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Este cuarto volumen de mi serie de Retratos posee, al menos, una característica distintiva en relación a los otros tres libros ya publicados. El transcurso de tiempo comprendido en sus páginas no constituye un universo histórico completo.
"Lo que permite comprender el período que se extiende entre 1400 y 1600 como una unidad, es la fuerte conmoción a la que la cultura se ve sometida en su esfuerzo por quebrar los moldes heredados de otras épocas".
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A wide-ranging collection of essays on the importance and meaning of literature by “one of the most influential thinkers of our time” (Los Angeles Times).
In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his long and celebrated career, Umberto Eco seeks "to understand the chemistry of [his] passion" for the word. From musings on Ptolemy and "the force of the false"...
In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his long and celebrated career, Umberto Eco seeks "to understand the chemistry of [his] passion" for the word. From musings on Ptolemy and "the force of the false"...
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These letters show the development of Burke's thought in the last thirty or so years of his life, when he remained remarkably productive not only as a correspondent but as a critic and traveling scholar. Rueckert became for Burke both student and "co-conspirator," with Burke himself playing the roles of teacher, mentor, father, and peer. While Burke corresponded for many years with Malcolm Cowley, William Carlos Williams, Hugh Duncan, and others,...
5) Obra crítica
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Antología de artículos críticos, estudios y conversaciones literarias de Enrique Díez-Canedo, uno de los mejores críticos literarios en lengua española y gran traductor, cuya obra constituye un referente imprescindible a la hora de estudiar la literatura de la primera mitad del siglo xx. Realizada por Alberto Sánchez Álvarez-Insúa, científico titular de Filosofía del CSIC, la selección consta de un conjunto de artículos de crítica teatral...
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This collection of essays by the author of Lady Chatterley's Loverpresents his musings on literature, politics and philosophy in a newly restored text.
Though D. H. Lawrence was one of the great writers of the twentieth century, his works were severely corrupted by the stringent house-styling of printers and the intrusive editing of timid publishers. A team of scholars at Cambridge University Press has worked for more than thirty years to restore...
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Extrait : "Vous renvoyez en deux mots tous mes possibles dans la région des songes. Pressentiments, propriétés secrètes des nombres, pierre philosophale, influences mutuelles des astres, sciences cabalistiques, haute magie, toutes chimères déclarées telle par la certitude une et infaillible."
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L'originalité de ce livre consacré à Michel Houellebecq tient d'abord à ce qu'il est le premier ouvrage universitaire à mettre aussi nettement en valeur l'importance de la poésie dans l'oeuvre de l'écrivain, sans pour autant négliger ses romans — y compris le dernier paru à ce jour, Sérotonine, publié en 2019. Un autre de ses traits distinctifs: la perspective sociocritique adoptée par l'ensemble des collaborateurs. Les textes, placés...
10) Oberman
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Extrait : "Il ne s'est passé que vingt jours depuis que je vous écrivis de Lyon. Je n'annonçais aucun projet nouveau, je n'en avais pas ; et maintenant j'ai tout quitté, me voici sur une terre étrangère."
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Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe were masters of mystery and fantasy, but they also engaged real controversies surrounding individual health, health care practice, and biomedical research in nineteenth-century America. During this volatile era, when mesmerists, phrenologists, and other pseudoscientists reigned and "regular" physicians were just beginning to consolidate power, Hawthorne and Poe provided important critiques of experimental and...
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The collected nonfiction of the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Ironweed: "A great pleasure to read no matter what the subject" (Library Journal). When William Kennedy arrives in Barcelona, his guidebook recommends taking the trolley around town-but the trolleys haven't run in the city for years. He's on his way to interview the novelist Gabriel García Márquez when, out of the corner of his eye, he sees something impossible: a yellow trolley...
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In 1914, Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound-the founders of vorticism-undertook an unprecedented analysis of the present, its technologies, communication, politics, and architecture. The essays in Counterblasting Canada trace the influence of vorticism on Marshall McLuhan and Canadian Modernism. Building on the initial accomplishment of the magazine Blast, McLuhan's subsequent Counterblast, and the network of artistic and intellectual relationships that...
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Guy Davenport demonstrates his unparalleled critical vision as he interprets art, literature, and culture In this collection of 20 essays, Guy Davenport applies his insightful gaze and critical wisdom to topics including modern art and the effects of the automobile on contemporary society. His work ranges from "What Are Those Monkeys Doing?" in which he links the paintings of Rousseau to the writings of Rimbaud and Flaubert, to "Imaginary Americas,"...
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Alistair Cooke knew, met, interviewed, or reported on many of the most influential men and women of the twentieth century and in this collection profiles the twenty-three he considered the most remarkable In his career of more than fifty years broadcasting the BBC radio program Letter from America and as the US correspondent for the Guardian for more than twenty-five years, Alistair Cooke met and mixed with many famous people. In Memories of the Great...
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A new collection of critical and personal essays on writing, obsession, and inspiration from National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates.
"Why do we write?"
With this question, Joyce Carol Oates begins an imaginative exploration of the writing life, and all its attendant anxieties, joys, and futilities, in this collection of seminal essays and criticism. Leading her quest is a desire to understand
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The nineteenth century is often viewed as a golden age of American literature, a historical moment when national identity was emergent and ideals such as freedom, democracy, and individual agency were promising, even if belied in reality by violence and hypocrisy. The writers of this "American Renaissance"-Thoreau, Fuller, Whitman, Emerson, and Dickinson, among many others-produced a body of work that has been both celebrated and contested by following...
18) Unwanted People
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This collection of essays by the historian and activist Aviva Chomsky includes work on topics ranging from immigration, to labor history, to popular culture. Chomsky's incisive prose brings the perspective of a historian to bear on current events in a way that adds depth and nuance to topics that are of the utmost importance at this moment in world history. Unwanted People fits into Chomsky's larger project to debunk the mythical history of the United...
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Extrait: "« Joseph fut mis en prison, » c'est la première fois que ce mot se trouve dans la Genèse, mais nous le rencontrons ensuite dans presque tous les livres de Bible. Et que ce prison mot ne nous inspire pas trop d'effroi, trop d'horreur, quelque tristes que soient les idées qu'il réveille, ce sont déjà des idées de civilisation et de progrès. Vous connaissez ce bon conte d'un naufragé, qui avait parcouru, trois jours durant, la plage...
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"Karl Marx: Literary Analysis" delves into the complexities of the renowned philosopher, economist, and political theorist's work, exploring his undeniable influence on the world of literature. This book offers a unique perspective by closely examining 12 of Marx's most impactful works, revealing the connections between his revolutionary theories and the literary elements that underpin them. Each chapter is a deep dive into a specific work, highlighting...
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