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Mestizaje y criollismo en la literatura de la Nueva España del siglo XVI es un estudio de los cambios en el idioma y la literatura castellana y náhuatl a causa del proceso de expansión hispánica en el Anáhuac. Según el autor, los cambios en el hombre de esa época conllevan implícitamente a cambios no sólo de pensamiento, sino otros provocados por la transculturación (consecuencia directa del contacto con pueblos de otras lenguas). Para estudiar este proceso se basó especialmente en autores novohispanos por medio de un análisis y comparación de textos de los pueblos originarios de ...

This volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial...

Reviewers have celebrated this important volume as the first comprehensive critical appraisal of the 1997 Nobel Prize laureate for literature. The volume features an introduction, an extensive annotated bibliography, an index, and Aleixandre's Nobel Prize acceptance lecture.

A study of the relationship betwen court festivity and theatre in 16c Spain. Dr Ferrer Valls studies the relationship between court festivity and theatre in the sixteenth century, placing special emphasis on staging. She argues that throughout the reign of Philip II court spectacle perpetuates the complicated staging of traditional performances, but with greater emphasis on their dramatic aspects and on the use of music and song. In the first two decades of the seventeenth century, and above all in specific plays by Lope de Vega, court spectacles come to reflect also the influence of Italian...