Blanco, de Octavio Paz, o la estética de la evanescencia

A critical edition of the original version of Calderón’s masterpiece, based on the text contained in the Zaragoza Parte (1636). Now republished for the first time since the seventeenth century, the "Zaragoza" version is preceded by a lengthy introductory study in which Ruano offers important evidence and new deductions convincingly to establish that Calderón wrote two versions of La vida es sueño (Life’s a Dream): a first version – the "Zaragoza" play, written probably before 1630 and primarily for performance – and a revised version (1635) for publication in the "Primera parte" of ...

This book collects for the first time a compendium of poems written in English by brigadists, sanitary personnel and journalists that participated or were involved in the Spanish Civil War, as well as by intellectuals, writers and journalists that supported the republican cause from the outside. The anthology starts from a previous historical framework in which this poetic legacy has been contextualized, to know where, when, how and why these poems were written, and who wrote them or who were their protagonists. All these analyses have served to understand the causes of why this poetic legacy ...

La argumentación forma parte de nuestra vida, de nuestra actividad lingüística. Necesitamos convencer a los otros de lo que pensamos o queremos, tanto en nuestro devenir cotidiano como en situaciones más ''formales'': en nuestro trabajo académico, en lo jurídico, en lo político, en la publicidad... Nos pasamos gran parte de nuestro tiempo ''argumentando''. En esta obra nos hemos acercado a los mecanismos lingüísticos para ello. Estos no solo nos muestran la interdependencia de la lengua con el entorno comunicativo y social (enfoque pragmático), sino que nos lleva a la conclusión de ...

Artesana de sí misma reevalua el lugar de Gabriela Mistral, premio Nobel de literatura, en la historia literaria e intelectual de America Latina. Cabello Hutt acerca a los lectores a la amplia, pero escasamente estudiada, prosa periodistica de Mistral ademas de un conjuncto de manuscritos, cartas e imagenes provenientes de archivas norteamericanos y chilenos así como del recientemente abierto archivo de su albacea y companera, Doris Dana. Artesana de sí misma explora mas alla de la ampliamente estudiada poesia de Mistral y demuestra que su prosa, representacion visual y performatividad de...