Al hijo que no tengo

By insisting that women should be equal partners, Pardo Bazán problematically adopted the patriarchal binarism that assigns women to Nature and men to Culture, but she also subverted it by denying its supplemental relationship. Her astute choice and manipulation of masculine cultural models (Realism, not Romanticism; prose, not poetry; Castilian language, not Galician) ultimately won her--despite fierce opposition--inclusion in the Spanish national canon. Furthermore, the study of her thorny relations with emerging Galician nationalism shows that her exclusion from "Galician literature" was...

In 1981, on the basis of documentary evidence, the authors identified the site of the first public theatre in Alcala de Henares, dating from the time of Cervantes. The building, which had been most recently in use as a cinema, showed evidence of four periods of dramatic activity: the original corral de comedias, an 18th century horse-shoe amphitheatre, an elliptical amphitheatre of Roman period, and the cinema. Research in archives provided a wealth of documentation up to the 19th century, covering all aspects of theatrical life, from the original contract for the construction of the corral...

“Cuento de nochebuena”, de Rubén Darío; “El primer milagro”, José Martínez Ruiz, “Azorín”; “El regalo de navidad”, de Grazia Deledda; “La pequeña cerillera”, de Hans Christian Andersen; “El Olentzero y la Navidad”, cuento tradicional vasco; “Vanka”, de Antón Chejov; “El cuarto rey de oriente”, leyenda popular alemana; “Canción de navidad”, de Charles Dickens; “El regalo de los magos”, de O. Henry; “Te regalo mi cumpleaños”, de Seve Calleja. En esta breve antología, complementada con un prólogo sobre la literatura navideña y un...

Una colección de rigurosos ensayos históricos sobre las imágenes que diferentes pueblos europeos elaboraron en el periodo sobre España y los españoles. España era entonces la principal potencia político-militar europea con una ostensible presencia cultural y religiosa, de ahí la contundencia de las imágenes y los estereotipos que forjaron parte de la llamada leyenda negra.