De la cultura al feminismo

Historia y ficción se mezclan en una sorprendente novela que nos acercará a la inquietante figura de Rudolf Hess, amigo personal y secretario privado de Hitler, protagonista de uno de los episodios más oscuros de la segunda guerra mundial.

El libro reúne catorce ensayos cuyo hilo conductor lo constituye la defensa de la función del intelectual crítico y de sus mejores armas: la letra y el libro. Grínor Rojo cubre una gama amplia de temas: desde su retorno sobre el argumento en favor de una educación estética del hombre a su impugnación del desdén por la identidad colectiva y la historia, lo que, como él mismo se encarga de advertir, no tiene nada de azaroso sino que es constitutivo de y necesario para el programa de la globalización neoliberal.

Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, Mar�a Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832?95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. An aristocratic Californiana, she championed the rights of Mexican Americans in novels, plays, and letters. Her 1885 novel called attention to the illegal appropriation of Mexican land by the United States government, and she critiqued the political mores of America after the Civil War in light of the Mexican-American war. Her keen assessment of corporate capitalism at the end of the nineteenth...

This volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial...