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This paper studies in detail the textual relation between two comedies: Tirso de Molina's Amar por señas and Calderón de la Barca's El encanto sin encanto. The main conclusion is that there is no re-writing process as has been argued in general by literary criticism and literary history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper offers an approach to a unique representation of Cuba in the poetry of Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda. Specifically, it takes two poems as fundamental referents marking two essential moments in Avellaneda´s life. The first, 'Al partir', is a sonnet of 1836, when Avellaneda left Cuba for Spain. The second, 'A un cocuyo', is one of the poems that Avellaneda writes in Cuba upon her return to the island in 1859, after a twenty-three-year absence. This analysis explores the construction of Cuba in the poetry of Avellaneda, particularly the presence of Cuban 'spirits' in these two poems, and their relationship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the evolution of Spanish women from the last two decades of the nineteenth century until the 1980s as presented in La enredadera (1984) by Josefina R. Aldecoa, with a focus on the diachrony of socio-cultural discourses and the analysis of the female protagonists' emotions. Far from the traditional association of emotion with weakness and irrationality, and following theorists such as Arlie Russell Hochschild, June Crawford, Michel Foucault and Anthony Giddens, emotions are regarded here as systems of representation: they have a capacity for agency, can be modified depending on the individual's recognition of her inner experience, and influence how we understand the world and who we are. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]