La Española - Isla de Encuentros / Hispaniola - Island of Encounters

Primera obra enteramente dedicada al puertorriqueño Díaz Valcárcel. El autor analiza toda su producción, redimiendo una injusticia que ha restado importancia a un novelista que obtuvo, sin embargo, amplio éxito de crítica y público.

Un ensayo fundamental sobre la melancolía en el Siglo de Oro español, clave para entender su presencia en la Europa moderna. La melancolía, que recorre la historia del mundo hasta nuestros días, es uno de los ejes fundamentales de la cultura renacentista y barroca, e impregna las obras de autores como Shakespeare o Montaigne. Ensayistas como Panofsky, Kristeva o Starobinski la han estudiado desde diversos ángulos, pero conceden escasa o nula atención a su relevancia en el Siglo de Oro español. Es precisamente en este periodo y escenario en el que Roger Bartra centra su atención. El...

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.

The first systematic study of the Aristotelian theory of anagnorisis in 16c Spanish drama. Anagnorisis - `recognition' or `discovery' - is a key element of Aristotelian literary theory. This book is the first systematic study of its presence in Spanish drama of the sixteenth century, a period in which Aristotelian theory was widely disseminated. Professor Garrido begins by examining the theory of anagnorisis developed by Aristotle and his sixteenth-century commentators. She then analyses its use in a large corpus of Spanish plays from the period1515-87. Her survey is divided into two parts,...