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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 ...

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...

The author of short stories, novels and essays, Benítez Rojo is an atypical intellectual in the panorama of Cuban exile because he offers an original perspective of the past, present and future conflicts of this troubled and complex area. This literary biography tells of his journey from his emergence in the Cuban intellectual world in 1967 to his death in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2005.

Un romance entre el Derecho y la Literatura, una confluencia teórica pero a la vez testimonial de las profundas interrelaciones entre estas dos disciplinas. Los veinte ensayos reunidos en este libro apuntan a sugerir nuevas aristas para el análisis de la problemática al interior de la Teoría del Derecho. La muestra no pretende ser exhaustiva ni agotar la riqueza de las novelas, cuentos, relatos y obras teatrales, materia de comentario, sino más bien una primera aproximación literario-jurídica para todos aquellos interesados en conocer el desarrollo del Derecho & Literatura en esta...