Desafíos, diferencias y deformaciones de la ciudadanía

This work is a study of the "Galician Trilogy" written by Camilo Jose Cela, consisting of his novels "Mazurca para dos muertos" (1983), "La cruz de San Andres" (1994), and "Madera de boj" (1999).

El mito de Isis y Osiris es el relato mas significativo del Antiguo Egipto. Su tema es la renovacion ciclica de la naturaleza -tal como se observa en los ciclos lunares, las crecidas del Nilo y el desarrollo de las plantas, animales y seres humanos- y la realidad de la muerte como misterio y renacimiento espiritual. Durante mas de tres mil anos, este relato mitologico fue cantado por los egipcios en himnos, poemas y representaciones teatrales, pero su maximo testimonio tenia lugar en la ciudad de Abidos, en el Alto Egipto, cuando numerosos sacerdotes representaban un drama misterico en honor...

Inspector Bismark Pacheco, the most respected man in Costa Rica, would rather practice playing his tuba, but he is called to the mountain resort of Monteverde to investigate an armed robbery of a group of tourists, and Pacheco soon finds himself pitted against a group of clever professional criminals.

Góngora's Soledades, the major lyric poem of the Spanish Baroque. Combining philological rigor with a capacity to engage the most contemporary transatlantic and comparatist concerns, this work situates Luis de Góngora's Soledades within the problematic evolution of Hispanic modernity. As well as offering an insightful analysis of the Soledades as an expression of the Baroque crisis in all its facets -epistemological, ontological, cultural and historical - the author reads the fragmented lyric subject of Gongorist poetics back against Renaissance precursors [Rojas' Celestina and the poetry...