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An anthology of Spanish women writers from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century. Water Lilies brings to light a rich & until now, largely invisible version of Spanish literary history. These hard-to-find works, most translated for the first time, are printed on facing pages in Spanish & English & are located within a critical, biographical & historical overview.

Edición anotada y estudio del conjunto de epístolas escritas entre 1621 y 1624 por Lope de Vega y por el erudito segoviano Diego de Colmenares en el marco de la polémica suscitada por el gran eco y éxito que habían obtenido los llamados “poemas mayores” (especialmente el Polifemo y las Soledades) de Luis de Góngora.

En esta segunda aproximación a los saberes artísticos de la modernidad, Manuel Lavaniegos reflexiona sobre el surgimiento del arte denominado "abstracto" o "no figurativo", que emerge a comienzos del siglo xx, tomando como objeto de análisis la pintura y los escritos artísticos de Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), uno de los pioneros fundamentales en la creación abstraccionista como cauce clave en la transformación de la sensibilidad y el pensamiento contemporáneos. La relevancia que poseen las pinturas e ideas de Kandinsky, con su vocación antirrealista, no mimética, no son tratados en ...

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 ...