Biografía y polémica

La economía es el estudio del comportamiento racional, y la gente racional responde a compensaciones y estímulos. Cuando los costes o los beneficios de algo cambian, la gente modifica su comportamiento. El autor traslada esta teoría a ámbitos de la vida tan variados como el sexo, la sociedad, la guerra, el amor, el racismo, las relaciones laborales, la política o el juego.

Rivera-Rodas proposes a new concept about what he calls the poetics of the theatrical reception. The discussion of this phenomenon, which also deals with meta theater, focuses on the dramatic work of Mario Vargas Llosa. Examination of the complex relationships of contemporary dramatic structures provides a new definition of meta theater and its effects on the public. Meta theater is shown as a semiotic result not theatrically representable, since it takes place only in the spectator's perceptible experience. Therefore, it does not exist prior to the theatrical or reading reception, nor is it...

«Observemos la fotografía: es en blanco y negro y la dudosa nitidez de sus contrastes denuncia los límites de la técnica de su momento y la fecha ya lejana en que ha sido tomada. Sabemos que fue en 1947, probablemente a finales del año. En ella aparecen tres hermanas».

Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832-95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. An aristocratic Californiana, she championed the rights of Mexican Americans in novels, plays, and letters. Her 1885 novel called attention to the illegal appropriation of Mexican land by the United States government, and she critiqued the political mores of America after the Civil War in light of the Mexican-American war. Her keen assessment of corporate capitalism at the end of the nineteenth...