Los grupos políticos y sociales en la Crońica sarracina

A study of letter-writing in Renaissance Spain. The subject of this book is the art of letter-writing in the Renaissance period, which, particularly in the case of Spain, has been unjustly neglected. The first part examines two major sixteenth-century treatises on letter-writing, Erasmus's Opus de conscribendis epistolis (1522) and Juan Luis Vives's De conscribendis epistolis(1536), concluding that the two were composed independently, rather than one being derived from the other. The author goes on to look at two important collections of letters, Fray Antonio de Guevara's Epístolas...

Bartolome Hidalgo (Montevideo, 1788 - Moron, Buenos Aires Province, 1822) is the first poet to have utilized the Spanish language to capture the qualities of gaucho speech His writings, comprising a series of lyrical, narrative and dialogic texts about current political concerns of the second and third decades of the 19th century in both margins of the Rio de la Plata, have been recognized by the most respected literary critics of the region -Sarmiento, Mitre, Leguizamon, Rojas, Falcao Espalter, Borges- as the initiation of this most original genre, and Hidalgo, consequently, the first...

Este libro analiza siete traducciones de obras dramáticas de Shakespeare al español: los Hamlet de Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1798), José María Pemán y Salvador de Madariaga (ambos de 1949), Macbeth de José García de Villalta (1838), Domando la tarasca, traducción de The Taming of the Shrew de María de la O Lejárraga (1917), Otelo o el pañuelo encantado de León Felipe (1960) y El mercader de Venecia de Vicente Molina Foix (1995), todas ellas concebidas para ser representadas y no simplemente leídas. El objetivo es investigar de forma interdisciplinar estas traducciones,...

Este libro explora la representación de la mujer moderna en los escritos de Federica Montseny (1905-1994), prominente líder anarquista española en las décadas de 1920 y 1930. This book explores the figure of the modern woman in the writings of Federica Montseny (1905-1994), a prominent Spanish anarchist leader during the 1920s and 1930s.