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El libro que tiene el lector entre las manos es una recopilación se­ lecta de la obra investigadora de un filólogo excepcional, por la di­ versidad de sus intereses culturales y por el talante humanista que rezuma cada uno de sus trabajos. La decena que se reúne en estas pá­ ginas permite contrastar el rigor y la valentía con los que se enfrentó a géneros y temas controvertidos (el origen de la novela picaresca, por ejemplo), o desconocidos en su momento, como el sainete y el erotismo dieciochesco. Pero permite, sobre todo, conocer la enorme sensibilidad que ante los poetas tuvo...

Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...

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...

Durante cincuenta años, el escritor Tom Wolfe ha diseccionado la sociedad norteamericana. Tanto como periodista, como narrador de no-ficción o como novelista, ha hecho de la literatura popular el vehículo idóneo tanto para el análisis sociológico, como para la reflexión filosófica. Su personal técnica de escritura, mezcla de recursos periodísticos y literarios, se ha convertido en un estilo tan reconocible, como su propia imagen de atildado caballero sudista, vestido siempre de blanco impecable. A lo largo de su carrera ha hecho de la provocación su caballo de batalla, a...