VIRGINIA WOOLF Y EL ENSAYO MODERNISTA SOBRE LONDRES

Just as philosophy begins with doubt, life worthy of being called human begins with irony. This quote by Kierkegaard leads an essay that traces a journey through irony and its uses from Socrates to Foster Wallace, up to its use in our societies marked by "mass public conversation."

A pesar del tradicionalismo, impuesto por la politica autoritaria del regimen de Franco, en la decada de los cuarenta se inicia una abundante produccion literaria femenina en Espana. Ana Maria Matute, Carmen Martin Gaite y Elena Quiroga cuentan entre las escritoras mas representativas de este fenomeno. En este trabajo la contribucion de estas mujeres al mundo espanol de las letras se ha evaluado y analizado utilizando una seleccion de sus novelas. El analisis de este "corpus" narrativo se ha enriquecido aplicando teorias literarias desarrolladas por intelectuales de importancia en los Estados ...

In 1981, on the basis of documentary evidence, the authors identified the site of the first public theatre in Alcala de Henares, dating from the time of Cervantes. The building, which had been most recently in use as a cinema, showed evidence of four periods of dramatic activity: the original corral de comedias, an 18th century horse-shoe amphitheatre, an elliptical amphitheatre of Roman period, and the cinema. Research in archives provided a wealth of documentation up to the 19th century, covering all aspects of theatrical life, from the original contract for the construction of the corral...