Examen de ingenios para las ciencias

The first Latin American to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature, the Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is often characterized as a healing, maternal voice who spoke on behalf of women, indigenous peoples, the disenfranchised, children, and the rural poor. She is that political poet and more: a poet of philosophical meditation, self-consciousness, and daring. This is a book full of surprises and paradoxes. The complexity and structural boldness of these prose-poems, especially the female-erotic prose pieces of her first book, make them an important moment in the history of literary...

La casa de Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba) was one of the last plays to be written by Lorca, shortly before he was executed by the Franco regime at the age of 38, in 1936. It was not performed until 1945 several years after his death. Along with Blood Wedding and Yerma it forms Lorca's Rural Trilogy.

A pesar del uso eurocéntrico que se sigue haciendo del patrimonio cultural grecolatino, su herencia inmaterial ha logrado desplazarse hacia fuera de sus límites geográficos, como se pretende demostrar en el presente volumen. En Desplazamientos de la tradición clásica en las culturas hispánicas se replantean algunos conceptos relacionados con el bagaje artístico-literario que nos han dejado el clasicismo y sus posteriores evoluciones, desde la metáfora del viaje a la redefinición del canon. Los doce ensayos que aquí se presentan proponen una reflexión sobre la necesidad que el arte...

This work explores how religion is used as a tool to procure public support for warfare presenting the historical case of the Truman administration's 'War on Communism' as a backdrop for the contemporary case of Bush's 'War on Terror'. Together these two case studies create a framework from which to analyze the importance of religion as a tool in American foreign policy after Worl War II.