El "exilio del libro": una perspectiva desde la literatura erótica
The destiny suffered by Renaissance and Golden Age erotic works is an excellent example that shows the ways in which written thought has managed to survive the attempts directed at its destruction. The different forms of evasion in order to hide the delicate erotic contents can be compared to a form of exile, from where erotic literature has only recently come back. But the return from oblivion was a slow and not linear one. The attitude of society and investigation has been variable and has played a considerable role in the recovery of writings that had been sent away to exile ages ago by censorship.
Consideraciones acerca del erotismo:en la investigación y en la poesía del siglo XVI
The first part of this article takes a historic review on the investigation of eroticism in XVIth century cancionero-poetry from the beginning as a serious subject of investigation and summarize bibliographically the most important publications of literary criticism, dictionaries and anthologies dedicated to the erotic subject. The second part compares definitions of amor and erotismo and sketches the expanse of the erotic love subject. It wants to open the vision limited by social and moral concepts of the moment inorder to be able to understand better the poetry of other centuries.
"Minerva con el can" o los falsos problemas filológicos
Y es que, en efecto, la referencia a los presuntos amores bestiales de Minerva con un perro deja pasmado al mas ilustrado de los mitografos. De Minerva, que al parecer era virgen, no existe la menor referencia a esas inclinaciones sexuales. Se sugirio, desde fechas tempranas, que se trataba de una burla de Rojas para presentar la incultura de im criado como Sempronio. Sin embargo, Otis H. Oreen en un memorable articulo defendio la lectura de Minerva con Vulcan, que explicaria el error y justificaria la alusion mitologica . Aunque Minerva ha sido en general considerada un modelo de virginidad, hay un episodio en su historia que no queda claro en la tradicion mitologica. Se trata del nacimiento del rey ateniense Erictonio que segun unas fuentes nacio del semen que Vulcano, enamorado de su hermana Minerva, arrojo en tierra al pensar en ella; otras, que hacen suspecta su virginidad, se difundie-