El alma del bosque

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) spoke of the promiscuity of art and literature the willingness of great artists and writers to scandalize their spectators through critical frankness, complexity, and beauty. Sontag's life and thought were no less promiscuous. She wrote deeply and engagingly about a range of subjects theater, sex, politics, novels, torture, and illness and courted celebrity and controversy both publicly and privately. Throughout her career, she not only earned adulation but also provoked scorn. Her living was the embodiment of scandal. In this collection, Terry Castle, Nancy K....

REPÚBLICA LITERARIA Y REVOLUCIÓN (1920-1939) quiere ser un ensayo de interpretación de un proceso cultural que trata de reconstruir el hilo rojo de la literatura española durante los años veinte y treinta. Un hilo rojo que tuvo a la intelectualidad comunista como vanguardia que trató de hacer compatibles literatura y política. Pero una vanguardia que comprendía no sólo a los intelectuales militantes sino también a los «compañeros de viaje», que colaboraron juntos, en oposición al fascismo ascendente, en la construcción del Frente Popular de la cultura española. Libros,...

Este volumen recoge diez propuestas de estudio presentadas en Palma de Mallorca con motivo de las jornadas celebradas durante los días 2, 3 y 4 de abril de 2012 sobre Écfrasis e imitación artística en la poesía hispánica contemporánea. Coordinados por Francisco Díaz de Castro y Almudena del Olmo Iturriarte, profesores ambos de la Universidad de las Islas Baleares, colaboran en él especialistas en poesía hispánica contemporánea –española, catalana y latinoamericana– tratando de afianzar la noción de interculturalidad relacionada con la interartisticidad. Tanto los...

Peter Pan was born over a century ago. There is something doubly contradictory in this phrase that, although true, is also the reason why this book has been released. We are talking about the boy who will never grow up and the fact that he is celebrating his hundredth birthday should provoke some surprise. At the same time, he is such a powerful icon that it is also true that he seems to have been there, floating in our culture, reappearing in its images, since time immemorial - much farther back than the early twentieth century. This book shows that, although he considered dying to be an...