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This book proposes a renewed myth-critical approach to the so-called ‘wasteland modernism’ of the 1920s to reassess certain key texts of the American modernist canon from a critical prism that offers new perspectives of analysis and interpretation. Myth-criticism and, more specifically, the critical survey of myth as an aesthetic and ideological strategy fundamental for the comprehension of modernist literature, leads to an engaging discussion about the disenchantment of myth in modernist literary texts. This process of mythical disenchantment, inextricable from the cultural and...

Raquel, en su lecho de muerte, pide a Indalecio, su antiguo marido, y Milagritos, sobrina de ambos, que se unan en matrimonio. Tío y sobrina se niegan en redondo a llevar a cabo dicha petición. ¿Lograrán salvar las barreras sociales que les saldrán al paso?

Biblioteca Clásica de la Real Academia Española. Joyas universales de nuestras letras Lope evoca los escandalosos amores con Elena Osorio que terminaron en un proceso y una sentencia de destierro. El poeta los recordó toda su vida, y en la vejez los recreó en una "acción en prosa" que es, en palabras de José Manuel Blecua, "una de las más bellas obras de toda nuestra literatura". Edición de Donald McGrady.

Campo Santo is a collection of essays by W. G. Sebald When W.G. Sebald died tragically in 2001 a unique voice was silenced. Campo Santo is a collection of the pieces he left behind - none of them previously published in book form - which provide a powerful insight into the themes that came to dominate his life. Four pieces pay tribute to Corsica, weaving elegiacally between past and present. Sebald also examines the works of writers such as Kafka, Nabokov, and Günter Grass, showing both how literature can provide restitution for the injustices of the world and how such literature came to...