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Este libro recoge las actas del primer encuentro del programa « MISSIVA – Cartas de mujeres en la Europa medieval (España, Francia, Italia, Portugal, siglos VIII-XV) » en el marco de los programas plurianuales de la École des Hautes Études Hispaniques et Ibériques – Casa de Velázquez (Madrid). Las contribuciones reunidas en este volumen, dedicadas a la correspondencia entre mujeres y la emergencia de lo que se podría considerar como verdaderas cadenas de mediación, ofrecen una reflexión sobre el interés de la materia epistolar para reconstruir la historia de las mujeres....

This book is written in Spanish. This book is a study of the intellectual and cultural atmosphere surrounding the Spanish author don Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645) during his stay at the Courts of Palermo and Naples (1613-1619) in the service of the Viceroy Duke of Osuna. Attention is paid particularly to his early knowledge of the works of the poet Marino, his role as protector of the Arts, and as intercessor on behalf of the philosopher Campanella. The second part of the book offers a detailed analysis of the author's writings during his Italian and post-Italian years as a result of his...

En este trabajo se analizan comparativamente los "Bildungsromane femeninos" de la escritora mexicana Carmen Boullosa y de la chicana Sandra Cisneros. This work is a comparative analysis of the female Bildungsromane of Mexican writer Carmen Boullosa and Chicana writer Sandra Cisneros.

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...