El domador de sueños

Who writes "I"? How is the scene of writing represented in autobiographical texts? To whom are autobiographies addressed? What kinds of readers are inscribed in autobiographical narratives? In Apology to Apostrophe, James D. Fernandez offers a lucid and powerful meditation on the nature of autobiographical writing through his investigation of the historical conditions and literary stagings of autobiographical writing in Spain. As Fernandez demonstrates, recent developments in critical theory provide new and fruitful approaches to autobiographical works that have long been neglected,...

En esta serie de ensayos, Óscar Quezada Macchiavello construye una mirada que interpela el sentido de fenómenos socioculturales y textos artísticos desde la semiótica y la filosofía. Luego de analizar los discursos que configuraron la escena política en el caso de Lucchetti Perú (1997-1998), pasa revista a mitos recogidos en el Manuscrito de Huarochirí (principios del siglo XVII) y, además, a obras de César Vallejo, José María Arguedas, Julio Ramón Ribeyro y Jorge Luis Borges. Ensayos semióticos: teoría, mito, literatura presenta un modo de lectura apoyada en las aplicaciones...

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...

De las muchas criaturas fabulosas que han poblado la literatura y el cine, la mujer fatal es una de las más recurrentes y proteicas de los dos últimos siglos, si bien forma parte de una antigua estirpe que se remonta hasta la inconstante Helena clásica que motivó la guerra de Troya o la temeraria Eva bíblica que condenó a la humanidad entera. A través del análisis de personajes literarios—de Carmen a Lolita—o cinematográficos—la Madeleine de «Vértigo» y la Conchita de «Ese oscuro objeto del deseo»—, la autora examina el mito de la temible «femme fatale» partiendo de un ...