Literatura giennense en el siglo XVIII

El viaje de Gide es un recorrido por la accidentada geografía de la intolerancia: más allá de Rusia, por las patrias presentes y futuras de la utopía total. "Con este libro Ruy Sánchez se ha revelado como uno de nuestros mejores ensayistas. Su escritura es nerviosa y ágil, su inteligencia aguda sin ser cruel, su ánimo compasivo sin condescencia ni complicidad [...] "Tiene la riqueza de detalles de una crónica histórica y la penetración psicológica de una novela. [...] En una prosa nítida y rápida Alberto Ruy Sánchez nos relata una historia compleja en la que la psicología...

A study of the relationship betwen court festivity and theatre in 16c Spain. Dr Ferrer Valls studies the relationship between court festivity and theatre in the sixteenth century, placing special emphasis on staging. She argues that throughout the reign of Philip II court spectacle perpetuates the complicated staging of traditional performances, but with greater emphasis on their dramatic aspects and on the use of music and song. In the first two decades of the seventeenth century, and above all in specific plays by Lope de Vega, court spectacles come to reflect also the influence of Italian...

Don Catrín de la Fachenda is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776-1827), best known as the author of El periquillo sarniento (The Itching Parrot), often called the first Latin American novel. Don Catrín is three things at once: a rakish pícaro in the tradition of the picaresque; a catrín, a dandy or fop; and a criollo, a person born in the New World and belonging to the same dominant class as their Spanish-born parents but relegated to a secondary status. The novel interrogates then current ideas about the supposed innateness of race and...

Indagación de la literatura cubana desde los textos precursores de Antonio Bachiller y Aurelio Mitjans hasta las valoraciones consumadas de Cintio Vitier y Roberto Fernández Retamar. La crítica de este discurso le permite a Rojas advertir los cruces y desencuentros de tres cánones literarios: el nacional cubano, el regional latinoamericano y el universal occidental.