Ni orden ni patria

La primera obra maestra de la literatura espanola. Texto original y transcripcion moderna. Edicion, adaptacion, prologo y notas del celebre critico literario Juan Bautista Bergua. El Poema del Cid, o Cantar de Mio Cid, es el primer monumento a la literatura espanola. Es un cantar de gesta escrito por un juglar anonimo aproximadamente en el ano 1200, despues de la muerte del heroe. Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, "el Cid Campeador," es la mejor representacion del caballero heroico espanol, figura historica y legendaria de la Reconquista. Ni el mismisimo Cid podia imaginarse la trascendencia de su vida...

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...

This edition comprises selected examples of the Cuban writer Ofelia Rodriguez Acosta' s prose, including her best known novel and samples of her short stories, essays and journalism works. These texts range from raw realism to lyrical exaltation; from the direct portayal of the historical moment to the meticulous insight of the human psyche. Her peculiar naturalism bloomed under the influence of the philosophical currents of her times, encompassing echoes of Positivism, but after a passionate discussion against Existentialism her writing steerer towards the Latin American avant-garde...

This is the first collection of criticism on Mario Benedetti's work published in Spanish covering his literary works, the major themes of his writing, cinematic interpretations of his works, and his political commitments.