El Amete de Toledo presents the story of a strong and faithful Muslim who is separated from his true love, removed from his homeland, and enslaved. His extremes of love and hate drive him to commit acts of great violence during his journey to spiritual conversion and death. This…
This study includes four sections: (1) an introduction to the literary, historical, and autobiographical aspects of Lope de Vega's narrative poem La hermosura de Angélica, written between 1588 and 1602, when it was published for the first time; (2) an edition of the text based o…
This project explores the correlation between Lope's historical theater and the early stage of the formation of Spanish national consciousness at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Drawing on recent theories of nationalism, I examine the political, cultural and historical…
The Old Testament story of Joseph is common to the Christians, Muslims, and Jews of medieval Spain, and each group drew upon its own and other exegetical traditions to produce literary versions of the biblical tale. After the expulsion of the latter two groups, several Hispanic …
The present study argues that the Iberian weave of Andalusi convivencia, which for centuries was characterized by a multicultural cohabitation (hardly harmonious and peaceful, and yet focusing on the border as a line of contiguity and not exclusion), continued to be imbedded in …
Un 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.
Un 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.
This dissertation argues that Lope de Vega (1562-1635) used self-fashioning in order to attract royal, aristocratic, and municipal patrons in the newly emerging court of Philip III and his favorite, the Duke of Lerma. In order to retrace the author's efforts to create a unique p…
Renueva el enfoque filológico acometiendo una rigurosa investigación semántica, pragmática, estilística, textual, semiológica y retórica, centrada en el cambio semántico y la competencia gramatical.
