El primer novelista argentino

Eugenio Segry o El Traviato, de Miguel Cane (padre), es una de las novelas argentinas mas originales del periodo 1840-1860 porque muestra, mediante una ficcion que apenas disimula la base autobiografica, el contraste entre la sociedad europea imaginada por los hispanoamericanos y la sociedad europea real. Gracias a esta comparacion, el autor reafirma el orgullo nacional por la Argentina en cuanto nacion sana moralmente hablando. En la presente edicion critica, Beatriz Curia continua su meticulosa e imprescindible labor de rescate del patrimonio literario argentino. Con mirada libre de...

Benito Perez Galdos sought a new narrative structure which would revitalize the literary models prevalent in 19th-century Spain. He found such a structure in the creation of a dialogue between normally incompatible texts — between old and new, national and foreign, high culture and low. From the confrontation of these incongruous texts a narrative is born which, through the destruction of textual hierarchies, creates an ambiguous and often duplicitous texture of storytelling. Five paradigms, based upon five Novelas Contemporaneas, are used to exemplify the dialogical structure of the new...

The author of the book analyzes five short stories of one of the most significant writers of modern Latin American literature with a mythocritical and symbological approach. From among the endeavors to define and systematize the ancient literary figures for the interpretation of existence (myth, symbol), the author opts for Gilbert Durand's comprehensive system originating in cultural anthropology as a theoretical foundation and starting point for her analytical strategy. The original and dynamic analyses of the short stories, which, at the same time, respect the aspects indicated by the...

Este libro está dirigido a los jóvenes, y a todo aquel que quiera conocer el fascinante mundo de las matemáticas a través de su historia. Las ideas matemáticas que hoy manejamos con soltura, incluso las más simples, han tardado siglos en gestarse.

Time is running out. While thousands of teens languish in the camps, Ruby and a group that survived the latest round of attacks gather in the North to plan a rescue mission. They only have one weapon and it's a double-edge sword: proof that the government was behind the plague that killed so many kids. Tensions build when rumors of a possible cure start circulating. Ruby knows the future of her entire generation hangs by a thread and it will only take one false move to make the string break.