Góngora's Soledades and the Problem of Modernity

"Este libro contiene 44 páginas con divertidas escenas y textos sencillos sobre los 22 períodos históricos que más interesan a los primeros lectore"--Back cover.

Excerpt from Obras Completas del Doctor D. Manuel Mila y Fontanals, Catedratico Que Fue de Literatura en la Universidad de Barcelona, Vol. 4: Opusculos Literarios Viaje por la Rusia meridional y la Crimea, etc., por el principe Demidoff, traducido por D. J uan Cortada. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing...

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.

"Jesus Torrecilla explores the question of how societies considered to be marginal perceive their relationship with those that are hegemonic. Focusing on the works of Mariano Jose de Larra, Benito Perez Galdos, and Miguel de Unamuno, he argues that the inner tension created between the foreign models and the writers' own literary tradition explains two of the most important characteristics of Spanish literature: its belatedness with respect to European trends and, more generally, its traditionalism, which, says Torrecilla, is a reaction not against modernity as such but against modernity as a ...