Himnos y Epigramas

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...

In 1978, when the Red Brigades kidnapped and murdered politician and Communist leader Aldo Moro, shocking all of Italy, Leonardo Sciascia, then MP for the Radical Party, participated in the commission that investigated the incident. That same year, on the fly, he wrote The Moro Case, which reads like a novel, but the author felt, above all, a work of truth.

Dentro de los géneros literarios sumerios, los himnos ocuparon un lugar muy destacado, debido no sólo a su tradición oral, sino también a su hondo contenido religioso, presente de modo inequívoco en tales composiciones religiosas. Prácticamente todos los dioses sumerios, los reyes más cualificados, los templos de mayor prestigio y los objetos de preciso contenido sagrado fueron glorificados mediante numerosísimos y adecuados himnos, cuya rica tipología posibilitaba una gran variedad compositiva e interpretativa. Los himnos vinieron a ser una fórmula o solución útil para los...