Mujer y prensa en la Modernidad

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...

Language-as signifier and signified-serves as the focus of Diz's book on the Conde Lucanor. This is, indeed, an intelligent reading of the Conde Lucanor which will have considerable impact on Juan Manuel criticism and fourteenth-century studies.

Seven middle-aged women, who have not seen each other for more than 30 years, are called to a class reunion at which they are forced to confront a terrible secret from their childhood.

Este libro reúne los ensayos más célebres de Susan Sontag, una obra imprescindible para el pensamiento contemporáneo. Publicado por primera vez en 1966, este celebrado libro de Susan Sontag, su primera colección de ensayos, se convirtió rápidamente en un clásico contemporáneo que ha tenido una gran influencia en el pensamiento sobre el arte y la cultura actuales, no solo circunscrita a Estados Unidos. Además del ensayo que le da título y el famoso «Notas sobre lo "camp"», Contra la interpretación y otros ensayos incluye textos originales y provocativos sobre Sartre, Simone Weil, ...