La interpretación abierta

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.

This volume of collected essays explores the premise that Plutarch's work, notwithstanding its amazing thematic multifariousness, constantly pivots on certain ideological pillars which secure its unity and coherence. So, unlike other similar books which, more or less, concentrate on either the Lives or the Moralia or on some particular aspect(s) of Plutarch's oeuvre, the articles of the present volume observe Plutarch at work in both Lives and Moralia, thus bringing forward and illustrating the inner unity of his varied literary production. The subject-matter of the volume is uncommonly...

Es publiquen en aquest volum una sèrie de comunicacions sobre el teatre medieval de la península Ibèrica que es van presentar en el XI Colloquium de la Société Internationale pour l'Étude du Théâtre Médieval (Elx, 2004). s'hi s'examina el ric i complex panorama del teatre medieval peninsular des de diversos angles: des de la teatralitat folklòrica i l'espectacularitat cerimonial als textos dramàtics escrits en la frontera entre l'Edat Mitjana i el Renaixement; des del teatre de tema religiós al de tema profà. La pluralitat d'aproximacions metodològiques a aquesta matèria...

La autora recorre cien anos de escritos, desde el modernismo hasta lo que ocurrio despues del boom, y de escritores que contaron en sus ficciones la historia del subcontinente y, sin propone?erselo, definieron la identidad de Hispanoamerica.