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Poesía
Edhasa 1753; US$ 13.89La antología Flores de poetas ilustres (1605) fue el aldabonazo con el que un joven Pedro Espinosa encauzaba los nuevos aires de la poesía cultista de los Siglos de Oro. Pero, además, los poemas propios que incluyó en el volumen nos revelan a un poeta fino y renovador, atento a explorar las posibilidades de la poética culta con una intensidad similar... more...
Lope pintado por sí mismo
Boydell & Brewer 2006; US$ 90.00Un análisis de la obra poética de Lope de Vega revela cómo amoldó su propio personaje 'Lope' para adecuarse, generalmente con éxito, a los cambios de su entorno. more...
Rhetoric and Politics
University of Minnesota Press 1997; US$ 90.00Wide-ranging in focus, these essays demonstrate that the work of seventeenth-century Spanish Jesuit Baltasar Gracián offers insights into the deployment of rhetoric under the ?New World Order.? ?Rhetoric and Politics will do much to stimulate a renewed interest in Gracián and in the originality of Spanish culture.? David William Foster, Arizona State... more...
Woman, Your Hour Is Sounding
Palgrave Macmillan 2000; US$ 105.00French women of letters responded to the call to help their nation during the Great War, producing a large collection of war-centered writing including novels and short stories. While these authors were among the best-known, most critically-acclaimed, and prolific writers of their time, their names and works are largely forgotten now. Woman, Your... more...
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Liverpool University Press 2003; US$ 70.00This is a definitive critical edition of the holograph manuscript (1639) of Calderóns comedy. This volume traces the textual history of the play and lists variants from all known editions printed in or immediately after Calderóns lifetime; it also gives a brief account of editions printed up to the end of the eighteenth century.... more...
The Song of the Cid
Penguin Group Inc. 2009; US$ 15.00From a legendary translator: a magnificent new rendering of Spain's national epic Venture into the heart of Islamic Spain in this vibrant, rollicking new translation of The Song of the Cid , the only surviving epic from medieval Spain. Banished from the court of King Alfonso, the noble warrior Rodrigo Diaz, know as the Cid, sets out from Castile... more...
Selected Poetry of Francisco de Quevedo
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 36.00Francisco de Quevedo (1580–1645), one of the greatest poets of the Spanish Golden Age, was the master of the baroque style known as “conceptismo,” a complex form of expression fueled by elaborate conceits and constant wordplay as well as ethical and philosophical concerns. Although scattered translations of his works have appeared... more...
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 19.99The remarkable best-seller -- a long-lost, 300-year-old book of wisdom on how to live successfully yet responsibly in a society governed by self-interest -- as acute as Machiavelli yet as humanistic and scrupulously moral as Marcus Aurelius. From the Hardcover edition. more...
International Don Quixote
Editions Rodopi 2009; US$ 78.40Ever since its appearance, Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote has exerted a powerful influence on the artistic imagination all around the world. This cross-cultural volume offers important new readings of canonical reinterpretations of the Quixote : from Unamuno to Borges, from Ortega y Gasset to Calvino, from Mark Twain to Carlos Fuentes. But to... more...
El Quijote en América
Editions Rodopi 2010; US$ 85.80La novela Don Quijote forma parte de la herencia común de España y Latinoamérica más que cualquier otra obra española. Difícilmente se encontrará a un autor hispanoamericano que no haya dado su parecer sobre el Quijote, la novela o su creador, o qu more...









