Arthur Miller: visiones desde el nuevo milenio

This book explores the most recent critical and theoretical approaches in the field of Chicano studies from an interdisciplinary perspective. The contributions go back to the 4th International Conference on Chicano Literature which took place in Sevilla in May 2004. They deal with a wide variety of topics and approach the subject from diverse viewpoints. Some examine specific literary texts by major Chicano authors from feminist, comparative and close-reading approaches, others discuss ideological and cultural issues like folklore, ethnicity, identity, sexuality or stereotypes, while yet...

En el siglo XVIII Ana María Castellanos es condenada por incitar a la fuga a los soldados del Fuerte del Carmen; durante tres días con sus noches arden , a lo largo de la pampa patagónica, hogueras para honrar a María la Grande, cacique de guerreros Tehuelches; Gertrudis Sánchez, esposa del gobernador de Malvinas, protagoniza un dramático episodio al tiempo que los ingleses se apoderan de las islas; una cuatrera, Elena Greenhill, conocida como "la inglesa", se transforma en una leyenda por secuestrar a un comisario; poco después del desembarco de los galeses en Chubut una mujer...

Nothing can save Alex's life- that's what all the doctors say, but his mother knows it's not true. She knows that the Lost Spells of the Egyptian Book of the Dead can crack open a door to the afterlife, pulling her son back from the brink. When she uses the spells, five evil ancients -the Death Walkers- are also brought back to life, releasing an ancient evil.

The first systematic study of the Aristotelian theory of anagnorisis in 16c Spanish drama. Anagnorisis - `recognition' or `discovery' - is a key element of Aristotelian literary theory. This book is the first systematic study of its presence in Spanish drama of the sixteenth century, a period in which Aristotelian theory was widely disseminated. Professor Garrido begins by examining the theory of anagnorisis developed by Aristotle and his sixteenth-century commentators. She then analyses its use in a large corpus of Spanish plays from the period1515-87. Her survey is divided into two parts,...

La poesía mistraliana es de gran esencialidad y de una inmensa fuerza interior, las cuales se funden para forjar poemas de contorno nítido, de cara y de cuerpo dimantinos. En ellos nada sobra, nada falta: lo pleno vivifica un decir casi siempre infalible. Lo que nos legó, compuesto en lo fundamental de Desolación, Tala, Lagar y Poema de Chile, revela una poesía novísima y arcaica, de vocación endógena, con un elan ascensional de veras soberano.