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  • The Comedia Between Worlds: Critical Intersections in Early Modern Theatre

    La comedia entre mundos: Intersecciones críticas en el teatro de la temprana modernidad

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    Perhaps today more than ever, with the much-needed rise of postcolonial studies and an urgent look towards the multicultural, the intersectional and the interdisciplinary, it is difficult for many scholars to consider comedy as a vital and constantly regenerating genre within studies. . current Hispanics. However, if we do not do so, we run the risk of relegating to the background a unique dramatic tradition of singular richness that left a permanent mark on the society of the time on an artistic and sociocultural level. Indeed, Spain in the 17th century drank from the stage both in its...

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  • Pereda painted by himself (1851-1906). An epistolary. Volume II

    Pereda painted by himself (1851-1906). An epistolary. Volume II

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    The epistolary consists of three volumes. The first contains the introduction, written by Salvador García Castañeda (590 pages), and the chronological and onomastic indexes.

    These three volumes constitute a magnum opus that reveals unknown facets of the writer José María de Pereda (1833-1906). The work is the fruit of a lifetime of research dedication to the figure of the Polanco writer by the professor of Literature at the Ohio State University, Salvador García Castañeda, 2022 Ciudad de Santander Literature Prize winner and member of the Board of the Menéndez Pelayo Society.

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  • El teatro griego. La tragedia. Antología de Antígona, Edipo rey y Medea.

    El teatro griego. La tragedia. Antología de Antígona, Edipo rey y Medea.

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    It is not easy to compress in a few words the essence of the conflicts of Oedipus, Antigone or Medea: the tremendous and ineluctable destiny from which the Theban king cannot escape and the tearing of his pain in the face of the truth that he ignored; the overwhelming brilliance of his daughter, Antigone, in challenging immoral laws that do not respect the most sacred, the burial of our dead; the fire that consumes Medea in the face of the betrayal and disloyalty of those who meanly break a pact. Of its transcendence, of the value that men have given over the centuries to the words of...

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