¿Por qué narrar? Cuentos contados y cuentos por contar

Los autores pretenden mostrar la riqueza y variedad del pensamiento que conformó la época que va desde el Humanismo hasta el Barroco y enriqueció su expresión formal. Han querido ofrecer un panorama teórico apoyado siempre en lo textual, de modo que se pueda ver cómo y por qué la literatura acoge arte, pensamiento y nuevas formas de expresión.

Reúne este libro quince ensayos dedicados al humanismo reformista de Mateo Alemán, intelectual comprometido avant la lettre, y centrados en la «poética» subversiva del Guzmán de Alfarache. Desde diversos enfoques (textuales, contextuales, intertextuales), estos estudios reivindican el inconformismo y la modernidad, tanto ideológica como narrativa, de una ficción atalayista que a la trayectoria vital de una «persona ni buena ni mala» confiere la universalidad de la condición humana. La relectura de la Atalaya que se ofrece aquí obedece a una coherencia nueva: interpretar la...

This book collects for the first time a compendium of poems written in English by brigadists, sanitary personnel and journalists that participated or were involved in the Spanish Civil War, as well as by intellectuals, writers and journalists that supported the republican cause from the outside. The anthology starts from a previous historical framework in which this poetic legacy has been contextualized, to know where, when, how and why these poems were written, and who wrote them or who were their protagonists. All these analyses have served to understand the causes of why this poetic legacy ...

A romance between a priest and a nun-in-training leads to her pregnancy and his suicide. She is Gabriella Harrison, daughter of parents who abandoned her to a convent. The affair leads to her expulsion and she becomes a writer.