Léxico y pragmática

É lugar-comum pensar que a literatura clássica greco-romana é abundante em homoerotismo, e sabemos como a leitura dos clássicos influenciou pensadores e escritores dos séculos XIX e XX como Havelock Ellis, Oscar Wilde, J. A Symmonds, E. M. Forster, Edward Carpenter, Walt Whitman, Fernando Pessoa ou outros. Mas será mesmo assim? Carlos Miguel de Mora sugere os critérios pelos quais se poderá julgar o que seria uma sexualidade socialmente aceitável na Roma Antiga, permitindo, assim, compreender o que seria o homoerotismo: a "transgressão" à norma, do ponto de vista do pensamento...

Nueva edición, corregida y aumentada, de De los libros al poder, de Gabriel Zaid. En 1932, Alfonso Reyes veía en el mundo "un paulatino advenimiento al poder de las clases universitarias". Y así fue en México, donde la oligarquía revolucionaria cedió voluntariamente el poder a una nueva oligarquía universitaria. Para 1987, según el Diccionario biográfico del gobierno mexicano, de los 1,156 funcionarios más altos del poder ejecutivo, el 98% tenía licenciaturas (más de la mitad en la UNAM) y el 48% postgrados (más de la mitad en el extranjero). El 70% tenía experiencia académica...

He's proven it and proves it again in this hilarious, fast-paced story animated by her proverbial grace and his wit. Marco Denevi and some mysterious alter ego narrate a vast chronicle in an unusual way: offering the details of that kind of saga shredded in the articles of an encyclopedia. Articles that the reader can put together in diverse narrative systems, advancing successively, or alternating their advance in jumps, crosses, combinations... Thus, they will compose the story of an Argentine family that begins with the arrival in these lands of a Manuel the Adelantadito, conqueror of the...

C sar Vallejo is one of the finest poets of Latin America, and his poetry has managed to maintain a broad readership base right up until the modern day. Since Vallejo's posthumous poems were first published in 1939 in an edition supervised by his widow, Georgette de Vallejo, there remain to this day a number of unanswered questions about them. In what order did Vallejo write the poems? Would he have published the poems as they are? This book, by a careful analysis of the evidence available, proposes a new chronology for the posthumous poems, suggesting that the Peruvian poet's work went...