El jardín de las delicias

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...

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...

Se trata de una tradución al español de una obra del año 1165, una de las primeras escrita en francés antiguo y no en latín. Erec et Énide narra la iniciación a la vida adulta de una pareja de jóvenes, una trama repleta de combates caballerescos y de amor cortés. El relato, de una belleza excepcional, fue obra de Chrétien de Troyes, autor asimismo de otras cinco narraciones que hicieron época y de al menos dos poemas líricos.

La presente obra propone mostrar qué se esconde tras el disfraz lingüístico del tabú, a través de un recorrido global e interdisciplinar de los procesos de interdicción lingüística (el eufemismo, el disfemismo y los procesos mixtos) en sus distintas vertientes (lingüística, pragmática y literaria) tomando como base el lenguaje literario inglés. De este modo, El eufemismo y el disfemismo intenta subsanar las limitaciones observadas en los trabajos precedentes relativos a la interdicción verbal, por lo general limitados al eufemismo como fenómeno léxico-semántico, y adopta una...