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The Imaginative World of William Blake
by Leo Damrosch
William Blake, overlooked in his time, remains an enigmatic figure to contemporary readers despite his near canonical status. Out of a wounding sense of alienation and dividedness he created a profoundly original symbolic language, in which words and images unite in a unique interpretation of self and society. He was a counterculture prophet whose art still challenges us to think afresh about -
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Religión, política y el Occidente moderno
by Mark Lilla
DEBATE Un ensayo agudo e implacable sobre el choque entre política y religión en las sociedades occidentales. Vivimos tiempos en los que la religión intenta con ahínco volver a gobernar territorios hace tiempo conquistados por la política. No es un afán novedoso, pero resulta preocupante cómo algunas democracias aceptan ver mermada la laicidad por la que lucharon. La mayoría de las civilizaciones -
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by Ella Berthoud and 2 more
Un original y divertido tratado de biblioterapia que condensa todo el poder curativo de la palabra escrita. ¿Qué tal una dosis de las Brontë para sanar el corazón roto? ¿Y una inyección de Hemingway para sobrellevar los días de resaca? El libro adecuado en el momento preciso puede cambiarnos la vida y los amantes de la literatura llevamos siglos utilizándola como tónico contra cualquier enfermedad -
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by Stanley Fish
“Like a long periodic sentence, this book rumbles along, gathers steam, shifts gears, and packs a wallop.” —Roy Blount Jr. “Language lovers will flock to this homage to great writing.”—Booklist Outspoken New York Times columnist Stanley Fish offers an entertaining, erudite analysis of language and rhetoric in this delightful celebration of the written word. Drawing on a wide range of great -
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A Manifesto for Literary Studies
"A Manifesto for Literary Studies," writes Marjorie Garber, �is an attempt to remind us of the specificity of what it means to ask literary questions, and the pleasure of thinking through and with literature. It is a manifesto in the sense that it invites strong declarations and big ideas, rather than impeccable small contributions to edifices long under construction.� Known for her timely -
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Tránsitos de la Literatura Brasileña en el Extranjero
¿Qué piensa y hace un profesor ?ya sea brasileño o no? al verse por primera vez delante de un grupo de estudiantes «extranjeros» para hablar sobre literatura brasileña? Aparentemente simple, la pregunta que sirve de punto de partida para los ensayos reunidos en este libro abre camino a una serie de otras indagaciones: ¿Quién es el profesor? ¿Cómo planificó él su primera clase? ¿Cuáles son -
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Essays and Poems on Representation in SF/F
by Jim C. Hines and 1 more
18 essays and poems on the importance of representation in science fiction and fantasy, with an introduction by author K. Tempest Bradford. Proceeds from the sale of this collection go to the Carl Brandon Society to support Con or Bust. -
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by Lope de Vega and 1 more
Lope de Vega (1562-1635), widely regarded as the architect of the drama of the Spanish Golden Age, was known by his contemporaries as the `monster of Nature' on account of his creativity as a playwright. Claiming to have written more than a thousand plays, he created plots and characters notable for their energy, inventiveness and dramatic power, and which, in contrast to French classical drama, -
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H. P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West
by S. T. Joshi
The author writes:This book began as an expansion of my essay, "H. P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West," in The Weird Tale, but very quickly became something quite different, to the degree that the two works have little save the title in common. I have always been interested in Lovecraft the philosopher, and in my Starmont Reader’s Guide to Lovecraft (1982) I attempted a very compressed account -
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by Gabriel Zaid
A los ojos del autor nada es más urgente que superar la voluntad ciega del progreso per se. Este libro pone énfasis en el caso mexicano pero aborda un fenómeno característico de la globalidad. Ofrece una recomendación concreta: el saber, el poder y el dinero han de concentrarse en organismos piramidales que abandonen el espejismo del progreso. El cielo que nos tiene prometido el progreso, no acaba
