Miguel de Cervantes y el humanismo europeo

Eamonn Wall arrived in the United States in the 1980s as part of a wave of young, educated immigrants who became known as the "New Irish." In this book he comments on his own experiences and those of his generation, who identify as much with contemporary ethnic and immigrant America as they do with the long-settled Irish American community. Wall's starting point is the now-closed Sin-é Café in New York's East Village, which was a hangout in the early 1990s for expatriate Irish musicians, actors, and writers. He comments on the poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs of both the New Irish and...

Este libro reúne una serie de ensayos sobre la tradición literaria y política en Inglaterra y los Estados Unidos, de Shakespeare a George Santayana. En las 'Retractaciones' con las que el libro comienza se explica el procedimiento seguido, que se basa en la idea expuesta por San Agustín al volver a leer al final de su vida sus escritos: 'Hoc in me egerunt cum scriberentur, et agunt cum legentur'. Este procedimiento es útil desde el punto de vista de la coherencia literaria y desde el punto de vista autobiográfico; a este respecto permitiría a cualquier autor trazar las líneas de su...

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 ...

Elsaco de Roma es el suceso que da sustancia al Diálogo de Lactancio y un arcidiano, un acontecimiento terrible desde el punto de vista humano, y una convulsión extraordinaria para la Europa de 1530 en los terrenos político, religioso y cultural. Se analiza el trasfondo de los hechos y su recreación literaria en el texto valdesiano, considerado no sólo como versión oficial de los hechos sino como programa político y religioso. Asimismo, se estudia este texto como ficción literaria en todos sus aspectos centrales: piezas preliminares, deuda con la literatura de pasquines y la...