Literary studies: general

Desde tiempos inmemoriales, los mitos y las leyendas han acompañado a la historia de España, a veces haciéndole sombra o incluso suplantándola.

A profoundly affirming book about the potential for literature .

Pizza, pasta, tiramisu - surely these can't feature in a healthy low-carb diet!

Noting Voices: Contemplating London's Culture is author Haseeb Iqbal's take on the bubbling 'London Jazz Scene' and live music explosion that has consumed the capital in recent years.

Figuren des Akrobatischen sind in der Literatur der Moderne omnipräsent.

Esta historia sobre la temprana colonización de Virginia (siglos XVI-XVII) describe la evolución de estos territorios desde su concepción como un nuevo paraíso ultramarino, poniendo en relación las expectativas imperiales y la dinámica histórica del primer asentamiento inglés en el espacio norteamericano, hasta su transformación en un infierno colonial a causa de la resistencia de los nativos.

Emilia Pardo Bazán fue, en sus propias palabras, una "radical feminista".

In Sex Lives, Joseph Gamble draws from literature, art, and personal testimonies from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe to uncover how early moderns learned to have sex.

Immer laut, niemals leise: die Geschichte des Lärms vom Urknall bis heute!

Eine eindrucksvolle Reise in die widersprüchliche Welt von Treue und Untreue.

Bereits seit einigen Jahren wird dem Wissen fiktionaler Literatur in den Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften verstärkte Aufmerksamkeit zuteil.

Eine eindrucksvolle Reise in die widersprüchliche Welt von Treue und Untreue.

'Gender - Medien – Screens' beschäftigt sich mit (De-)Konstruktionen von Geschlecht, die mittels Screens verbreitet werden.

*A Times, Telegraph, TLS and Prospect Book of the Year**Winner of the 2024 PEN/ Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography* The best book I've read on George Eliot John Carey, Sunday TimesAn exceptional new biography that shows how George Eliot wrestled with the question of marriage, in art and lifeWhen she was in her mid-thirties, Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot - an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel.

A practical guide to building the ultimate immune system naturally*; Explores specific immune-boosting essential oils, herbs, and mushrooms in depth, revealing their multilayered effectiveness in supporting health*; Discusses probiotics and specific foods that boost immunity, as well as foods common in the modern diet that can temporarily put the immune system out of commission*; Looks at behaviors that can sabotage your immune system as well as the best habits for maintaining super-powered immunity for lifeViruses and superbugs have become a part of day-to-day living, but that doesn't mean you have to live in fear of catching one.

Este volumen es un homenaje al legado literario de Teresa de Jesús, atendiendo a los tres parámetros que forman su título: la santidad, celebrada de forma expresa en las ceremonias y consiguientes fiestas de canonización; la escritura, a través de diversos aspectos del estilo de la abulense; y el legado, materializado en la obra de las primeras carmelitas.

Schmerzen im Nacken, im Lendenbereich, am Ischiasnerv sind die häufigsten Beschwerden:Halswirbelsäulen-Syndrom (HWS),Brustwirbelsäulen-Syndrom (BWS) oderLendenwirbelsäulen-Syndrom (LWS)Vermeiden Sie Medikamente mit Nebenwirkungen oder unnötige Operationen.

Hasta hace relativamente poco tiempo, la investigación histórica de carácter profesional se realizaba en nuestro país con independencia de la literatura llamada de ficción y sobre la base de una concepción epistemológica ceñida al discurso cientificista de las grandes escuelas y dogmas historiográficos del siglo XX, que privilegiaban el acercamiento de la historia a las ciencias sociales y al método empírico-inductivo de las ciencias duras.

The Hebrew word zimzum originally means "e;contraction,"e; "e;withdrawal,"e; "e;retreat,"e; "e;limitation,"e; and "e;concentration.

Anthropologist Kristen Ghodsee looks at pioneering experiments in communal living to present a rousing argument for rethinking what we mean by home.

Todos sabemos que el secreto de una vida auténtica depende de la atención que prestemos a nuestra alma.

