Talbot Mundy, Philosopher of Adventure

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 ...

Poeta y traductora estrella de su generación (la “generación mimeógrafo” de la década de 1970 en Brasil), Ana Cristina Cesar (Río de Janeiro, 1952-1983) inauguró un modo de escribir, leer y pensar la literatura que excedió, con la potencia y la imprevisibilidad de un rayo, las fronteras de su país, e incluso las de su lengua y su época. Sus certeras, sugestivas y hasta hoy casi secretas investigaciones sobre los temas centrales de la creación literaria –que aquí presentamos en una primera traducción a nuestro idioma– se plasmaron en una serie de escritos cuya novedad y...

"The unevenly clustered historical conditions of the Caribbean nations bind us to the revival and redefinition of the ideals of unification begotten by 19th Century Puerto Rican thinkers. Coleccion Caribena is intended to build connection points that will enable the exchange of ideas, languages and forms. In doing so this collection will reflect the plural character of the region while publishing a comprehensive sample of works in various fields-Literature, Social Sciences, Literary Criticism, History-and, hopefully in various languages. An analysis of famed Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia...

Time is running out. While thousands of teens languish in the camps, Ruby and a group that survived the latest round of attacks gather in the North to plan a rescue mission. They only have one weapon and it's a double-edge sword: proof that the government was behind the plague that killed so many kids. Tensions build when rumors of a possible cure start circulating. Ruby knows the future of her entire generation hangs by a thread and it will only take one false move to make the string break.