El heliocentrismo en el mundo de habla española

This book collects for the first time a compendium of poems written in English by brigadists, sanitary personnel and journalists that participated or were involved in the Spanish Civil War, as well as by intellectuals, writers and journalists that supported the republican cause from the outside. The anthology starts from a previous historical framework in which this poetic legacy has been contextualized, to know where, when, how and why these poems were written, and who wrote them or who were their protagonists. All these analyses have served to understand the causes of why this poetic legacy ...

First published in 1900 Uruguay, Ariel is Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations. Though Rodó protested the interpretation, his allegorical conflict between Ariel, the lover of beauty and truth, and Caliban, the evil spirit of materialism and positivism, has come to be regarded as a metaphor for the conflicts and cultural differences between Latin America and the United States. Generations of statesmen, intellectuals, and literary figures have been formed by this book, either in championing...

Unas sabrosas reflexiones del gran Umberto Eco sobre el oficio de escribir «Umberto Eco cambió nuestra mirada sobre los libros: imprescindibles, pequeños, frágiles, a veces criminales, casi siempre salvadores. Un maestro que nos enseñó a entrelazar la sabiduría y el juego con su estilo sagaz y lúdico, con su asombrosa inventiva y certera lucidez.» Irene Vallejo Empecemos por el título: ¿por qué Confesiones de un joven novelista si el eximio profesor está a punto de cumplir los ochenta años? Pues porque su estreno como narrador se remonta a 1980 y, por lo tanto, Umberto Eco puede ...

Este volumen de actas recoge las mejores aportaciones presentadas al congreso internacional e interdisciplinar "Exilios femeninos", celebrado en la Universidad de Huelva en mayo de 1998 y organizado por el Seminario de Estudios de la Mujer. Se trata de una colección de ensayos sobre el tema del exilio en cuanto afecta a la mujer, desde la perspectiva de distintas áreas de las Humanidades-Literatura, Historia, Antropología, Pedagogía, etc., y escritos por profesionales procedentes de varios países.