La mitificación de un pasado español

"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 ...

A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. “The most interesting ideas are heresies,” she remarked, and indeed, her writing rejects the familiar and refuses party lines. On Women presents seven essays and exchanges, spanning a range of subjects: the challenges and humiliations women face as they age; the relationship between women’s liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag...

Su amor fue tan intenso como su forma de vida. Niema y Dallas eran agentes especiales y hacían trabajos para diversas entidades, principalmente la CIA. Llevaban unos meses casados cuando aceptaron una peligrosa misión en Irán. Algo salió mal y, para salv

Der Dialog wird zunehmend als eine zentrale Gattung der Renaissanceliteratur erkannt. Ihr hybrider Charakter zwischen Fiktion und Sachtext macht Renaissancedialoge dabei in mehrfacher Hinsicht interessant - behandeln sie doch in fiktionalen Gesprachsszenarien theoretische Fragen. Einen Sonderweg geht die lukianeske Dialogtradition. Ihre haufig phantastischen Gesprachspartner machen das satirische Element stark. Dialoge aus Spanien und Portugal harren allerdings noch weitgehend ihrer Entdeckung. In diesem Band werden sie in herausragenden Beispielen vorgestellt und fuer den katalanischen und...