Discurso lit y discurso polito del Franquis/ Literary And Political Speech Of The Franquismo

LA MANO QUE ESCRIBE: Literatura, arte y pensamiento FIRST NATIONAL ESSAY AWARD 2008 OF THE PEN CLUB OF PUERTO RICO BY: ZOÉ JIMÉNEZ CORRETJER THE HAND THAT WRITES: Literature, Art and Thought This collection of essays include studies from medieval to contemporary literature in Spain and the Americas. Topics are focused in a philosophical, symbolical, and anthropological perspectives. Some essays cover the history of women philosophers, language and linguistics, sephardic studies, aesthetics, medieval misticism, and feminism... The title of the book was inspired by the special object named...

La literatura y el ocio en la sociedad cortesana del Siglo de Oro es un estudio histórico sobre el ideal del ocio laborioso, diferenciado de la ociosidad que consiste en no hacer nada. El enfoque resulta novedoso, ya que escasean las investigaciones sobre la historia moderna del otium, complementaria del negotium, quizá por haber sido considerada un tema de importancia menor con relación al trabajo. La principal hipótesis desarrollada tiene que ver con la revaloración del ocio laborioso ocurrida en el contexto de la sociedad cortesana de los siglos XVI y XVII, cuya herencia persiste con...

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...

In this very realistic novel, six people tell readers about the life of a teenage drug user named Mario from the time he was born to the time he dies at age 19. The different voices blend to create a poignant commentary on family, friendship, love, society, and the problems facing young people.