Arthur Miller: visiones desde el nuevo milenio

A comprehensive catalog of the byzantine operations of the "Circus" and the details surrounding the life of fictional spy George Smiley

Un político sin pelos en la lengua y un líder incombustible con más de sesenta años de trayectoria. Fraga podía ser sorprendente: «Yo pude ser Fidel Castro.» No le importaba ser polémico: «El orgullo gay es un error social .» Y gastaba un verbo florido: «Las paridades son paridas.» ¿Quién no recuerda su célebre frase «La calle es mía.» o las palabras con que pasó a José María Aznar el testigo como líder del PP: «No hay tutelas ni tutías»? Y qué decir de su mítico eslogan para promover la industria turística, «Spain is different?» El talento de Manuel Fraga para...

By insisting that women should be equal partners, Pardo Bazán problematically adopted the patriarchal binarism that assigns women to Nature and men to Culture, but she also subverted it by denying its supplemental relationship. Her astute choice and manipulation of masculine cultural models (Realism, not Romanticism; prose, not poetry; Castilian language, not Galician) ultimately won her--despite fierce opposition--inclusion in the Spanish national canon. Furthermore, the study of her thorny relations with emerging Galician nationalism shows that her exclusion from "Galician literature" was...

Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...