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Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, Mar�a Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832?95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. An aristocratic Californiana, she championed the rights of Mexican Americans in novels, plays, and letters. Her 1885 novel called attention to the illegal appropriation of Mexican land by the United States government, and she critiqued the political mores of America after the Civil War in light of the Mexican-American war. Her keen assessment of corporate capitalism at the end of the nineteenth...

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 ...

James Wood, uno de los grandes críticos literarios contemporáneos, revela su íntima relación con la palabra escrita en este luminoso ensayo. Leer Lo más parecido a la vida es asistir a una clase magistral impartida por James Wood, uno de los grandes críticos literarios americanos de nuestro tiempo. Para él, de entre todas las artes, la ficción tiene una capacidad única a la hora de describir la textura de nuestras vidas y rescatarla de la muerte y el olvido histórico. A partir de discusiones brillantes con grandes obras literarias como El beso de Chéjov, Los emigrados de Sebald y...

É lugar-comum pensar que a literatura clássica greco-romana é abundante em homoerotismo, e sabemos como a leitura dos clássicos influenciou pensadores e escritores dos séculos XIX e XX como Havelock Ellis, Oscar Wilde, J. A Symmonds, E. M. Forster, Edward Carpenter, Walt Whitman, Fernando Pessoa ou outros. Mas será mesmo assim? Carlos Miguel de Mora sugere os critérios pelos quais se poderá julgar o que seria uma sexualidade socialmente aceitável na Roma Antiga, permitindo, assim, compreender o que seria o homoerotismo: a "transgressão" à norma, do ponto de vista do pensamento...