UNA EXCURSIÓN A LOS INDIOS RANQUELES DE LUCIO V. MANSILLA

La presente obra propone mostrar qué se esconde tras el disfraz lingüístico del tabú, a través de un recorrido global e interdisciplinar de los procesos de interdicción lingüística (el eufemismo, el disfemismo y los procesos mixtos) en sus distintas vertientes (lingüística, pragmática y literaria) tomando como base el lenguaje literario inglés. De este modo, El eufemismo y el disfemismo intenta subsanar las limitaciones observadas en los trabajos precedentes relativos a la interdicción verbal, por lo general limitados al eufemismo como fenómeno léxico-semántico, y adopta una...

Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...

An unidentified sinner's soul is put into the body of a 14-year old boy who tried to commit suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. The twist is that in order to get the chance to be reincarnated in his next life, the sinner must find out and realize what sin he committed during his own life, which apparently has something to do with the young boy whose body he inhabits. As he lives the pitiful life of a miserable teenager who was good at art but was going through the "worst day of his life," the sinner struggles to find the connections between him and this boy while living the boy's...

Sueños, la obra más leída de Quevedo, es la que mejor representa las cualidades literarias de su autor, su prodigioso dominio del lenguaje puesto al servicio de una visión descarnada, escéptica y corrosiva de la sociedad española del siglo XVII, pero a pesar de su importancia no había sido editada de manera solvente. La presente edición contribuye a solucionar buena parte de los complejos problemas textuales que presentaba la obra, situándola en su contexto histórico-social y estableciendo abundantes conexiones con otras obras quevedescas. Las notas que la acompañan aclaran las...