La 'Colación muy provechosa' de Fray Hernando de Talavera figura entre los primeros escritos dirigidos a la reina Isabel en el primer lustro de gobierno.
Hans-Georg Gadamer, uno de los representantes más destacados de la filosofía hermenéutica del siglo XX, nos acerca en este libro a la lírica alemana contemporánea.
Heinz Schlaffer: Georg Büchmanns "Geflügelte Worte"Konstantin Azadovski und Gabriel Superfin: Die Odyssee des "Professors" MatankinDenis Thouard: Blumenberg et l`hérmé-neutique de la lectureChristoph König: Nietzsches zweite AutorschaftMichel Espagne: Un projet de dictionnaire sino-européen des concepts critiquesNa Schädlich: Über das "bildliche Denken" als hermeneutisches Mittel in der Geschichte der chinesischen PhilologieKommentierte Bibliographie 2018/19 und Projektberichte.
Durante el último año de su vida, Pier Paolo Pasolini desarrolló una penetrante requisitoria contra los rasgos que había adquirido la sociedad italiana, a la que veía tan destruida como en 1945.
El filósofo y poeta Édouard Glissant, nacido en la isla de Martinica, es una de las voces más influyentes del pensamiento caribeño del último tercio del siglo XX.
The Iliad is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma, for which Barry Powell, one of the twenty-first century's leading Homeric scholars, has given us a magnificent new translation.
Barbara Novak is one of America's premier art historians, the author of the seminal books American Painting of the Nineteenth Century and Nature and Culture, the latter of which was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award.
This wide-ranging book argues that criticism emerged in early bourgeois society as a central feature of a "e;public sphere"e; in which political, ethical, and literary judgements could mingle under the benign rule of reason.
CUNDILL PRIZE 2018 WINNERSHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018'Enlightening, compassionate, superb' John le CarreA visionary life and times of Joseph Conrad, and of our global world, from one of the best historians writing today.
Walter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural commentators and theorists of this century, is perhaps best known for his analyses of the work of art in the modern age and the philosophy of history.
In this fascinating new exploration of Samuel Beckett's work, Pascale Casanova argues that Beckett's reputation rests on a pervasive misreading of his oeuvre, which neglects entirely the literary revolution he instigated.
A pivotal work in the history of feminism and a groundbreaking intervention into film theory, Sexuality in the Field of Vision is a brilliantly original exploration of the interface between feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory
Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism.
'The word "e;mesmerising"e; is frequently applied to memoirs, but seldom as deservedly as in the case of Girl With Dove' Financial Times'Reading is a form of escape and an avid reader is an escape artist.
An essential and definitive collection of the Nobel Prize for Literature winner's finest essays, reviews, reminiscences and interviews from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Imagination: A Very Short Introduction explores imagination as a cognitive power and an essential dimension of human flourishing, demonstrating how imagination plays multiple roles in human cognition and shapes humanity in profound ways.
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Imagination: A Very Short Introduction explores imagination as a cognitive power and an essential dimension of human flourishing, demonstrating how imagination plays multiple roles in human cognition and shapes humanity in profound ways.
A vivid account of the literary culture of the Spanish-speaking Americas from the time of Columbus to Latin American Independence, this Very Short Introduction explores the origins of Latin American literature in Spanish and tells the story of how Spanish literary language developed and flourished in the New World.
Three acclaimed works for the stage by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureWritten from 1950s to the 1970s, the three plays collected here reflect the social and political concerns of the times, and are rich with Doris Lessing's characteristic passion and incisiveness.
An intimate portrait of London intellectual life, the breakdown of a marriage and the friendship between two women, 'What You Will' draws the reader into a spellbinding world of beauty and tension.
An entertaining biography of Dickens by one of our finest actorsAcclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow captures the essence of Charles Dickens in a sparkling biography that explores the central importance of the theatre to the life of the greatest storyteller in the English language.
