This study seeks to revise the meanings of two traditional motifs which experience revealing developments in the Spanish lyric. Since Aristotle and the natural treatises of antiquity through the medieval zoological ...

This article explores the similarities between the literary production of Juan Rulfo and James Joyce as regards their special treatment of the themes of life and death. Although this treatment constitutes a major concern ...

In recent years numerous fictional devices have been identified in Greek and Latin historiography. Quintus Curtius has traditionally been considered the most novelistic of Latin historians and the first, more general ...

This paper surveys the tradition of the "all-powerful money" theme in Quevedo. Several possible precedents from Horatius, Ovidius and Paulus Silentiarius are detailed in relation to Quevedo's "poderoso caballero es Don ...

This paper seeks to demonstrate not only the connections between Cervantes and Sterne, on the one hand, and between Sterne and Diderot, on the other, but also those linking Cervantes and Diderot, which have hitherto ...