Encrucijada humana llega a nosotros con la intención de develar misterios, aclarar dudas sobre el acontecer diario que tanto nos agobia en plena época de pandemia y desequilibrio político y social.
El mundo como lo conocemos está cambiando, el tiempo y el espacio que habitamos parecen volverse más hostiles contra la humanidad y la visión de la vida para el hombre contemporáneo no parece ser más que un trámite presuroso.
Con la invención de la imprenta de tipos móviles para el estampado de letras y del grabado en madera y metal para las imágenes se consolidó la tecnología editorial.
El papel ha sido el principal soporte de la escritura a lo largo de la historia, por lo que los materiales y las técnicas para su elaboración se han adaptado a las necesidades, los recursos y el desarrollo cultural de cada época desde su origen, hace más de dos mil años, y durante su evolución, partiendo de China hacia otras regiones de Asia, Europa y el resto del mundo, hasta su industrialización.
The Fifth International Conference on the Ancient Novel, which was held in Houston, Texas, in the fall of 2015, brought together scholars and students of the ancient novel from all over the world in order to share new and significant developments about this fascinating field of study and its important place in the field of Classical Studies.
Despite the fact that post-modern aesthetics deny the existence or validity of genres, the tendency nowadays is to assume that there was in Antiquity a homogeneous group of works of narrative prose fiction that, despite their differences, displayed a series of recurrent, iterative, thematic, and formal characteristics, which allows us to label them novels.
India in Translation, Translation in India seeks to explore the contours of translation of and in India-how Indian texts travel around the world in translation, how Indian texts travel across languages in the subcontinent and how texts from various languages of the world travel to India.
India in Translation, Translation in India seeks to explore the contours of translation of and in India-how Indian texts travel around the world in translation, how Indian texts travel across languages in the subcontinent and how texts from various languages of the world travel to India.
India and the Traveller: Aspects of Travelling Identity, a collection of essays on travel writings related to India, focuses on the evolving persona of travelers to India as well as Indians journeying to other lands or within India.
India and the Traveller: Aspects of Travelling Identity, a collection of essays on travel writings related to India, focuses on the evolving persona of travelers to India as well as Indians journeying to other lands or within India.
Notes from a bibliophile on the lure of rare and first editions, the beauty of dust jackets, the thrill of browsing in antiquarian bookshops, the bibliomania of book thieves, movies about books, and the inner life of a reader.
In Nepal, deeply embedded structural conditions determined by gender, caste or ethnicity, religion, language, and even geography have made access to and benefits from energy resources highly uneven.
Reliable supply of 24-hour electricity in the State of Madhya Pradesh since 2014 has transformed the lives of many, including women from low-income households.
Genna Sosonko paints portraits of players, both famous and forgotten, from the golden age of Soviet chess, as well as highly personal views on the psychology of the game and its players.
The Reliable Past is the eagerly awaited sequel to Russian Silhouettes, Genna Sosonko's marvellous collection of portraits from the golden age of Soviet chess.
Obwohl nach der Verurteilung von 1277 der Lateinische Averroismus als eigenstandige Schule verschwand, entstanden dennoch in den Jahren zwischen 1280 und 1300 in Paris neue Aristoteles-Kommentare, die ein lebhaftes Interesse fur heterodoxe aristotelische Lehren bezeugen.
L’édition critique de la première question du traité (Utrum aliquis philosophus per inquisitionem philosophicam in naturali lumine ad veram humanae beatitudinis notitiam valeat pervenire) est basée sur les sept manuscrits connus, dont deux autographes.
The multicultural world of today is often said to be marked by a certain kind of exoticization: a "e;fetishizing process"e;, as Graham Huggan has called it, which separates a "e;first world"e; from a "e;third world"e;, the Occident from the Orient.
"Angesichts eines Tourismus, der zu einem gewaltigen, bedrohlichen Moloch herangewachsen ist, müssen wir eine klare, eindeutige Richtungsentscheidung treffen.
UNÜBLICHE LEBENSWEGEFünf Lebensbilder vergessener Persönlichkeiten von 1750 bis heute: Eine junge Frau tritt ins Kloster ein und wagt so einen Schritt in die Freiheit.
"Dionysos ist Energie, dazu auch Wahnsinn, Ekstase, Destruktion, er steht für das Prinzip der Metamorphose und des Wandels, er ist 'jenseits von Gut und Böse', das ist eine chthonische Kraft, die in jedem von uns pulsiert.
Die 'Gesammelten Werke' von Gottfried Keller bieten einen faszinierenden Einblick in das Schaffen eines der bedeutendsten Schweizer Schriftsteller des 19.
In the 1920s, many of Cuba's intellectuals, like Jorge Manach, were confronted with how to deal with a new postcolonial universe whose neocolonial leanings were undeniable.
Emilia Pardo Bazán fue una escritora y crítica literaria española del siglo XIX que desempeñó un papel importante en la renovación de la literatura española de su época.
