With The Life of Reason George Santayana earned his reputation as philosopher; this is due to its length but also because it is his most detailed moral work. The fourth volume of the work, entitled Reason in Art, analyzes both…

The classical myth is one of the most important artistic expressions in our cultural and literary tradition. However, the fact that the teaching of this subject is associated to a specific area of courses considered optional implies that many of…

The technological advances of the last decades have caused an increase in the electronic transfer of information (e-mail, videoconference, short message service, mobile telephony, the blogosphere and such supposedly socially minded web sites as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) but it…

Leopoldo María Panero’s poetry is set as a constant claiming of transgression in every order, from Moral to Epistemological. In the following lines we will study one particular transgression. We are speaking about heresy, as an image of the subversion…

This article deals with the specific use that has been made of rhetoric by literary theory during the 1960s, a period that has been called “poststructuralist”. Our intention is to do a sighting of how the rhetorical knowledge has been…

Time, memory and forgetfulness are recurring motifs in the work of the poets of the generation of the 50’s or generación del medio siglo. This article focuses on José Manuel Caballero Bonald’s personal revision of the concept of time, one…