Melancolía en la poesía de José María Heredia

Buero attaches great relevance to the power of madness and dreams, and makes use of what he regards as one of Cervantes' greatest achievements: the fusion of fantasy and reality.

An anthology of Spanish women writers from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century. Water Lilies brings to light a rich & until now, largely invisible version of Spanish literary history. These hard-to-find works, most translated for the first time, are printed on facing pages in Spanish & English & are located within a critical, biographical & historical overview.

La figura biográfica y artística de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz es una de las más singulares dentro de las letras universales. Su voluntad de desarrollo intelectual, vedado a las mujeres de su tiempo, la llevó a consagrarse a la vida religiosa a través de la cual logró el anhelado contacto con la literatura, las ciencias y la filosofía. Si bien sus textos no están marcados por una complejidad inaccesible, este libro repone algunos elementos contextuales que ayudan a enriquecer la comprensión de su lírica excepcional y propone interesantes recorridos para abordar la lectura de su obra.

Among the multiple approaches to be taken on an author as multifaceted and prolific as the recent Nobel Laureate Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Guadalupe Mart�-Pe�a has chosen to look at the novelist as an illusionist. She studies this land of fantasies and daydreams, that seemingly harmless battlefield where literature, theatre, and painting contend and join together with the writer, the dreamer, and the illusionist to oust reality. Focusing on Elogio de la madrastra and Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto, and the effect of illusion on the reading process, she argues that by referring...