Sombra de otra sombra

Durante el siglo XIX el alma romántica, en la cercanía del espíritu positivista, produjo nuevas formas de figurar el mundo, formas contradictorias pero plenas de hallazgos mecánicos y literarios. En esta obra la autora reflexiona sobre la maquinaria práctica y el andamiaje intelectual de los primeros ilusionistas y sus conexiones con un puñado de autores que transformaron la sensibilidad poética de la cultura occidental: Nerval, Balzac, Mallarmé y Rimbaud.

Un libro que permite distinguir el peso inequívoco del periodismo en el mundo contemporáneo, pero sobre todo deja ver que en el presente las investigaciones más relevantes en México son hechas por mujeres. "Elvira García tiene el don de la conversación... Convertido en reveladoras entrevistas, ese don le ha permitido labrar una carrera periodística singularizada por la perspicacia y la perseverancia, por el poder de penetrar en la esencia del interlocutor." Miguel Ángel Granados Chapa. Hay un hecho que se evidencia con claridad en la prensa contemporánea: las investigaciones más...

The first systematic study of the Aristotelian theory of anagnorisis in 16c Spanish drama. Anagnorisis - `recognition' or `discovery' - is a key element of Aristotelian literary theory. This book is the first systematic study of its presence in Spanish drama of the sixteenth century, a period in which Aristotelian theory was widely disseminated. Professor Garrido begins by examining the theory of anagnorisis developed by Aristotle and his sixteenth-century commentators. She then analyses its use in a large corpus of Spanish plays from the period1515-87. Her survey is divided into two parts,...

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...