El alma del bosque

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...

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 ...

Este volumen reúne los noventa y cinco artículos publicados por Javier Marías en el suplemento dominical El País Semanal entre el 8 de febrero de 2015 y el 29 de enero de 2017. Noventa y cinco piezas que ofrecen una instantánea de la realidad, del gran articulista de la prensa española actual. «¿Se puede hacer algo en un mundo en el que contamos con grabaciones, con sonido e imágenes, con máquinas calculadoras más fiables que nunca, y todo ello se refuta con desfachatez? ¿Estamos adormilados, hipnotizados o simplemente idiotizados para creer más a los distorsionadores que a...

Con apalabras para aprender e imágenes para observar, este libro ayudará a desarrollar el vocabulario de los más pequeños mientras descubren el mundo de los animales. Cada página tiene un pregunta, para que los niños se diviertan buscando la respuesta entre fotografías y palabras.