Fabliaux III

Laura asks her father whether or not various animals fart like people do and he tries to imagine if the animals do or not.

This work studies Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas' poetry in Leprosorio. It examines the problems of culture in conflict: the perspective of both exiled people who have left Cuba and the marginalized population left on the island, the use of slang and idioms created by people in the 1960s and 70s, and the impact produced by political terror.

La psicología literaria no es la psicología aplicada a la literatura, sino la psicología (o el estudio de las formas del alma) que nace de la experiencia literaria. Asociamos la literatura con los libros sin prestar la debida atención a su oralidad. Nada hay que dure, decía Carlyle, como la palabra verdaderamente hablada. El contexto es determinante, sin duda, como en Shakespeare, cuyo genio parece recuperar con la lectura lo que se ha perdido en la representación. Sin embargo, no podemos descartar lo que en su origen ha sido el hecho literario cuando los mismos géneros parecen...

Within the historic events in the 1930's Spain, among whose most important outcome stands the triumph of the Spanish Second Republic (1931), Jose Diaz Fernandez released his book of essays, El Nuevo Romanticismo (The New Romanticism), a compendium of his observations on art, literature, feminism, liberalism, and politics, all five understood as parts of the vital and social processes. Besides being a panoramic scan of the issues that marked the Spanish and European culture during the period between wars, this book expresses a defined will to guide the artistic Avant Gardes and to consolidate...