Aschenkindel. El cuento recontado

La literatura tiene un problema de identidad: todos los lectores creemos saber qué es pero nadie la sabe definir con precisión. Este volumen propone abrir nuevos debates en torno a la lectura y a la literatura basados en la exploración de estos factores.

This critical biography chronicles both the actual travels and the philosophical meanderings of Talbot Mundy, one of the pioneers of the fantasy and adventure genre. Less celebrated than his contemporaries Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad, Mundy was no less gifted when it came to the literary portrayal of faraway lands. He was one of the first Western writers to show an appreciation of Eastern culture, and his writing became an outlet for his radical ideas on religion and philosophy. At the age of sixteen, Mundy left his native England to begin his life of adventure—a journey that took him ...

Following studies by Goodman, Waley, and Darst, this new study of Garcilaso's work rejects as unfounded the traditional readings of Garcilaso's poetry based on the idea of sincerity and the poet's frustrated love for the Portuguese lady-in-waiting Isabel Freire. In place of the much-abused concept of sincerity, Heiple argues that the intellectual currents of the Renaissance are much more important for the analysis of Garcilaso's poetry. He analyzes in Garcilaso's poetry the uses of Renaissance concepts of mythology, poetic style, theories of love, primitivism, and iconological traditions....

Una reconstrucción periodística, con testimonios sobre la realidad de los migrantes: se van para sobrevivir, pero al regresar su lucha es aún más dura. Si se nos dijera que existe un país terrible donde los pobres de otros lares que quieren alcanzar sus orillas son ofendidos, golpeados, humillados, violados, estafados y asesinados, no se nos ocurriría jamás que fuera el nuestro, el hospitalario México. Y sin embargo es así: un flujo imparable de migrantes busca asilo y nuevas oportunidades en nuestra tierra, o simplemente intenta cruzar una de nuestras temibles fronteras para...