El Castillo de cristal II.

En 1919 Vicente Blasco Ibáñez viajó a Estados Unidos, laureado por un éxito espectacular. ¿Fue acaso un inesperado golpe de fortuna lo que convirtió “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” en todo un fenómeno editorial que iba a permitir a Blasco sumar un interesante nuevo capítulo a su hasta entonces novelesca biografía? Sea cual sea la respuesta, el triunfo del escritor en Norteamérica repercutió decisivamente en su trayectoria artística y personal, y al mismo tiempo contribuyó a despertar el interés hacia la literatura española al otro lado del Atlántico. Desde el estudio ...

Language-as signifier and signified-serves as the focus of Diz's book on the Conde Lucanor. This is, indeed, an intelligent reading of the Conde Lucanor which will have considerable impact on Juan Manuel criticism and fourteenth-century studies.

Antonio Perez, the brilliant but erratic secretary to Philip II of Spain, became in the years of his exile a political agent in the service of the Earl of Essex, arriving at the Court of Queen Elizabeth in 1593. On behalf of Essex, who valued him as a friend, a partner and a humanist scholar, he cast an intelligence network over Italy; and he made a striking, though dangerous, contribution to the Essex cult.

This trilingual volume examines the extent to which myths are affected by the crises of the 20th and 21st centuries. It brings together four theoretical studies which analyse both the crisis of structure – implying the distortion or disappearance of myth – and the crisis of concepts and terminology that currently threaten the study of mythology. The largest section of the volume focuses on the crises that have affected ancient, medieval and modern literary myths from a global perspective, taking into account psychology, ethics, politics and contemporary meta-literature. The final section...