La transición demográfica y los efectos de algunas enfermedades prolongadas hacen pensar en programas y políticas apropiadas que contribuyan a mantener a las personas sanas e independientes con los años.
Este volumen reúne el trabajo de los miembros del proyecto de investigación "Tipologías de la intertextualidad en la literatura latina" —subsidiado por la Secretaría de Ciencia y Técnica (SECyT) de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba— con la intención de difundir las investigaciones realizadas por docentes-investigadores, becarios y estudiantes sobre una problemática central dentro de los estudios clásicos: la 'intertextualidad' o, como la definieron los romanos, imitatio ('imitación').
En esta serie de ensayos, Óscar Quezada Macchiavello construye una mirada que interpela el sentido de fenómenos socioculturales y textos artísticos desde la semiótica y la filosofía.
Este libro forma parte de una nueva línea editorial y, de hecho, inaugura la colección "La casa de fuego" que busca forjar un catálogo de poesía hispanoamericana contemporáneo.
Este libro ofrece un panorama de diversas prácticas literarias experimentales en Chile en el nuevo milenio, pero sobre todo propone un modelo crítico y teórico para abordarlas.
A groundbreaking history of the political ideas that made modern IndiaViolent Fraternity is a major history of the political thought that laid the foundations of modern India.
Alexander the Great, according to Plutarch, carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad, kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ideological level, ancient Romans looked to the Aeneid as an argument for imperialism.
How the concept of ';deep time' began as a metaphor used by philosophers, poets, and naturalists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuriesIn this interdisciplinary book, Noah Heringman argues that the concept of ';deep time'most often associated with geological epochsbegan as a metaphorical language used by philosophers, poets, and naturalists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to explore the origins of life beyond the written record.
The classic bestselling Chinese novel spanning four decades following the creation of the People's Republic in 1949, translated into English for the first time.
This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism.
This account of a bestselling author's suicide is ';part biography, part detective story, part memoir of a thorny but enduring friendship' (Molly Worthen, author of Apostles of Reason).
What if the traditional narrative about immigrant women--that those who come to the United States will succeed as long as they work hard, stay focused, and have supportive families--is a lie?
Raising Amazing combines years of research with personal stories and step-by-step, practical advice to equip you to raise kids of godly character and deep faith who love their parents and remain close to their siblings for a lifetime.
Inspire your students to develop their knowledge of the hospitality and catering industry and improve their cooking skills with this new textbook from the UK's Number 1 Hospitality & Catering publisher*.
Fascinating profiles of modern writers and artists who tapped the political potential of fairy talesJack Zipes has spent decades as a "e;scholarly scavenger,"e; discovering forgotten fairy tales in libraries, flea markets, used bookstores, and internet searches, and he has introduced countless readers to these remarkable works and their authors.
A classic of British cultural studies, Profane Culture takes the reader into the worlds of two important 1960s youth cultures-the motor-bike boys and the hippies.
A seminal figure in American literature and philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson is considered the apostle of self-reliance, fully alive within his ideas and disarmingly confident about his innermost thoughts.
The skirmish between painting and poetry-from Plato and Praxiteles to Rembrandt and ShakespeareWhy do painters sometimes wish they were poets-and why do poets sometimes wish they were painters?
The first book to address the historical failures of philosophy-and what we can learn from themPhilosophers are generally unaware of the failures of philosophy, recognizing only the failures of particular theories, which are then remedied with other theories.
Soren Kierkegaard, the nineteenth-century Danish philosopher rediscovered in the twentieth century, is a major influence in contemporary philosophy, religion, and literature.
Ausgehend von den Rändern der gegenwärtigen literarischen Praxis wirft Annette Gilberts komparatistische Studie neues Licht auf eine zentrale Kategorie der Literatur(wissenschaft): das Werk als pragmatische Instanz literarischer Kommunikation.
