¿Por qué narrar? Cuentos contados y cuentos por contar

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.

Presenting the work of Miguel de Unamuno and Albert Camus as paradigmatic, the present study examines the significance and function of the -tragic- in a modern context, using a historical, socio-political approach. This approach permits the tragic to be seen as a product of specific historical circumstances, rather than as a fundamental, metaphysical aspect of the human condition, first revealed in Greek Tragedy and still evident today. In addition, a connection is made between Unamuno's and Camus's controversial political positions taken at the end of their lives and their insistence upon a...

Este volumen recoge diez propuestas de estudio presentadas en Palma de Mallorca con motivo de las jornadas celebradas durante los días 2, 3 y 4 de abril de 2012 sobre Écfrasis e imitación artística en la poesía hispánica contemporánea. Coordinados por Francisco Díaz de Castro y Almudena del Olmo Iturriarte, profesores ambos de la Universidad de las Islas Baleares, colaboran en él especialistas en poesía hispánica contemporánea –española, catalana y latinoamericana– tratando de afianzar la noción de interculturalidad relacionada con la interartisticidad. Tanto los...

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.