New Perspectives on Arabian Nights

This book, conceived as a tribute to Prof. Antonio Ramírez de Verger on the occasion of his retirement, contains a brief outline of his academic career, a complete list of his publications and a wide selection of his articles, reviews and book chapters published over four decades. These writings examine a variety of authors, such as Fronto, Corippus, Maximianus, Tibullus, Horace, Virgil, Tacitus, Catullus, Propertius, Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Ovid and Martial, and they also include contributions on various philological topics. El libro, concebido como homenaje al Prof. Ramírez de Verger...

Este libro demuestra la relevancia de la figura femenina en el teatro del dramaturgo inglés Edward Bond, a pesar de ser un campo de investigación totalmente olvidado para la crítica. Para Bond, el teatro presenta una clara función didáctica más que estética ya que transforma el escenario en un foro de discusión sobre la situación social. La visión panorámica de las mujeres de sus primeras obras persigue como objetivo principal dilucidar la evolución femenina como personaje dramático en el universo de un autor marcadamente político.

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...

"The author uncovers and reconstructs the Taino Arawak system of communication. Areas covered include phonetics, phonology, morphosyntax, and lexicon, not to mention important considerations regarding onomastics and toponymy."