If the mere mention of Shakespeare fills you with dread, evoking memories of arduous afternoons spent in stuffy classrooms with eccentric English teachers, it is time to reconsider that far from being three-hour marathons of unintelligible boring rubbish, Shakespeare's plays are in fact exciting, tragic, funny and often downright rude - full of memorable plots, great insults, filthy jokes and eccentric characters.
Holy Terror is a profound and timely investigation of the idea of terror, drawing upon political, philosophical, literary, and theological sources to trace a genealogy from the ancient world to the modern day.
Holy Terror is a profound and timely investigation of the idea of terror, drawing upon political, philosophical, literary, and theological sources to trace a genealogy from the ancient world to the modern day.
A meditation on dying by a writer who has been compared to Proust, was much praised by Salman Rushdie and is perhaps most famous for producing very little.
En esta obra se reconocen los aspectos que vinculan la historia y la ficcion en terminos de la tension que ya se encuentra en la creacion literaria de Walter Scott.
El instituto de la Medianería es una de las cuestiones sensibles en la convivencia urbana cotidiana y doméstica entre los vecinos que son, a su vez, copropietarios de esta porción de sus respectivos inmuebles.
Esta obra expone los fundamentos de la crítica genética para proponer un abordaje particular de los manuscritos y demás materiales pre-redaccionales y redaccionales que comportan un proceso de creación, y plantea una hipótesis de lectura del libro ¡Que viva la música!
Luego de los trabajos sobre la historia del libro y de la edición en América latina que presentó en La otra cara de Jano, José Luis de Diego, uno de los mayores especialistas argentinos en la materia, se propone aquí retomar ciertos objetos de investigación y agregar otros con la virtuosa intención de encarar la historia desde diferentes perspectivas.
"e;Ex-Centric Souths: (Re)Imagining Southern Centers and Peripheries"e; adds a voice in ongoing attempts to chart new routes and to decenter the South in many ways in the hope of exploring Southern identity and multiple Souths.
Este libro pretende desarrollar un objeto crítico específico (delimitado en su momento por Edward Said y Roland Barthes), los relatos y los dispositivos de comienzo en las ficciones, estudiando tres grandes modalidades al respecto: origen, infancia, comienzos de escritura.
Doce ensayos que desde la filosofía, la comunicación y el arte indagan en las transformaciones que la narrativa audiovisual ha tenido en el contexto digital y de Internet Paula Sibilia, Mauricio Durán y Sergio Roncallo, entre otros investigadores, analizan casos como la exhibición de la intimidad, la noción del autor o el uso del video como resistencia social
Contemporary fiction is a wide and diverse field, now global in dimension, with an enormous range of novels and writers that continues to grow at a fantastic speed.
This acclaimed short study, originally published in 1983, and now thoroughly updated, elucidates the varied theoretical contributions of Roland Barthes (1915-80), the 'incomparable enlivener of the literary mind' whose lifelong fascination was with the way people make their world intelligible.
To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or abused)?
Contemporary fiction is a wide and diverse field, now global in dimension, with an enormous range of novels and writers that continues to grow at a fantastic speed.
Entdecken Sie die verborgene Welt des Widerstands: "Kunst & Literatur in der DDR – Widerstand zwischen den Zeilen"Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende und bewegende Geschichte der DDR, wie sie Ihnen noch nie erzählt wurde.
To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or abused)?
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringPoststructuralism challenges traditional ways of thinking about human beings and our relation to the world.
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.
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringPoststructuralism challenges traditional ways of thinking about human beings and our relation to the world.
The heritage of literature in the French language is rich, varied, and extensive in time and space; appealing both to its immediate public, readers of French, and also to a global audience reached through translations and film adaptations.
The heritage of literature in the French language is rich, varied, and extensive in time and space; appealing both to its immediate public, readers of French, and also to a global audience reached through translations and film adaptations.
Postcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing the anti-colonial deconstruction of western dominance.
