Biblioteca Americana

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...

This book analyzes the theoretical aspects of specific humoristic techniques in Gabriel Garcia Marquez. These techniques employ ranges from the use of explicit jokes, hyperbole or textual and cultural carnival, and literary resources such as irony, parody and ambiguity.

This book offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date, multidisciplinary approach to the work of Galician jongleur Martin Codax and the Vindel Parchment. This medieval manuscript with the texts of seven cantigas de amigo by Martin Codax and the music score of six of them, is a philological gem that underwent numerous vicissitudes. The current volume comprises eighteen chapters dealing in depth with Codax's work and the Vindel Parchment from five basic perspectives: literature; linguistics, codicology and ecdotics; music; history and reception of the Vindel Parchment; and the historical...

Excerpt from Estudios Literarios, Vol. 2: Vida del Trovador Juan Rodriguez del Padron; D. Alonso de Cartagena; El Centon Epistolario; Juan de Valdes y el Dialogo de la Lengua; Fr. Pedro Malon de Chaide Alguna mayor dificultad ofrece el fin y aca 'bamient tan divers que dan a nuestr trva dor las memorias comunes y la manuscrita pues aunque pudiera decirse que, al despedir se de su dama y al desterrarse de Espana, se esparcio la voz y se creyo cmunmente que - iba a Jerusalen a hacerse fraile, siendo asi que se iba a pasar su enamrada vida a la entn ces disipada crte de Francia, de buena fe...