Las formas y las no-formas discursivas

This edited volume explores the ways in which Miguel de Cervantes adopted humanist positions, whether he submitted these to critical examination or made them the target of his satires. It tries to determine how familiar Cervantes was with the contemporary developments of humanism in different European countries, and if references to particular humanist thinkers can be identified in his work. The contributions gathered in this volume, all from acknowledged Cervantes experts, tackle among others the following questions: How does Cervantes analyse the humanist connexion between science and...

La poeta Safo, a quien los comediógrafos áticos del siglo IV a.C. acusaron de inmoral y perversa, que fue utilizada como bandera por los libertinos del siglo XVIII y a la que las lesbianas de la «Belle époque» convirtieron en su patrona, nació hacia el año 612 a.C. en Eresos, una pequeña ciudad de la isla de Lesbos, en la Eólida, en el seno de una familia de origen aristocrático, y mantuvo una profunda relación personal con el otro gran poeta de su tiempo, su compatriota Alceo. En la novela de Krislov es la propia Safo quien narra con detenimiento su infancia y adolescencia, sus...

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C sar Vallejo is one of the finest poets of Latin America, and his poetry has managed to maintain a broad readership base right up until the modern day. Since Vallejo's posthumous poems were first published in 1939 in an edition supervised by his widow, Georgette de Vallejo, there remain to this day a number of unanswered questions about them. In what order did Vallejo write the poems? Would he have published the poems as they are? This book, by a careful analysis of the evidence available, proposes a new chronology for the posthumous poems, suggesting that the Peruvian poet's work went...