Entre Corsarios y Cautivos

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...

Mientras que la literatura castellana se expande y triunfa, las letras gallegas y catalans viven una situación muy diferente en esta época. Mariela de la Torre, Josep Solervicens, Vicent Josep Escartí, Pedro Álvarez de Miranda, Joaquim Martí Mestre, Rosa Navarro, Eulàlia Duran, Guillermo Serés, Rolf Eberenz y Carlos Gilly ofrecen novedades y motivos de reflexión sobre una época compleja, conflictiva y en parte desatendida hasta la actualidad.

Mariola Pietrak aborda un estudio exclusivamente literario, orientado por la teoría sociocrítica, sobre la familia como ente social y su transformación en la sociedad argentina desde la dictadura hasta nuestros días. La selección de las obras analizadas de las autoras Marta Traba, Matilde Sánchez, Laura Alcoba, Raquel Robles, Ángela Urondo Raboy, Patricia Suárez y Florencia Abbate, traza una dinámica singular de la unidad familiar argentina, constantemente expuesta a la destrucción y el examen por las circunstancias políticas, económicas, históricas, al tiempo que se resalta el...

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...