Articles is Alba Longa’s principal internal crossroads. Studies are grouped into reading paths so that each article leads to a work, an author, a book or a theoretical question, and from there to further routes.
The historical novel in Spanish romanticism
Read the overview: history, European models and eight novels.
- Sancho Saldaña
- El doncel de don Enrique el Doliente
- El señor de Bembibre
- Los bandos de Castilla
- Ni rey ni Roque
- La conquista de Valencia por el Cid
- La heredera de Sangumí
- El golpe en vago
These studies are available in Spanish, French and English. The editions offered for purchase are in Spanish.
The Spanish picaresque novel
Don Juan Tenorio: three reading paths
The work: poetry, theatre and redemption · The author: José Zorrilla and the society of his time · The myth: from the stone guest to modern rewritings. Three studies available in Spanish, French and English, with sources and links to the annotated edition. The book offered for purchase is in Spanish.
New books
- The Citadel Between Notifications — Carlos Cantueso: Stoicism, attention, and everyday judgment.
- Fulcanelli el nombre bajo la ceniza — Bernardo de Worms: Spanish-language book and article.
Literary theory and narratology
- Definition, literariness, interpretation and reception
- Time, voice, focalisation and narrative construction
- The architecture of crime: narrative structure, clues and knowledge
Crime fiction, detection and conspiracy
- The Seven Dials Mystery: clocks, conspiracy and murder
- Complete crime-fiction dossier
- The Architecture of Crime: book page
Modern classics and narrative form
Hermetic thought and symbolic traditions
- The Kybalion: seven Hermetic principles and critical context
- The Fire in the Vessel: Hermeticism as inner transformation
Contemporary writing
- Alba Longa: fiction and narrative theory
- José Alemany Puig: memory, history and Crónicas de Sajará
- Philip Bates: fiction, theory and editions of classics
- Bernardo de Worms: history, Hermeticism and symbolism
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