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...

Antes de morir, Tristan le prometió a Ivy que la protegería y que la querría para siempre. El amor verdadero nunca muere. Ivy es nueva en el instituto de Stonehill, una localidad cercana a Nueva York a la que acaba de mudarse con su hermano y su madre. Es una chica responsable, tímida, buena estudiante y un poco solitaria que siempre ha creído en los ángeles, que considera sus mejores y más fieles aliados. Pronto hace un pequeño círculo de amigas que la ayudan a integrarse a su nueva vida y al instituto. Tristan es el capitán del equipo de natación. Es un chico inteligente,...

This volume of collected essays explores the premise that Plutarch's work, notwithstanding its amazing thematic multifariousness, constantly pivots on certain ideological pillars which secure its unity and coherence. So, unlike other similar books which, more or less, concentrate on either the Lives or the Moralia or on some particular aspect(s) of Plutarch's oeuvre, the articles of the present volume observe Plutarch at work in both Lives and Moralia, thus bringing forward and illustrating the inner unity of his varied literary production. The subject-matter of the volume is uncommonly...

Antonio Perez, the brilliant but erratic secretary to Philip II of Spain, became in the years of his exile a political agent in the service of the Earl of Essex, arriving at the Court of Queen Elizabeth in 1593. On behalf of Essex, who valued him as a friend, a partner and a humanist scholar, he cast an intelligence network over Italy; and he made a striking, though dangerous, contribution to the Essex cult.