«La Ciencia Española». Estudios

Annotation Between 1605 and 1621, Quevedo wrote a sequence of five "Dreams" or "Visions" "(Suenos y discursos), in each of which he hilariously envisions Spanish society as populated by people rightfully condemned to Hell. These astonishingly witty and irreverent satires of contemporary Spanish culture, morality, prejudice and religious fanaticism, were composed in a style as allusive, elliptical and equivocal as to successfully entertain both those who barely understood their full range and import, and others who celebrated the poet's rebellious insinuations. Censorship prohibited the...

Zoe and her band hit the Big Apple. Will they be able to prevent a crazy scheme to construct apartment buildings inside the iconic Central Park? For this adventure, they will need all the help they can get!

Hijo de un comerciante de Liverpool asentado en la India, el escritor inglés Philip Meadows Taylor, nacido en 1808, publicó su primera obra, Confesiones de un asesino Thug, en 1839. No obstante esta primera entrega, en la que Meadows Taylor utiliza recursos propios de la ficción y de la literatura de aventuras para relatarnos unos poco menos que increíbles, aunque contrastados, hechos reales, su carrera literaria se centró en la novela picaresca de ambientación histórica, con títulos como Tippo Sultan, Ralph Darnell y Seeta, sobre la conquista inglesa de la India y las revueltas de...

In the past decades, with the decline of the Grand Narratives and the subsequent need for new historical and political orientation, literary studies have been reflecting on the role of literature in the world. Together with Jacques Rancière—and in dialogue with Althusser, Foucault, or Fischer-Lichte—the present volume analyzes this political turn of literary studies.