Breve historia de los libros prohibidos

William Godwin (1756-1836), padre de Mary Shelley, escribió abundantes ensayos sobre política, donde fue exponiendo su pensamiento de carácter anarquista -además de participar activamente en movimientos radicales de la época-, como su célebre Investigación sobre la Justicia Política. Caleb Williams surgió precisamente del estado mental en que le sumió la redacción de este ensayo. Las «aventuras» de Caleb Williams es una oscura y envolvente novela sobre la culpabilidad, la curiosidad malsana, el acoso y la persecución obsesiva. La primera parte describe la decadencia del noble...

An intriguing study of The Da Vinci Code looks at the content, themes, real-life historical background and characters, and revelations of the best-selling novel.

Benito Perez Galdos sought a new narrative structure which would revitalize the literary models prevalent in 19th-century Spain. He found such a structure in the creation of a dialogue between normally incompatible texts — between old and new, national and foreign, high culture and low. From the confrontation of these incongruous texts a narrative is born which, through the destruction of textual hierarchies, creates an ambiguous and often duplicitous texture of storytelling. Five paradigms, based upon five Novelas Contemporaneas, are used to exemplify the dialogical structure of the new...

This study explores the interaction of language, culture and identity in contemporary Catalonia and rejects the exclusion of Castilian as a language capable of expressing 'Catalan-ness'. This study, charting the construction of a Catalan identity from the nineteenth-century cultural renaissance until the present day, explores the interaction of language, culture and identity in contemporary Catalonia. Drawing on postcolonial and multicultural literary theories, it argues that Castilian- and Catalan-language narratives are expressions of the same culture. Through detailed analyses of texts by...