Filosofia de Hielo y Fuego

Propuestas para (re)construir una nación explores how Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851–1921) imagines and engenders the Spanish nation in her theatrical production staged and/or published between 1898 and 1909. In the aftermath of Spain’s colonial losses, when Spain’s male authors, in a growing mood of collective introspection, directed their attention to the homeland, Pardo Bazán generated a series of theatrical proposals to revitalize the nation. In her plays, she manifests her ideas about Spain’s fin de siècle crisis, reflects on Spain’s place in the international arena (emphasizing...

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.

Amb aquesta edició crítica es rescata un valuós exemple de drama hagiogràfic barroc, dedicat a Juan de Dios (cap a 1495-1550), carismàtic fundador de l'Ordre Hospitalària. L'estudi introductori, després d'abordar la qüestió de la problemàtica i, en últim terme, rebutjable atribució a Pedro Calderón de la Barca, examina les modalitats d'adaptació de l? hipotext devot (la difosa biografia d'Antonio de Govea) a una dimensió dramàtica i espectacular que també ha de tenir en compte el cèlebre precedent lopesc de ?Juan de Dios i Antón Martín?. Així, l'anàlisi mostra com el...

Fourteen critical essays on Carlos Rojas, one of the leading contemporary Spanish novelists, and winner of the Premio Nacional de Literatura, the Premio Planeta and the Premio Nadal. A study of characterization, symbolism, time, magic, and death, makes this the most important and comprehensive examination of Rojas' outstanding novelistic contributions