IMITACION Y TRANSFORMATION/ IMITATION AND

Aunque en Italia la imitación como ejercicio literario formaba ya parte integrante de la preceptiva poética, para los escritores castellanos del siglo XVI representaba una manera nueva de aproximarse tanto a los clásicos greco-latinos como a los italianos más recientes. La imitatio enlaza a España con la actualidad circundante, y el renacimiento literario que resulta de su práctica queda delineado no sólo por su contexto geopolítico sino por su dinámica interna. El Cinquecento italiano tiene su base en la excelencia literaria que habían logrado anteriormente Petrarca y Boccaccio en...

Durante el siglo XIX se producen tres grandes fenómenos históricos que cambian el signo de los tiempos: la consolidación de las recién independizadas naciones americanas, que redefine la noción de «hispánico», la aparición de las nuevas retóricas neo-Imperiales, donde los Estados Unidos tendrán un papel prioritario, y la incorporación de las mujeres al mundo intelectual y profesional, acompañada del empuje de los primeros feminismos. Desde el estudio de la literatura de viajes entre Estados Unidos, España y América Latina, pero también de gran cantidad de géneros misceláneos ...

Fray Luis de Len (1527-91) is known chiefly as the author of some of the finest poetry of the Spanish Golden Age, but he also wrote important prose works in both Latin and Spanish, and produced eloquent translations into Spanish of biblical and classical texts. He spent five years imprisoned in solitary confinement by the Spanish Inquisition, fighting to clear himself of a series of accusations against his views on the Bible. Acquitted on all counts, he returned to teach at the University of Salamanca. This book examines the controversies in which Fray Luis was caught up, and investigates the ...

An anthology of Spanish women writers from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century. Water Lilies brings to light a rich & until now, largely invisible version of Spanish literary history. These hard-to-find works, most translated for the first time, are printed on facing pages in Spanish & English & are located within a critical, biographical & historical overview.

Juana Borrero (1877 - 1896) - Modernist poet, born in Puentes Grandes, Havana, Cuba. She also excelled in painting. As a poet, she was considered a precocious girl. Her father, Esteban Borrero, was a short stories writer of and a poet; and her sister, Dulce Maria Borrero, excelled at poetry and prose. Therefore, Juana grew up in an artistic and literary atmosphere, amid literary circles and gatherings attended by other writers like Carlos Pio and Federico Uhrbach, as well as Julian del Casal. While still very young, Juana took painting classes, first with Dolores Desvernine, and later on, in...