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Space can best be defined not by looking at borders and territories but, rather, by focussing on movements of crossing and re-crossing. Today, the horizons of traditional Area Studies have to be opened up by innovative TransArea Studies which generate a new vision of entangled and connected histories and multi-, inter- and transcultural developments. The vectorization of all kinds of knowledge is on the agenda: the movements of the past are still present in the movements of today. Could there be a better field for this theoretical shift than the Caribbean, one of the outstanding producers of...

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. ...

Esta es una de las obras cumbre de Mircea Eliade, uno de los grandes estudiosos del tema religioso. Eliade usa una rica masa de documentos; examina símbolos, mitos, rituales mágicos; alía las investigaciones filológicas y arqueológicas al estudio de la estructura y el funcionamiento del pensamiento mítico, y así logra una fascinante síntesis de las manifestaciones de lo sagrado y lo profano.

In the past decades, with the decline of the Grand Narratives and the subsequent need for new historical and political orientation, literary studies have been reflecting on the role of literature in the world. Together with Jacques Rancière—and in dialogue with Althusser, Foucault, or Fischer-Lichte—the present volume analyzes this political turn of literary studies.