Sujetos del deseo

A beautiful metaphor about the history of mankind. Birds represent the ambitions of the people. Good intentions become perverted; but a gleam of hope shines on the horizon.

The characters of The Walking Dead live in a desolate post-apocalyptic world, filled with relentless violence and death. In reality, how would such never-ending stress and trauma affect the psyche? By understanding the psychological forces that drive the series' action, viewers can better appreciate it.

Situada en la tradición de la novela pastoril española y en deuda tanto con la “Arcadia” de Jacopo Sannazaro como con la lírica eclógica clásica y moderna, “La Galatea” es un “cercado laberinto” de amor y de poesía y un “lazo” de narraciones. Es, ciertamente, una novela de novelas en la que, sobre un relato primario esencialmente pastoril que oficia de hilo conductor, se suspenden, en ponderado equilibrio, hasta cuatro secundarios: el de Lisandro y Leonida; el de Teolinda, Artidoro, Leonarda y Galercio; el de Timbrio y Silerio, y el de Rosaura, Grisaldo y Artandro....

Mariselle Melendez studies the dynamics of colonial subject identity construction as elaborated in the exemplary eighteenth-century travel book, El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (A Guide for Inexperienced Travelers ). She analyzes elements of race and gender to argue that they become essential parts of the colonialist project which the author articulates throughout his travel diary by means of the voices of his two narrators: the Spanish Visitador Alonso Carrio de la Vandera and his companion and amanuensis, Calixto Bustamente Carlos Inca. Melendez shows how racial and cultural hybridity...