La literatura cubana del exilio

LA obra de Pablo García Baena, iniciada en 1946 con Rumor oculto y mantenida hasta ahora mismo con un alto grado de exigencia estética y una admirable vitalidad (Los Campos Elíseos, de 2006, es su más reciente entrega), ocupa un lugar de relieve en la tradición de la poesía española de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Dueño de una depurada y plástica imaginería barroca y andaluza, de una sensualidad rítmica que fluye al paso lento del versículo, sus poemas despliegan las potencialidades figurativas y simbólicas de un lenguaje en el que elementos culturales, literarios, religiosos y ...

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.

The evening that everyone has been waiting for has finally come. Heinrich Heine's "El pobre Pedro" will be performed on stage, by children for children. The young actors are getting ready for their grand entrance, while the theater-goers are streaming in. The curtain goes up and the story begins, the story of how Peter doesn't get Greta. It's dramatic, exciting, and sometimes even funny. By looking at the pictures, the reader can see how the audience reacts. They are either surprised, appaled, or amused. In his picture book for children, Peter Schössow adapts this old tale of love and...

A romance between a priest and a nun-in-training leads to her pregnancy and his suicide. She is Gabriella Harrison, daughter of parents who abandoned her to a convent. The affair leads to her expulsion and she becomes a writer.