Estudios de erudición y homenaje a Menéndez Pelayo

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.

Biography and appreciation of literary contributions of women authors by other women, with brief biographical information included on them also. Included are Magda Szabó, Anne Waldman, Gisela Kozak Rovero, Gordana Kuić, Nélida Piñón, Margaret Atwood, Sofia Coppola, Doris Lessing, A. S. Byatt, Sujata Bhatt, Assia Djebar, Amélie Nothomb, Zadie Smith, Wisława Szymborska, and Anne Tyler.

Los tres autores aquí reunidos —Meister Eckhart (1260-1328), Angelus Silesius (1624-1677) y Paul Celan (1920-1970)—, a pesar de su distancia en el tiempo, parecen tener una misma vocación: crear un lenguaje que escape a toda pretensión interpretativa. Cuando leemos sus textos poéticos no podemos dejar de pensar que ninguna imagen puede ser extraída de su contexto de escritura sin que con ello caiga rota en pedazos en su resistencia a ser trasladada a conceptos. Y por eso los leemos una y otra vez, con la esperanza de que las potentes imágenes que brillan tras los cuerpos de...

Richly informed by contemporary sociological theory, Manuel de Jesus Hernandez El colonialismo interno en la narrativa chicana distinguishes between the assimilationist and the internal colonialism models of Mexican American society and culture. The author applies the internal colonialism model for the first time to the representation of Chicanos found in their narrative literature. Among the categories of narrative discussed are the espacio pochista, the migrante, and the indigenista. The book is a signal advance in the sociology of Chicano narrative and its application to significant...