El mulato

Este libro explora el componente primitivista del modernismo que informó la vanguardia europea de las tres primeras décadas del siglo XX, a traves de la obra de la pintora María Blanchard (1881-1932) y de su recepción. La reevaluación del papel y la contribución de la pintora al proyecto vanguardista se realiza mediante un examen crítico de la visión de escritores y críticos contemporáneos españoles y extranjeros que han configurado posteriores interpretaciones de su obra. La originalidad de esta investigación consiste en la combinación de un enfoque feminista con un estudio...

The volume gathers eleven contributions on the origins, evolution and function of female models in Western culture, from Greco-Roman texts to medieval and Renaissance literature. Organized in four thematic blocks, the book intends to elucidate how misogynistic discourse and its opposite are constructed in literary and didactical works dealing with feminine archetypes.

Reviewers have celebrated this important volume as the first comprehensive critical appraisal of the 1997 Nobel Prize laureate for literature. The volume features an introduction, an extensive annotated bibliography, an index, and Aleixandre's Nobel Prize acceptance lecture.

A romance between a priest and a nun-in-training leads to her pregnancy and his suicide. She is Gabriella Harrison, daughter of parents who abandoned her to a convent. The affair leads to her expulsion and she becomes a writer.