Diccionario Akal de Términos Literarios

Los cerca de sesenta relatos de horror que escribió H.P. Lovecraft en su corta vida le dieron una nueva dimensión a la literatura de terror, que ya no sería la misma después de él. Lovecraft logró trascender el horror puramente humano de diablos, brujas y vampiros e intuyó una realidad oculta, cósmica, terrorífica, y apenas descriptible: imaginó un espantoso panteón de deidades, los «Primordiales» o «Grandes Antiguos», con el dios ciego e idiota Azatoth a la cabeza («una ruina amorfa de absoluta confusión que blasfema y babea en el centro del infinito»), Yog-Sothoth,...

This analysis shows that Reinaldo Arenas' work is one of exile and alienation. Arenas, as a human being as well as an author, suffered all forms of exile, and these influence the structure of his work. In his literary work, as well as in his life, all the definitions of exile given by sociology are present; that of inner exile, to which Arenas added a new characteristic, and that of territorial exile as well. His work represents the vision of the marginated, imprisoned, persecuted, rejected. The purpose of his novels and poetry is to reveal, from a historical reconstruction, the explanation...

This study explores the interaction of language, culture and identity in contemporary Catalonia and rejects the exclusion of Castilian as a language capable of expressing 'Catalan-ness'. This study, charting the construction of a Catalan identity from the nineteenth-century cultural renaissance until the present day, explores the interaction of language, culture and identity in contemporary Catalonia. Drawing on postcolonial and multicultural literary theories, it argues that Castilian- and Catalan-language narratives are expressions of the same culture. Through detailed analyses of texts by...

Esta es la primera edición moderna, crítica y anotada, de las Academias morales de las Musas, una amplia y variada recopilación de poemas y comedias con las que su autor (conquense de origen judío, perseguido por la Inquisición, desterrado a Francia y vuelto a España, donde murió en las cárceles del Santo Oficio) quiso presentarse ante el público español e internacional de su tiempo.