Release date is 2022-08-18

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"Cabos sueltos: Literatura y lingüística" by Julio Cejador y Frauca is a scholarly work written in the early 20th century. The book widely explores topics related to linguistics and philology, particularly the Spanish language, through a series of essays that aim to bridge modern linguistic science and traditional literary exploration. Cejador y Frauca dedicates his analysis to both the evolution of the Spanish language and the inherent qualities of its literature. At the start of this work, the author introduces his aim to illuminate the concepts of linguistics and philology, which he views as somewhat misunderstood and conflated in the Spanish context. He emphasizes that linguistics has been underappreciated, and expresses a desire to rectify this by contrasting it with the reliance on Latin and classical influences in Spanish literature. The opening establishes a critical tone toward contemporary linguistic studies in Spain, citing a lack of proper exploration and understanding of the subject, and sets the stage for a discussion that will dissect various elements of the Spanish language and its literary traditions in the forthcoming chapters. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Originally published: Spain: Perlado y Paéz sucesores de Hernando, 1907