Este ensayo es el resultado de años de trato con la actividad literaria a cargo de su autor, Constantino Bértolo, uno de los críticos y editores más prestigiosos de España, y es también el resultado de la reflexión sobre algunas de las claves de dicha actividad: la escritura, la lectura y la crítica.
Este libro parte de la reflexión colectiva en torno a los estudios culturales, proyecto heterogéneo que surgió en Birmingham, Inglaterra, en la década de los años sesenta del siglo XX, el cual rápidamente se convirtió en un vasto campo de producción en torno a una gran diversidad de enfoques e intereses, en cuyo centro se situaba una clara preocupación política, pues además de su reformulación del marxismo se incorporó a los "nuevos movimientos sociales", como el feminismo, el poscolonialismo y el movimiento gay, entre otros.
Este es un ejercicio poco común en la historiografía colombiana; es una lectura comparada de periódicos de la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII y comienzos del XIX con el fin de establecer el proceso de la opinión pública moderna en varios países de la América española.
Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, The Body in Pain is a profoundly original study that has already stirred excitement in a wide range of intellectual circles.
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.
In December of 1862, having read his brother's name in a casualty list, Walt Whitman rushed from Brooklyn to the war front, where he found his brother wounded but recovering.
Novelist, scholar, journalist, statesman, and leading member of Chile's "e;Generation of 1842"e;--an intellectual movement so named for the founding of the National University--Jose Victorino Lastarria (1811-1888) lived his life at the forefront of nineteenth-century Chilean and Spanish American culture, literature, and politics.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hay un ideal de justicia en el Quijote que excede por mucho nuestras representaciones ordinarias, pues está hecho de todo lo que falta a nuestras tradicionales ideas de la justicia: generosidad para emprender día a día nuevas aventuras, magnanimidad para mantenerse rme ante las afrentas y conservar la sencillez en el éxito, apertura para el reconocimiento de los otros en sus virtudes y en sus derechos, delicadeza en el trato de las personas, fortaleza para enfrentar los miedos y las derrotas, serenidad para contener los impulsos más elementales y transformarlos en reconocimiento de la propia vulnerabilidad, disposición para la escucha y la buena deliberación.
Ikujiro Nonaka's A Dynamic Theory of Organisational Knowledge Creation outlines the creation of organisational knowledge through the constant conversion of the two types of knowledge, tacit and explicit, which Nonaka believes has the potential to guide managers' knowledge creation strategies.
Despite having no formal training in urban planning, Jane Jacobs deftly explores the strengths and weaknesses of policy arguments put forward by American urban planners in the era after World War II.
Leon Festinger's 1957 A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance is a key text in the history of psychology - one that made its author one of the most influential social psychologists of his time.
Clifford Geertz has been called 'the most original anthropologist of his generation' - and this reputation rests largely on the huge contributions to the methodology and approaches of anthropological interpretation that he outlined in The Interpretation of Cultures.
In his 1997 work Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond marshals evidence from five continents and across 13,000 years of human history in an attempt to answer the question of why that history unfolded so differently in various parts of the globe.
Haraway's 'A Cyborg Manifesto' is a key postmodern text and is widely taught in many disciplines as one of the first texts to embrace technology from a leftist and feminist perspective using the metaphor of the cyborg to champion socialist, postmodern, and anti-identitarian politics.
David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical classic that displays a powerful mastery of the critical thinking skills of reasoning and evaluation.
