Utopía

De un orador de la talla de Marco Tulio Cicerón (106-43 a.C.) es lógico pensar que no se dedicara sólo a pronunciar brillantes discursos (la mayoría publicados ya en la Biblioteca Clásica Gredos), sino también a teorizar sobre la oratoria. Escrito en

Nothing can save Alex's life- that's what all the doctors say, but his mother knows it's not true. She knows that the Lost Spells of the Egyptian Book of the Dead can crack open a door to the afterlife, pulling her son back from the brink. When she uses the spells, five evil ancients -the Death Walkers- are also brought back to life, releasing an ancient evil.

By insisting that women should be equal partners, Pardo Bazán problematically adopted the patriarchal binarism that assigns women to Nature and men to Culture, but she also subverted it by denying its supplemental relationship. Her astute choice and manipulation of masculine cultural models (Realism, not Romanticism; prose, not poetry; Castilian language, not Galician) ultimately won her--despite fierce opposition--inclusion in the Spanish national canon. Furthermore, the study of her thorny relations with emerging Galician nationalism shows that her exclusion from "Galician literature" was...

One of the most intellectually and emotionally engaging of the Spanish Golden Age (seventeenth century) plays, as well as the most controversial. Taking place during the reign of King Pedro of Castile (1350¡1369), it is one of the spectacular 'honour dramas', in which the main characters confront compelling yet conflicting imperatives.