¿Luis Vives o Antonio de Guevara? El inicio del enigma.

Der Dialog wird zunehmend als eine zentrale Gattung der Renaissanceliteratur erkannt. Ihr hybrider Charakter zwischen Fiktion und Sachtext macht Renaissancedialoge dabei in mehrfacher Hinsicht interessant - behandeln sie doch in fiktionalen Gesprachsszenarien theoretische Fragen. Einen Sonderweg geht die lukianeske Dialogtradition. Ihre haufig phantastischen Gesprachspartner machen das satirische Element stark. Dialoge aus Spanien und Portugal harren allerdings noch weitgehend ihrer Entdeckung. In diesem Band werden sie in herausragenden Beispielen vorgestellt und fuer den katalanischen und...

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...

The book offers an in-depth, critical appreciation of seven major Spanish poets. Emphasis is on the modern period, with five of the poets being twentieth-century poets. It is argued that the roots of modern poetry are to be found in Romanticism's anguished search for meaning. The seven Spanish poets include Becquer, Rosalia de Castro, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillen, Pedro Salinas, Garcia Lorca and Rafael Alberti.

This work features the best bibliography ever assembled on commonplace books and literature in English. The book focuses on writing, writers and the joys as well as travails of travel.