Villanos fantásticos

Una década muy imaginativa en la que emergió el cómic independiente y se crearon grandes personajes El arte de la narrativa gráfica de los años noventa parecía que iba a experimentar un boom notable tras la gran revolución mundial que desarrollaron los cómics en los años setenta y ochenta y que tan bien supo exponer el autor de este libro en su anterior "Cómics de los 80". Sin embargo, varios factores influyeron para que se produjera una impactante crisis que casi acabó con las esperanzas de artistas y editoriales de la historieta. No obstante esos años también dejaron ideas,...

Encyclopedias of fantastic animals are as ancient as old as writing itself. Many of the creatures that appear in this book reflect other emerging from beautiful artistic works written and illustrated manually in European abbeys in the medieval era. With the passage of time, the legends have been enriched and populated with new elements, and this stupendous, imaginative catalog of savage lions, hydras, and other mythical creatures is one of the largest and will entrance any fan of fantasy.

The author of short stories, novels and essays, Benítez Rojo is an atypical intellectual in the panorama of Cuban exile because he offers an original perspective of the past, present and future conflicts of this troubled and complex area. This literary biography tells of his journey from his emergence in the Cuban intellectual world in 1967 to his death in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2005.

This book collects for the first time a compendium of poems written in English by brigadists, sanitary personnel and journalists that participated or were involved in the Spanish Civil War, as well as by intellectuals, writers and journalists that supported the republican cause from the outside. The anthology starts from a previous historical framework in which this poetic legacy has been contextualized, to know where, when, how and why these poems were written, and who wrote them or who were their protagonists. All these analyses have served to understand the causes of why this poetic legacy ...

Hacia 1647, Rodrigo Caro comenzó a reunir los materiales de un libro que dejaría inconcluso, Varones insignes en letras naturales de la ilustrísima ciudad de Sevilla, donde había de reunir las biografías de escritores hispalenses desde la Antigüedad hasta el reinado de Felipe IV. La obra pretende trazar una línea continua en la cultura sevillana desde época turdetana y romana hasta la propia contemporaneidad de Caro, cuando la ciudad de Sevilla aspiraba a ser reconocida como una nueva Roma.

La autora examina cómo el conflicto político ha permeado la actual narrativa venezolana para trazar los orígenes y consecuencias de una contemporaneidad turbulenta. Explores the intersections of cultural policies, social changes, political conflict, and fiction writing in modern-day Venezuela.