El estudio de la prosodia en España en el siglo XXI

En este extenso ensayo, William Ospina, analiza de manera magistral al poeta Juan de Castellanos y su obra sobre la conquista de Ámerica.

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.

Este libro reúne cuatro historias. Dos de ellas se aproximan a lo que llamaríamos 'novela corta': Mayo en Tánger, que es una historia de traficantes y Treinta dólores prestados, que narra los negocios de un emigrante gallego en Cuba y Venezuela y su retorno a la tierra natal. Los otros dos relatos son más breves y tienen un carácter más simbólico que los anteriores: Camino de vuelta, nos cuenta el viaje de vuelta a su tribu de un mercenario celtíbero en la época romana, y El dueño del trigo, que transcurre en el México recién colonizado, donde un adolescente hijo de conquistador...

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...