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En este libro se han reunido algunos de los trabajos más importantes que se han publicado sobre la Celestina. Se pueden encontrar aportaciones fundamentales de: M. Chevalier, A. Deyermond, O. Di Camillo, L. Fothergill-Payne, S. Gilman, O. Handy, E. Lacarra Lanz, M. A. Ladero Quesada, M. R. Lida de Malkiel, F. Márquez Villanueva, J. H. Martin McCash, F. Norton, P. Russell, C. Parrilla, N. Salvador Miguel, D. Severin, G. Shipley y J. Snow. El volumen incluye, además, una extensa bibliografía sobre la obra.

Eamonn Wall arrived in the United States in the 1980s as part of a wave of young, educated immigrants who became known as the "New Irish." In this book he comments on his own experiences and those of his generation, who identify as much with contemporary ethnic and immigrant America as they do with the long-settled Irish American community. Wall's starting point is the now-closed Sin-é Café in New York's East Village, which was a hangout in the early 1990s for expatriate Irish musicians, actors, and writers. He comments on the poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs of both the New Irish and...

Una declaración de amor al correo postal «Repleto de maravillosas anécdotas, fascinantes chismes históricos y citas. La pasión epistolar de Garfield resulta contagiosa.» The New York Times Book Review Todos hemos vivido la cálida emoción de recibir una carta o la impaciente espera de noticias postales. Sin embargo, parecemos asistir sin inmutarnos a la desaparición de un arte que durante siglos desempeñó un papel irreemplazable. El correo electrónico, sucesor eficaz pero aséptico y demasiado instantáneo, no da lugar ya ni a un proceso mental pausado, ni al placer táctil del...

This volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial...