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Saturnalia, diálogo entre romanos eminentes y eruditos, constituye una verdadera compilación enciclopédica del saber antiguo que hizo de puente entre el pensamiento pagano y el medieval cristiano. Con ocasión de las fiestas de las Saturnales del año 384 d.C., mientras Roma se divierte en las calles, ajena al final de una época, doce senadores y eruditos romanos deciden pasar los tres días de jolgorio celebrando tres banquetes literarios en las casas de sendos ilustres representantes de la aristocracia pagana. La variada conversación (un mosaico de anécdotas, tradiciones y...

An anthology of Spanish women writers from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century. Water Lilies brings to light a rich & until now, largely invisible version of Spanish literary history. These hard-to-find works, most translated for the first time, are printed on facing pages in Spanish & English & are located within a critical, biographical & historical overview.

Novela de humor ácido y sarcástico para gente cansada del «mamarrachismo» televisivo y de la subnormalidad políticamente correcta. Situaciones absurdas y surrealistas, enredos descabellados y un viaje, a través de la intemporal incultura de todo un país, de la mano de un elenco de personajes de «dudosa reputación». Diversión garantizada. A Felatio Pilgrim, desde hace tiempo, las neuronas «le patinan» como las suelas a unas alpargatas viejas. Cuando la marquesa de La Farfollada, por catastróficas casualidades de la vida, le encarga la búsqueda de su recién fallecido marido,...

Brings together 35 selections by both well-known and relatively unknown authors from all the major Latina communities in the United States. Includes selections that represent the major lifestyles or issues confronting Latinas today, including sexual and personal oppression, family relations, traditional and new ways of exploring the female identity and relationships with men.

"Jesus Torrecilla explores the question of how societies considered to be marginal perceive their relationship with those that are hegemonic. Focusing on the works of Mariano Jose de Larra, Benito Perez Galdos, and Miguel de Unamuno, he argues that the inner tension created between the foreign models and the writers' own literary tradition explains two of the most important characteristics of Spanish literature: its belatedness with respect to European trends and, more generally, its traditionalism, which, says Torrecilla, is a reaction not against modernity as such but against modernity as a ...