Antologia De La Literatura Espanola: Siglos Xviii Y Xix Antologia de la Literatura Espanola: Siglos XVIII y XIX challenges traditional concepts of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Spanish literature by providing exciting new material never before available in modern editions. It includes examples of popular dramatic genres, such as the sainete and the zarzuela usually excluded from anthologies, and recognizes the…
Las Hortensias Y Otros Cuentos Acclaimed by the initiated, Felisberto Hernandez has long been considered -a writers writer, more admired by his colleagues than known by the public at large- (Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Yale University). As with his predecessors in the -genre of the strange- Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Nikolai Gogol, Edgar Allan Poe and…
La Novela De Quiosco In spite of the huge editorial success of popular short novel collections in Spain during the first thirty years of the 20th century, this specific and prolific genre has been understudied and silenced by tradicional literary criticism. My thesis aims to redress this deficiency by analysing one of the most…
Early Modern Spain Spain as a political entity can be traced to the joining of the two largest Iberian kingdoms through the marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile in 1469. Over the course of the next centuries, Spain rose to European dominance, presided over the worlds largest empire, and saw…
