El vuelo de Altazor

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 ...

Este libro parte de las teorías de Réné Girard en torno a la violencia y el sacrificio para tratar de explorar una clave hermenéutica alternativa válida que ilumine unas piezas que mantienen vigente su capacidad de asombrar y conmover. Si bien Calderón de la Barca da sobradas muestras de modernidad en otras obras, su trilogía del honor conyugal parece respaldar la violencia uxoricida que pone en escena.

El texto es una ventana no solo a la mente y a la sensibilidad de uno de los pensadores más agudos del siglo XVII, sino también al complejísimo contexto histórico e intelectual europeo de la Modernidad temprana. Y en la prosa del joven Browne, la batalla entre lo antiguo y lo moderno, la ciencia y la religión, la conciencia privada y el deber público se libra sin derramamiento de sangre, sin odio y sin fanatismo. El estilo del autor, elogiado al punto de ser considerado por muchos uno de los momentos más altos en la historia de la lengua inglesa, logra una síntesis admirable de...

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...