La figura femenina en el teatro de Edward Bond: las mujeres perdidas

Tal y como se planteó en el anterior volumen titulado, La figura femenina en el teatro de Edward Bond: las mujeres perdidas, Bond propone una mujer radicalmente diferente en la segunda etapa de su producción dramática. En obras como The Woman, Summer o Restoration, las mujeres se convierten en heroínas desde el momento en que asumen todas las responsabilidades políticas y sociales intentando cambiar las injusticias de la sociedad. En esta segunda categorización de personajes distinguimos entre mujeres revolucionarias que cambian el curso de la historia, mujeres rebeldes que inician su...

Beyond the Family Romance explores parallels between Pascoli's work and such writers as Tarchetti, Boito, Poe, and Invernizio.

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 ...

La miscelánea que compone la obra trata de la vida interior de un pueblo tan apasionante y a la vez tan desconocido para Occidente como el japonés.El autor desde su punto de vista occidental desentraña elcorazón mágico de Oriente en historias encadenadas

Annotation Between 1605 and 1621, Quevedo wrote a sequence of five "Dreams" or "Visions" "(Suenos y discursos), in each of which he hilariously envisions Spanish society as populated by people rightfully condemned to Hell. These astonishingly witty and irreverent satires of contemporary Spanish culture, morality, prejudice and religious fanaticism, were composed in a style as allusive, elliptical and equivocal as to successfully entertain both those who barely understood their full range and import, and others who celebrated the poet's rebellious insinuations. Censorship prohibited the...