Signos viejos y nuevos

Annotation Between 1605 and 1621, Quevedo wrote a sequence of five "Dreams" or "Visions" "(Suenos y discursos), in each of which he hilariously envisions Spanish society as populated by people rightfully condemned to Hell. These astonishingly witty and irreverent satires of contemporary Spanish culture, morality, prejudice and religious fanaticism, were composed in a style as allusive, elliptical and equivocal as to successfully entertain both those who barely understood their full range and import, and others who celebrated the poet's rebellious insinuations. Censorship prohibited the...

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...

Les veus dissidents s'han deixat sentir en cada fase de la història nord-americana, generant sempre instàncies de resistència al poder i posant en qüestió definicions interessades i hegemòniques de la identitat nacional. Aquest volum pretén explorar el passat, present i futur de la dissidència 'fonamentalment a partir de les seues representacions culturals' a fi d'entendre el que el passat pot dir-nos sobre la realitat nord-americana del segle XXI, al seu torn, com aquesta realitat ens ajuda a desvetllar les arrels de la seva història nacional.

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.