Tragic Lucidity

La época actual exhibe una eclosión de géneros literarios compatible con la fragmentación postmodernista; época con deriva apocalíptica, donde el optimismo positivista es suplantado por la sospecha sobre las limitaciones de nuestros modelos políticos e ideológicos. Sátira y géneros menores: apuntes sobre literatura latinoamericana contemporánea analiza las temáticas y estilos de estas tendencias, así como su hibridación genérica en busca de representatividad. El policiaco, la narconovela, la neopicaresca, la ciencia ficción son modelos reinventados por escritores con un fin...

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...

An elucidation in Spanish of the dramatic intentions and accomplishments of the two best imitators of the inspired craftsmanship of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, this is the first monograph to be published on Rojas Zorilla and Moreto for at least two decades. Following an introductory section, in which she discusses and compares the differing attitudes and methods of the two dramatists, the author concentrates on their respective achievements in the genres which they practiced with enthusiasm and ability. Among the comedies and serious secular plays selected for analysis are not only their...

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.