El amor, la inocencia y otros excesos

Pasados quinientos años de la publicación, en Burgos, por Fadrique de Basilea de "La Celestina" (1499), aún hoy sigue despertando un apasionado interés, sin que haya opinión unánime sobre su autoría, género, fuentes, personajes, interpretación, didactismo, intención, concepción del amor que se defiende, etc., producto de la intencionada ambigüedad del léxico celestinesco, capaz de originar contrarias interpretaciones, como, por otra parte, ya advertía Rojas en el Prólogo de la Tragicomedia: "Y pues es antigua querella y visitada en largos tiempos, no quiero maravillarme si esta ...

Mariano José de Larra (1809-1837) was the most critical literary voice of the first third of the Spanish nineteenth century. Whether directed against censorship, the police and the Inquisition, or mypoic social attitudes and passing fads, his writings always showcased his unique, ironic and biting temperament. Moreover, many of his essays reflected the consequences of the ongoing urbanization of Madrid. The essays titled «Jardines públicos» (1834), «La fonda nueva» (1833), «Las casas nuevas» (1833), «La vida de Madrid» (1834) and «El día de Difuntos de 1836. Fígaro en el...

The story of the remarkable friendship between the Langs and Morgans. A novel brimming with wisdom on subjects as diverse as writing for money, solid marriages and academic promotion policies.

Dorothy Sherman Severin, who retired in 2008 from the Gilmour Chair of Spanish at the University of Liverpool, is an internationally renowned scholar in the field of the Late Medieval literature of Spain, with particular expertise in the study of Celestina and of the Cancioneros. In this volume, nineteen of her academic admirers have contributed original chapters in her honour, mostly on these same topics, under the editorship of the Hispanist Joseph T. Snow and Professor Severin’s Liverpool colleague Roger Wright. The contributors are: Rafael Beltran, Patrizia Botta, Alan Deyermond, Louise ...