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Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic Romances and the Sea
2021
Biographical materials and the writer’s journals show that Ann Radcliffe had some personal knowledge of the sea and to some extent of sailing. She was also a lover of nature, an enthusiast of 17th -century landscapists, a connoisseur of Pre-Romantic poetry, who was also familiar with contemporary esthetic tastes and theories. In this context, the article analyzes seascapes, maritime and nautical references, motifs of storm and shipwreck in Radcliffe’s Gothic romances, including some poetical lines inspired by the sea with which The Mysteries of Udolpho is interspersed. The writer’s descriptions of the sea and her use of this element in her works are discussed in relation to her fictional ch…
Shining castles and humans of metal/floral appearance ? metaphorical language in the Palaiologan romances Kallimachos and Velthandros
2019
About eight centuries after Heliodorus, the Greek novel resurfaced in the twelfth century, in Komnenian Byzantium, and again two centuries later under the Palaiologan dynasty. This latter literary revival was due to the political stability of the imperial Byzantine government, which promoted cultural production, rhetorical education, and patronage networks. Kallimachos and Velthandros, two Palaiologan romances presented as court literature, combine ancient and medieval tropes with rhetorical artistry to blur the boundaries between the artificial and the natural. Castles and objects made of precious metals thus resemble living, natural spaces, and human characters are portrayed in metallurgi…
Dos apotegmas desconocidos sobre el caballero don Manuel Ponce de León en ¨El cortesano¨ (1561) de Luis Milán
2018
Los apotegmas incluidos en la Primera Jornada de El cortesano (1561) de Luis Milán sirven como base fundamental del presente trabajo. En concreto, la presencia del famoso caballero don Manuel Ponce de León en dos de ellos. El artículo resume la biografía his-tórica de don Manuel Ponce de León, la repercusión de su fama en la literatura de la época y analiza los dos apotegmas ?no asociados hasta el momento con su personalidad? en relación a las otras manifestaciones literarias que protagoniza.