La narración artística como documento

La llegenda de la Dama Blava és el resultat d'una incongruència i d'una paradoxa. d'una incongruència perquè en la vida de la monja soriana Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda, confident de Felip IV i autora d'una de les obres teològiques més sorprenents del seu temps, no resultarien estranys els èxtasis místics a l'estil de santa Teresa, però sí que són sorprenents les més de 500 bilocacions que la van dur a predicar a Texas i a Nou Mèxic, que la van convertir en una missionera que mai no va eixir del convent. Al costat d'això, es produeix la paradoxa que una història que va ser...

This book offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date, multidisciplinary approach to the work of Galician jongleur Martin Codax and the Vindel Parchment. This medieval manuscript with the texts of seven cantigas de amigo by Martin Codax and the music score of six of them, is a philological gem that underwent numerous vicissitudes. The current volume comprises eighteen chapters dealing in depth with Codax's work and the Vindel Parchment from five basic perspectives: literature; linguistics, codicology and ecdotics; music; history and reception of the Vindel Parchment; and the historical...

Acclaimed authors write about the city of Barcelona, Spain, in a collection that features contributions by Paul Auster, Colm Toibin, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, and Juan Marsé, among others.

In this brilliant overview of parodic praxis in the Spanish-American novel during the years 1960-1985, Elzbieta SkPlodowska examines several aspects of parody: its role in the renovation of anachronistic forms of discourse (mock-epic) and the re-writing of the canon of the historical novel; its function in transgressing literary formulas (detective novel); its subversive quality in the counter-discourse of women writers; and the relation between parody, satire, irony, humor, and metafiction. This sound analysis of some twenty-five novels, carefully illustrated by works little treated in...