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Un libro audaz y renovador que señala un hito decisivo en la labor crítica de Umberto Eco. En este libro Umberto Eco se convierte en su propio objeto de estudio y analista de sí mismo. Acompañado de Dante, Leopardi y Joyce,e interpretando a los principales hermeneutas de sus obras, Eco replantea cuatro grandes problemas de la semiótica moderna: los «límites de la interpretación», el excesivo dispendio de «energía interpretativa», «los criterios de economía de lectura» y un ataque polémico a la «práctica de la deconstrucción». Trata así de restablecer el equilibrio entre...

This book, conceived as a tribute to Prof. Antonio Ramírez de Verger on the occasion of his retirement, contains a brief outline of his academic career, a complete list of his publications and a wide selection of his articles, reviews and book chapters published over four decades. These writings examine a variety of authors, such as Fronto, Corippus, Maximianus, Tibullus, Horace, Virgil, Tacitus, Catullus, Propertius, Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Ovid and Martial, and they also include contributions on various philological topics. El libro, concebido como homenaje al Prof. Ramírez de Verger...

This study breaks new ground in García Márquez studies by focusing on the author's journalistic writings between 1948 and 1955. By using a combination of modern critical methods, including narratology, dialogism and transtextuality, this study shows how García Márquez' early journalism laid the foundations for his later fiction writing. This work provides an exhaustive, coherent and comprehensive analysis of a neglected area of the Colombian author's writing. This study shows that García Márquez is a bigeneric writer, a journalist-fiction writer, who constantly combines genres in his...

The Five are thrilled when they befriend an actual pilot while on vacation. They become quite dismayed when some top secret material goes missing and they must entertain the notion that their new friend could be a spy!