CARMEN CONTRA PAGANOS

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 ...

Indaga la relación entre la emergencia de la ciudad americana como realidad geopolítica y la construcción del ideal utópico en diversas escrituras latinoamericanas, atendiendo a la diversidad que entraña el ideario utópico en lo ficcional, ideológico e intelectual, y a la configuración de una sociedad perfecta e idealizada.

Time is running out. While thousands of teens languish in the camps, Ruby and a group that survived the latest round of attacks gather in the North to plan a rescue mission. They only have one weapon and it's a double-edge sword: proof that the government was behind the plague that killed so many kids. Tensions build when rumors of a possible cure start circulating. Ruby knows the future of her entire generation hangs by a thread and it will only take one false move to make the string break.

Este libro se centra en la escritura literaria en las bitácoras digitales. En la blogosfera, ya desde su origen y expansión como fenómeno popular, se da una fuerte corriente de publicación literaria que ha resultado en no pocos weblogs convirtiéndose a libros (físicos o electrónicos). Sin embargo, solo en algunos casos se ha generado una tipología textual propia e identitaria del blog que resulta de dos tradiciones --el folletín y el diario personal-- que confluyen en la red junto a la inmediatez, el anonimato y la velocidad de la comunicación en la esfera digital. En el tomo se...