Poética

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 ...

¿Qué secreto se oculta tras el robo de la colección de moda de Julie? Las chicas del Club de Tea van a París de vacaciones, pero allí tendrán que enfrentarse a un nuevo e inquietante misterio. Para resolverlo, nuestras amigas darán caza al ladrón bajo las sombras de la Torre Eiffel

Este libro se interesa en las conexiones de la literatura con los generos y esteticas de la cultura de masas. En todos los relatos considerados puede leerse la seduccion que ejercen las formas de la cultura popular, paralela a la producida b"y buscadab" en el lector, pero seguida de una inevitable "traicion." Amor e infidelidad hacia las formas masivas: los textos las usan, las integran pero no pueden evitar marcar la diferencia, que es la diferencia con "la otra cultura." Y es en esa distancia entre el uso seductor y la decepcion de lo esperado que se abre la posibilidad de una lectura...

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...