"Un libro hecho con ejemplar dedicación, enhebrado entre la reivindicación de nuestra herencia cultural e identitaria, la Inquisición en la historia y, más que nada, con profundo afecto a la tierra nutricia y con un sentimiento de nostalgia, hilo que vincula pretérito y presente y se proyecta a lo venidero, por sobre todas las incertidumbres.

Yacuana, Barrig6n, Banderas, Manzanares, Puerto Alfonso.

El pasado y el presente se entrecruzan, juegan, se desafían en un ida y vuelta entre lo residual y lo emergente.

La América Indígena decimonónica desde nueve miradas y perspectivas viene a sumarse a una historiografía latinoamericanista que busca encontrar en lo comparativo procesos que afectaron a aquellos países que cuentan con un alto porcentaje de población indígena en sus territorios.

Distinguished historian Richard W.

La comedia calderoniana El postrer duelo de España se basa en hechos históricos ocurridos en diciembre de 1522 en Valladolid; el 29 de ese mes se celebró el último duelo judicial entre dos caballeros aragoneses: don Pedro Torrellas y don Jerónimo Ansa.

Este libro recoge las líneas de fuerza de lo fantástico en la narrativa española del siglo XXI, momento en el que un nutrido grupo de escritores renueva los axiomas fundacionales del género para seguir inquietando a los lectores.

A valuable resource for readers exploring the classic horror genre, this book presents primary source documents alongside analysis in an examination of the social, political, and economic factors reflected in 19th century Gothic literature.

';Bloodknots is a truly singular and remarkable book of stories.

Reversing Babel: Translation among the English during an Age of Conquests, c.

Medieval Venuses and Cupids analyses the transformations of the love deities in later Middle English Chaucerian poetry, academic Latin discourses on classical myth (including astrology, natural philosophy, and commentaries on classical Roman literature), and French conventions that associate Venus and Cupid with Ovidian arts of love.

With its dominance as a European power and the explosion of its prose and dramatic writing, Spain provided an irresistible literary source for English writers of the early modern period.

Medieval courtiers defined themselves in ceremonies and rituals.

Following Hegel's analysis of art's increasing difficulty to both engage and extricate itself from prosaic reality, Paul Fleming investigates the strategies employed by German literature from 1750 to 1850 for increasingly attuning itself to quotidian life-common heroes, everyday life, non-extraordinary events-while also avoiding all notions of mediocrity.

In recent years, the study and teaching of Native American oral and written art have flourished.

The Souls of Mixed Folk examines representations of mixed race in literature and the arts that redefine new millennial aesthetics and politics.

For centuries, a central goal of art has been to make us see the world with new eyes.

The 1930s marked a turning point for the world.

Literary studies in the postwar era have consistently barred attributing specific intentions to authors based on textual evidence or ascribing textual presences to the authors themselves.

What does it mean to belong?

Notework begins with a striking insight: the writer's notebook is a genre in itself.

There is a tendency to think of Korean American literature-and Asian American literature writ large-as a field of study involving only two spaces, the United States and Korea, with the same being true in Asian studies of Korean Japanese (Zainichi) literature involving only Japan and Korea.

Ends of Enlightenment explores three realms of eighteenth-century European innovation that remain active in the twenty-first century: the realist novel, philosophical thought, and the physical sciences, especially human anatomy.

In the context of the ongoing crisis in literary criticism, The Social Imperative reminds us that while literature will never by itself change the world, it remains a powerful tool and important actor in the ongoing struggle to imagine better ways to be human and free.

Angelica Garnett may truly be called a child of Bloomsbury.

Most studies of Chinese literature conflate the category of the future with notions of progress and nation building, and with the utopian visions broadcast by the Maoist and post-Mao developmental state.

The history of literary and artistic production in modern Japan has typically centered on the literature and art of Tokyo, yet cultural activity in the country's regional cities and rural towns was no less vibrant.

This book argues that language and literature actively produced chance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by categorizing injuries and losses as innocent of design.

Romanticism is often synonymous with models of identity and action that privilege individual empowerment and emotional autonomy.