El sexo en la literatura

Documentación con lujo de detalles de una serie de producciones montadas en el Coliseo del Buen Retiro en Madrid durante el reinado del primero de los Borbones, Felipe V.

In this brilliant overview of parodic praxis in the Spanish-American novel during the years 1960-1985, Elzbieta SkPlodowska examines several aspects of parody: its role in the renovation of anachronistic forms of discourse (mock-epic) and the re-writing of the canon of the historical novel; its function in transgressing literary formulas (detective novel); its subversive quality in the counter-discourse of women writers; and the relation between parody, satire, irony, humor, and metafiction. This sound analysis of some twenty-five novels, carefully illustrated by works little treated in...

La imagen de Ernest Hemingway en la barrera, con boina y la mirada puesta en el ruedo, ha llegado a ser un tópico en el recuerdo colectivo del autor en España, aunque no es una fiel representación de lo que era para los españoles de esa época el norteamericano. Después de muchas décadas sin conocer la narrativa del Premio Nobel de 1954, los españoles empezaron a leer sus obras en los años cincuenta y los críticos y escritores a analizarla y valorarla. Sin olvidar su afición por los toros y su imagen popular, este libro documenta la recepción de la obra del norteamericano en la...

A study of the relationship betwen court festivity and theatre in 16c Spain. Dr Ferrer Valls studies the relationship between court festivity and theatre in the sixteenth century, placing special emphasis on staging. She argues that throughout the reign of Philip II court spectacle perpetuates the complicated staging of traditional performances, but with greater emphasis on their dramatic aspects and on the use of music and song. In the first two decades of the seventeenth century, and above all in specific plays by Lope de Vega, court spectacles come to reflect also the influence of Italian...