Un Baruch para Spinoza

Esta monografía propone una lectura histórica de los últimos veinte años de la vida y obra de Benito Pérez Galdós, con especial dedicación a su producción narrativa. Se trata de un estudio novedoso sobre uno de los periodos más controvertidos para la crítica galdosiana, cuyos resultados a día de hoy se traducen en investigaciones dispersas, conectadas entre sí tan solo de manera parcial. Por ello, este trabajo relaciona su producción escrita (novelas, piezas teatrales, artículos, prólogos, discursos y correspondencia) con su actividad pública (política e intelectual)....

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...

The book, unique in its kind, includes a total of 28 writers representative of 13 different Latin American countries, from those who are part of the canon such as Isabel Allende, Gioconda Belli, Liliana Heker, Nancy Morejon, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, Alfonsina Storni, Gabriela Mistral, and Julia de Burgos to emergent voices, such as Cecilia Bustamante, Rosina Valcarcel, and Gladys Ilarregui. This anthology will be the perfect text to give an overview of contemporary poetry and short story by leading Latin American women writers. The range of countries...

This study examines how George Orwell's legacy as a writer developed, and the importance of his work both during and after his lifetime. John Rodden seeks to bring Orwell's work into proper focus while providing insight into the phenomenon of literary fame.