Razón, intención y significado

Entrar a la obra de Barthes quizas no sea facil. Exige del lector al menos una cierta familiaridad con dominios muy diversos de las ciencias referidas al hombreb& Pero al mismo tiempo parece indispensable una particular disposicion de la sensibilidad para acoger esa palabra que no pocas veces habla con la pasion de la intimidad. El libro de Giordano es solo el camino hacia el saber barthesiano de la literatura. Y lo es precisamente en la medida en que no constituye una introduccion a la obra de Barthes, sino porque se habra situado desde el comienzo "en medio" de ella. La busqueda sostiene...

Recoge este volumen cinco textos clave para recorrer el viaje centenario desde el panegírico, o la reinterpretación interesada, hasta la reflexión serena y desapasionada sobre Menéndez Pelayo.

The evening that everyone has been waiting for has finally come. Heinrich Heine's "El pobre Pedro" will be performed on stage, by children for children. The young actors are getting ready for their grand entrance, while the theater-goers are streaming in. The curtain goes up and the story begins, the story of how Peter doesn't get Greta. It's dramatic, exciting, and sometimes even funny. By looking at the pictures, the reader can see how the audience reacts. They are either surprised, appaled, or amused. In his picture book for children, Peter Schössow adapts this old tale of love and...

Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, Mar�a Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832?95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. An aristocratic Californiana, she championed the rights of Mexican Americans in novels, plays, and letters. Her 1885 novel called attention to the illegal appropriation of Mexican land by the United States government, and she critiqued the political mores of America after the Civil War in light of the Mexican-American war. Her keen assessment of corporate capitalism at the end of the nineteenth...