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Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this comparative study of a selection of The Arabian Nights stories in a cross-cultural context, brings together a number of disciplines and subject areas to examine the workings of narrative. It predominantly focuses on the ways in which the Arabian Nights have transformed as its stories have travelled across historical eras, cultures, genres and media. Departing from the familiar approaches of influence and textual studies, this book locates its central inquiry in the theoretical questions surrounding the workings of ideology, genre and genre ideology ...

This book, conceived as a tribute to Prof. Antonio Ramírez de Verger on the occasion of his retirement, contains a brief outline of his academic career, a complete list of his publications and a wide selection of his articles, reviews and book chapters published over four decades. These writings examine a variety of authors, such as Fronto, Corippus, Maximianus, Tibullus, Horace, Virgil, Tacitus, Catullus, Propertius, Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Ovid and Martial, and they also include contributions on various philological topics. El libro, concebido como homenaje al Prof. Ramírez de Verger...

En el Siglo de Oro, una época marcada por la omnipresencia de la locura (de los reyes locos a sus bufones, de los internos de manicomios a los locos de la baraja del tarot), Belén Atienza ha descubierto que el fascinante y complejísimo debate en torno a la enfermedad mental estaba íntimamente ligado a cuestiones políticas y teológicas. Este ensayo, radicalmente innovador, es el primero dedicado a la locura y la melancolía en el teatro de Lope de Vega. Conocedor de la medicina de su tiempo, los manicomios y las “locuras” de reyes y validos, Lope dramatiza la tragedia de los enfermos ...

La escritora mexicana explora en este volumen la relación entre "colonizado" y escritura a través de una lectura de crónicas de Indias (Cortés, Las Casas, Cabeza de Vaca) y de la obra de sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.