Un pedazo de historia de amor

This first critical, variorum edition of El pastor de Flida by Luis Glvez de Montalvo (Madrid, 1582) and edited by Professor Julin Arribas Rebollo of Ohio Wesleyan University, resolves all prior textual problems and offers a definitive text upon which critics and scholars may base their studies. The exhaustive critical apparatus and abundant footnotes facilitate the interpretation of this pastoral romance, one of the pastoral genre's most important contributions to the development of 16th-century Spanish narrative. The importance of El pastor de Flida was recognized long ago. Cervantes pays...

Ensayo historiográfico bajo el título: La tradición marxista y la encrucijada postmoderna: notas para una historia social y cultural en el siglo XXI. Se trata de una reflexión sobre las posibilidades de la historiografía marxista dentro del nuevo contexto cultural postmoderno, siguiendo la propuesta de Fredric Jameson y otros autores. El autor presenta, de este modo, un debate en el que se abordan las posibilidades de esta tradición historiográfica después del denominado "fin de la historia" y los cambios en la historiografía fruto del denominado "giro cultural" hasta la actualidad....

Kafka's The Trial has been read as a study of political power, a pessimistic religious parable, or a crime novel where the accused man is himself the problem. In it, a man wakes up to find himself under arrest for an offence which is never explained. Faced with this ambiguous but threatening situation, Josef K. gradually succumbs to its psychological pressure.

Including Homage to Catalonia 'Spain not only defined Orwell as an individual, it also gave him his first glimpse of totalitarianism' D. J. Taylor, Guardian George Orwell's experience of the Spanish Civil War had a transformative effect on his life and work. This volume brings together his complete writings on the war, including Homage to Catalonia, his searing memoir of fighting in the conflict and the bitter betrayal that followed. The powerful journalism, essays, letters and pamphlets also collected here show his resolution to tell the truth about what happened amid a 'crop of lies' from...