven el primer motivo y el ltimo sentido de la vida. ...

This study deals with the experience of exile in the works of three Spanish American writers: The Cuban authors Reinaldo Arenas and Manuel Diaz Martinez, as well as the Uruguayan author Fernando Ainsa. Along with the reshaping of territories, and socio-economic and cultural dimensions which took place on a worldwide scale, the last few decades have also witnessed a reshaping of the spectrum and voices of Latin-American writers that create, revisit and suffer the complex and multifaceted phenomenon of exile. The displaced subject, or rather, the voices of the displaced, the marginalized and...

Estudio crítico de la literatura contemporánea chinoamericana. Desde los procesos de construcción de conceptos tales como género, raza e identidad étnica, la explosión nos conduce a una teoría de la constelación de diferencias lejanas a la intolerancia y cercana al mestizaje de culturas.