El Caribe universal

Antonio Benítez Rojo es uno de los escritores más reconocidos del exilio cubano. Este estudio busca llenar un vacío crítico entorno a su obra con un análisis que incluye su famosa trilogía El mar de las lentejas (1978), La Isla que se repite (1990), Paso de los vientos (1998) y su última novela histórica Mujer en traje de batalla (2001). Se centra en el desarrollo de Benítez Rojo como escritor y pensador de América Latina relacionando su labor intelectual con la realidad socio política que ha vivido. El estudio va acompañado por dos entrevistas inéditas realizadas en dos momentos ...

The characters of The Walking Dead live in a desolate post-apocalyptic world, filled with relentless violence and death. In reality, how would such never-ending stress and trauma affect the psyche? By understanding the psychological forces that drive the series' action, viewers can better appreciate it.

Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this comparative study of a selection of The Arabian Nights stories in a cross-cultural context, brings together a number of disciplines and subject areas to examine the workings of narrative. It predominantly focuses on the ways in which the Arabian Nights have transformed as its stories have travelled across historical eras, cultures, genres and media. Departing from the familiar approaches of influence and textual studies, this book locates its central inquiry in the theoretical questions surrounding the workings of ideology, genre and genre ideology ...

This is an essay in which rust and idleness become the first reason and the last sense of life. The new work by Fanadelli tries to answer the questions that obsess its author: Why do we live in such an absolutely hopeless time? How do men squashed by modernity and the archetypal structures of culture can coexist and relate to each other? How do the different paths identify among themselves, how can those of us who surrender the loads that others support identify ourselves and face the world? Ensayo en el que la herrumbre y la vagancia se vuelven el primer motivo y el ltimo sentido de la vida. ...

Muñoz Pérez revela la importancia de las mujeres en la política y cultura de la corte española en tiempos de Olivares. Muñoz Pérez examines the importance of women in political and cultural life at the Spanish court through the case of Teresa Valle, spiritual counsellor of Olivares.