The Unity of Plutarch's Work

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.

Las Elegías de Duino señalan el momento de más alta creatividad poética de la obra de Rainer Maria Rilke (Praga, 1875-Valmont, 1926), uno de los poetas mayores en lengua alemana de la Europa moderna. La intensidad lírica de esta poesía, así como el misterioso mundo interior que habita en ella, han sido objeto de atención y estudio por parte de algunos de los más destacados filósofos y escritores de nuestro tiempo, como Martin Heidegger, Maurice Blanchot, Romano Guardini, Hans-Georg Gadamer o George Steiner. Este libro reúne dos ensayos que dialogan acerca de la poesía de Rilke,...

Children will love to cuddle this unique book in the shape of the teddy bear while they read the story of the little bear and his friends. Un libro de tela con un formato original en forma de mu�eco hecho de lana para que los m�s peque�os puedan abrazarlo mientras les leen la historia de este peque�o oso y sus amigos. �Un libro que se hace querer!

This volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial...