Alberti, Asturias, Guillén, Neruda, Menédez Pidal, Saramago

Si bien ambas surgen del mismo río que es la narrativa, la historia y la literatura parecen habitar riberas opuestas. O bien, habitan el mismo cuarto, pero ocupan camas separadas. Para examinar si existe una frontera real entre ambas disciplinas, Jean Meyer, Antonio Saborit, Ignacio Sánchez Prado, Luis Barrón, Susana Quintanilla, Alejandro Araujo, José Mariano Leyva, Sarah Pollack, Oswaldo Zavala y el propio David Miklos se concentran en la hechura del presente literario mexicano y su historia inmediata, tendida o trenzada en los hilos tanto de la ficción como de la realidad, las obras...

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...

El Caballero de Olmedo is a history play, a retelling of a folk tale, a celebrated piece of Golden Age drama, and also an intense mediation upon the power of desire, the deceits of eroticism and literary convention, the injustice of a world obsessed with appearance, and the tragic potential inherent in the courting of beautiful women. The introduction sets this play within the context of Baroque eroticism and sexual mores as well as dramatic practice. The text is presented with glosses to words unfamiliar to undergraduate students; the notes comprise summaries of acts and scenes from a...

Gabriel va hacia el colegio cuando se da cuenta de que ha perdido su peonza favorita. Analisa, la alumna más misteriosa del colegio, le dice que vaya a casa del mago de las cosas perdidas. Le asegura que allí la encontrará. Todo va bien, hasta que un día Analisa desaparece.