Poemas

Añadir uno más a los múltiples estudios sobre don Juan quizá parezca tarea innecesaria o vanidosa. A veces pienso que don Juan, junto a su lista de mujeres seducidas, pudiera presentar otra, más larga si cabe, de críticos seducidos por sus andanzas. Mas no sobre don Juan sólo. Pues las figuras que rondan en torno suyo, singularmente las mujeres y el Comendador, lo determinan de tal modo que sin ellas se volatizaría. Don Juan es un mito y, como tal, un objeto de fantasia o deseo, no ya del autor o del lector, sino de aquellos otros personajes que con él se rozan. Aparente...

An anthology of Spanish women writers from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century. Water Lilies brings to light a rich & until now, largely invisible version of Spanish literary history. These hard-to-find works, most translated for the first time, are printed on facing pages in Spanish & English & are located within a critical, biographical & historical overview.

How Far is America From Here? approaches American nations and cultures from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It is very much at the heart of this comparative agenda that “America” be considered as a hemispheric and global matter. It discusses American identities relationally, whether the relations under discussion operate within the borders of the United States, throughout the Americas, and/or worldwide. The various articles here gathered interrogate the very notion of “America”: which, whose America, when, why now, how? What is meant by “far”—distance,...

Alek and Deryn encounter obstacles on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek's throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love.