Del Arno al Magdalena presenta lecturas colombianas contemporaneas sobre la obra de Dante Alighieri, y proponer preguntas como que pueden decirle este autor y su obra a la sociedad contemporanea, como puede Dante dialogar con esa misma sociedad en un mundo atravesado por la crisis de una pandemia, los cambios economicos y sociales, la crisis de las instituciones y como ver su obra con lentes contemporaneos colombianos.
Poet George Oppen (1908-1984) and artist and writer Mary Oppen (1908-1990) were striking, exemplary, and somewhat mysterious cultural figures of the last decades of the twentieth century.
Temps superposés propose une explication claire et accessible de la structure et du fonctionnement du calendrier nahuatl, tout en explorant sa signification culturelle à travers de nombreux exemples et illustrations.
The Custom of the Castle: From Malory to Macbeth explores the enduring narrative motif of the "e;custom of the castle,"e; from its early conception by Chretien de Troyes in twelfth-century romances to its reimagining in Renaissance literature.
Reading Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction offers students, general readers, and teachers an accessible series of essays on select works by Chaucer that emphasizes how those works' deepest concerns and most fraught complexities remain urgently relevant in our present day.
American literature offers exceptional resources for understanding the complex role religion has played in the life of the culture and in the experience of its people.
The Custom of the Castle: From Malory to Macbeth explores the enduring narrative motif of the "e;custom of the castle,"e; from its early conception by Chretien de Troyes in twelfth-century romances to its reimagining in Renaissance literature.
Les Brumes du destin retrace le parcours de Said, Ali et d’autres personnages que le destin malmène au gré des mutations sociologiques et historiques et dont l’histoire personnelle se confond avec celle du pays durant la colonisation.
Par ces temps de bouleversements socio-économiques accouplés à un avenir incertain, et compte tenu des menaces climatiques et environnementales qu’il n’est plus possible d’ignorer, une relecture du monde et de la planète semblent s’imposer.
Theology After Reading explores how recent novelists, alongside certain post-War Christian theologians, appear to be challenging, inverting, reinterpreting, and sometimes even affirming, the basic questions and answers of more traditional theologians.
First published in 1923, the original blurb reads: "e;This series of studies by a distinguished neurologist and psychiatrist, who is also an accomplished writer, will stir clamorous approval and dissent.
Literary Transvaluation: From Vergilian Epic to Shakespearean Tragicomedy is a meticulous exploration of literary influence, focusing on how Shakespeares works, especially Antony and Cleopatra, engage in a profound reimagining of Vergil's Aeneid.
