El Abencerraje : una lección de virtud en los albores del confesionalismo filipino
Between 1561 and 1565 the three known versions of El Abencerrage —Cronica, Diana and Inventario — were printed. The moral lesson of these works, based on the principles of the humanism, is opposite to the process of confessionalization promoted by the Hispanic Monarchy in those dates. From the reconstruction of those three writing contexts —and knowing the courtesan faction to which the successive adapters of the work belonged: Jimenez de Embun’s servant, Jorge de Montemayor and Antonio de Villegas— this work attempts to prove, from the studies on the Spanish Court, how the first Spanish Moorish novel was, understood as an ideological discourse, a frontal attack against Philip the II’s confessionalism arised from the political opposition.
"Ozmín y Daraja" como contrafacción picaresca del ideal morisco
Although the story of Ozmin and Daraja integrates the canonical trinity of the so-called Moorish novel, its insertion as a story framed in a picaresque novel necessarily conditions its reading. Without being an exercise in generic hybridization, both its spirit and the configuration of the Moorish protagonist denote certain features that refer not only to the Moorish and Byzantine novels - well-known references - but to that same picaresque novel that serves as a narrative framework and is It also inspires in the theme of the Lazarillo. That is why we dare to suggest a kind of genetic contamination, at least on a moral level, of Ozmin: according to our proposal, Aleman would have configured his Moorish knight with one eye on the gallant Abindarraez and the other on Lazaro Gonzalez Perez, who likewise he was serving as a model to develop the character of Guzmanillo. This narrative experiment wants to be at the same time an expression of a certain positioning in front of the Moorish problem on the part of an author presumably a convert.
Byron: Augustan and Romantic
The impact of Byron's writings - an evaluative approach, William St Clair "My brain is feminine" - Byron and the poetry of deception, Jerome J. McGann Byron and the romantic heroine, Malcolm Kelsall Byron and the Empire in the East, Marilyn Butler Byron Augustan - mutations of mock-heroic in "Don Juan" and Shelley's "Peter Bell the Third", Claude Rawson continuities and discontinuities of language and voice in Dryden, Pope, and Byron, Bernard Beatty Augustan satires and Panegyrics on London and Byron's image of the city, Michael Gassermeier Byron, Pope, and the Grand Tour, Michael G. Cooke Byron in Italy - the return of Augustus, Donald H. Reiman "Don Juan" transformed, Anne Barton Byron's "Wrong Revolutionary System" and romanticism, Hermann Fischer the quintessential Byron, Leslie A. Marchand.