Candela y el misterio de la puerta entreabierta

Propuestas para (re)construir una nación explores how Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851–1921) imagines and engenders the Spanish nation in her theatrical production staged and/or published between 1898 and 1909. In the aftermath of Spain’s colonial losses, when Spain’s male authors, in a growing mood of collective introspection, directed their attention to the homeland, Pardo Bazán generated a series of theatrical proposals to revitalize the nation. In her plays, she manifests her ideas about Spain’s fin de siècle crisis, reflects on Spain’s place in the international arena (emphasizing...

Dos crónicas: la primera sobre el entierro del Che Guevara, la segunda sobre el asesinato de Brad Will. Dos joyas del que probablemente sea, con su humor y su humanidad, el mejor cronista de su generación. Fabrizio Mejía, que solo conoció al Che «como camiseta y poster», acude a Cuba empujado por la curiosidad de ver cómo se cierra una historia de caballería del siglo XX. De igual modo, nueve años más tarde, Brad Will, un moderno Robinson, encuentra una muerte absurda y trágica en la revuelta de Oaxaca, uno de los surrealistas hitos de la antiglobalización posmoderna mundial. Y...

For students of literature, a background in literary theory will provide tools for analysis that yield a rich understanding of literary texts as well as a variety of approaches to writing about them. This is the first introductory Spanish-language textbook to present the complex and challenging thought of Barthes, Derrida, Foucault, Lacan, Kristeva and other leading authors, as well as feminists of the first and second waves, Russian formalists, Marxists, post-colonial writers, cultural and queer studies theorists and many other central thinkers in literary theory. Each chapter explores a...

Edited, translated, and introduced by Luis A. Ramos-Garcia Based on the princeps edition (1801) and preceded by a lengthy introductory study, this critical annonated edition documents key aspects of Spain's controversial Age of Reason, particularly the uncertain shifts in ideas, and the peculiarities of Montengon's idiosyncratic philosophical system.