De las intimidades congeladas a los marcos de guerra

Cartografías cosmopolitas: León de Greiff y la tradición literaria analyzes the poetic works of this twentieth-century Colombian writer as a manifestation of cosmopolitanism, global cultural cartographies, and a self-fashioned poetic genealogy. Ramírez Rojas approaches de Greiff’s poems as cultural maps that reveal both a desire of connectivity with the world and a need for reorganizing the imaginary library of world literature. From a self-assumed position of eccentricity, de Greiff builds a network of global connections and disputes the binary division of cultural centers and...

The volume offers a panorama of Romance-language migration literature (Castilian, Catalan, Galician) in 21st-century Spain, with special attention being paid to writers from Africa and the Middle East. It includes a comprehensive review of current research in the field, with the critical analysis of a systemized corpus of authors and works providing a solid base for future investigation.

Juana Borrero (1877 - 1896) - Modernist poet, born in Puentes Grandes, Havana, Cuba. She also excelled in painting. As a poet, she was considered a precocious girl. Her father, Esteban Borrero, was a short stories writer of and a poet; and her sister, Dulce Maria Borrero, excelled at poetry and prose. Therefore, Juana grew up in an artistic and literary atmosphere, amid literary circles and gatherings attended by other writers like Carlos Pio and Federico Uhrbach, as well as Julian del Casal. While still very young, Juana took painting classes, first with Dolores Desvernine, and later on, in...

Sherlock Holmes es un detective inglés de finales del siglo XIX que sobresale por su hábil uso de la observación, su inteligencia y el razonamiento deductivo para resolver los casos más difíciles. Creado en 1887 por el escritor escocés sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Holmes sigue siendo el detective de ficción más popular de la historia. En este libro se presentan siete historias que combinan la intriga, el misterio y la sospecha con los escenarios londinenses, las pipas y las deducciones entre el audaz detective y su leal colaborador Watson. Adéntrate en la lectura de Las aventuras de...