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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...

Este libro reúne siete estudios sobre aspectos doctrinales, problemas de transmisión y pervivencia de textos terapéuticos antiguos, griegos y latinos. Con la materia médica de origen vegetal y animal como hilo conductor, prestigiosos investigadores se ocupan de las obras de Celso, Dioscórides y Galeno, y de varios recetarios médicos de la Antigüedad Tardía, entre ellos, el De herbis femininis falsamente atribuido a Apuleyo y el LIber medicinae ex animalibus de Sexto Plácido

Desde su creacion entre 1636 y 1638, la obra popularmente conocida como El carnero (1859) ha sido fuente de polemica, la cual se desprende de su empleo del rumor como fuente historica y la narracion detallada, desvergonzada e incluso jocosa de una cotidianidad colonial que era publicamente rechazada pero puesta en practica entre las sombras por gran parte de los habitantes del Reino de Nueva Granada, hoy Colombia. Dicha obra ha logrado consolidarse como parte fundamental del ideario de una nacion, por lo cual resulta pertinente analizar el mensaje que pretende emitir: esa critica que se ha...

This volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial...