Lo real y lo imaginario. Ensayos literarios

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 ...

Eamonn Wall arrived in the United States in the 1980s as part of a wave of young, educated immigrants who became known as the "New Irish." In this book he comments on his own experiences and those of his generation, who identify as much with contemporary ethnic and immigrant America as they do with the long-settled Irish American community. Wall's starting point is the now-closed Sin-é Café in New York's East Village, which was a hangout in the early 1990s for expatriate Irish musicians, actors, and writers. He comments on the poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs of both the New Irish and...

El Apologético de Espinosa Medrano es un testimonio tardío de la polémica gongorina, el único escrito en América por un defensor del poeta. Se trata de un tratado erudito de crítica literaria en el que un joven predicador y catedrático de Artes y Teología hace gala de su saber, su gracia y su estilo para defender al príncipe de los poetas de España contra los ataques vertidos por Manuel de Faria e Sousa, polígrafo portugués y defensor de Camões. Publicado en Lima en 1662, el libro es también una reivindicación criolla de Espinosa Medrano y de su círculo, apoyada en un contexto ...

La educación como herramienta fundamental para prevenir el cáncer, la información y el compromiso de toda la comunidad, son parte de los temas que el Dr. Vázquez aborda en éste libro. Un importante aporte al conocimiento de esta enfermedad, y una ayuda para en frentarla y perderle el miedo.