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The verse 22 of the prologue of Captivi contains a consideration about the destiny of the mankind: enim vero di nos quasi pilas homines habent. The image of the gods playing with a ball was used both by the Greek and by the Latin world in... more
This article aims at revealing the social, cultural, and political lives of the English people in the Medieval England in Geoffrey Chaucer's "Prologue to Canterbury Tales". Chaucer who is also known as the father of English poetry... more
El Renacimiento español concibe la retórica como un lazo abarcador de todas las artes y las ciencias, una verdadera regina artium. De acuerdo con esta idea, los autores científicos de aquel entonces usan conscientemente la retórica para... more
RESUMEN Este artículo analiza el Prólogo del Evangelio de Juan en relación con los estudios más recientes, como base para la interpretación de todo el Evangelio. ABSTRACT «The Christology of the Prologue to the Gospel of John according... more
Estudio del prólogo del Quijote de 1605 bajo el prisma de los conceptos de "autoridad" y "autoría"
This article examines the temporal structure of L’Orfeo’s prologue. An analysis of the distribution of semibreves per line of text reveals a palindrome, which reinforces long-held perceptions of symmetry in the opera. Adopting the form of... more
What happens external to what is written in Macbeth and how do the events of the past effect the characters? Much is left unanswered in Macbeth's plot as the play starts with characters who already poses evil characteristics but there are... more
In this article the author insists on the importance of the prologues in Spanish literature, specially in some picaresque novels. La pícara Justina is a good example of this. The article analyses the differences between La pícara... more
The turning point of the fourteenth to the fifteenth century saw the emergence of auctorial voices that were more and more involved, subjective and conscious of their talent. This paper attempts to demonstrate how the notion of ethos,... more
Taking Iphigenia Taurica as a case in point, this article will investigate the narrative artificiality of Euripides' prologues. By creating prologic pieces which defied the dramatic festivals' conventions, the Greek playwright distanced... more
The concept of ‘genre’ is an integral part of the everyday life of most scholars. It is present in reading, writing and conversation, or any other mode of communication and exchange. In the humanities, we study genre in different media... more
RESUMEN Las relaciones de Alfonso de Cartagena con la cultura portuguesa de comienzos del siglo XV no muestran una sola dirección, la que parte de éste y llega a los miembros de la casa real y a los intelectuales portugueses, sino también... more
Prólogo escrito para el libro de poemas "Al Desnudo", de Fermina Ponce.
Presentado en la Feria Internacional del Libro de Bogotá, mayo 2016.
Publicado por Editorial Oveja Negra.
Bogotá, Colombia.
Presentado en la Feria Internacional del Libro de Bogotá, mayo 2016.
Publicado por Editorial Oveja Negra.
Bogotá, Colombia.
[English abstract below] La critique littéraire reconnaît que le texte est un support imparfait pour le théâtre. Il est d’autant plus imparfait pour le théâtre de l’Ancien Régime, dont la pratique est largement oubliée. Nous sommes... more
The concept of ‘genre’ is an integral part of the everyday life of most scholars. It is present in reading, writing and conversation, or any other mode of communication and exchange. In the humanities, we study genre in different media... more
Couldn’t you say I come from the Moon & wish to remain a mystery? —Letter to Lance Bowling, November 3, 1976 Sometimes serendipity leads us to our life’s work. In the case of our study of Madeleine Dring (1923–77), it... more
Resumen: En este artículo se insiste en la importancia que los prólogos han tenido en la historia de la literatura española, especialmente en ciertas obras del género picaresco, y en concreto en La pícara Justina. Una vez analizadas las... more
This article aims to show the presence of epic elements in Castilian chivalric romans. As an example, it is analysed the prologue to the Fourth Part of Florisel de Niquea (1551) written by Feliciano de Silva. This work proposes Carlos V... more
RESUMEN Las relaciones de Alfonso de Cartagena con la cultura portuguesa de comienzos del siglo XV no muestran una sola dirección, la que parte de éste y llega a los miembros de la casa real y a los intelectuales portugueses, sino también... more
In Apul. Met. 1, 1, 5 exotici ac forensi<s> sermonis the word forensis means ‘foreign’ and not ‘belonging to the forum’. The former is required by the context: two coordinate adjectives linked with ac should convey a sense of similarity.... more
"The Ecbasis cuiusdam captivi per tropologiam is a Latin poem of 1229 mostly leonine hexameters which was composed toward the middle of the eleventh century, probably by a monk attached to the monastery of Saint-Èvre in Toul. It survives... more