Seis siglos de poesía española escrita por mujeres

A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. “The most interesting ideas are heresies,” she remarked, and indeed, her writing rejects the familiar and refuses party lines. On Women presents seven essays and exchanges, spanning a range of subjects: the challenges and humiliations women face as they age; the relationship between women’s liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag...

Larry and Agatha are sent to Japan to protect Goro Saitama, an extremely popular writer of Manga. Someone is trying to steal his latest creation. Will the two young detectives be able to unmask the thief?

"Son muchos años los que este urbanista y escritor (¿o al revés?) ha dedicado al asunto, en medio de una vasta obra especializada. Sus libros me proponen siempre la misma pregunta, ¿hay algo que no haya leído Almandoz en cuanto al imaginario de la ciudad desplegado en la literatura venezolana? Seguramente, pero cuando creo estar a punto de reconocer un vacío se completa páginas después, y es que trabaja con la parsimonia y la prolijidad del investigador para quien todo puede ser de interés para ampliar, circundar, iluminar el objeto propuesto, y así, con una prosa detallada (y...

A study of the relationship betwen court festivity and theatre in 16c Spain. Dr Ferrer Valls studies the relationship between court festivity and theatre in the sixteenth century, placing special emphasis on staging. She argues that throughout the reign of Philip II court spectacle perpetuates the complicated staging of traditional performances, but with greater emphasis on their dramatic aspects and on the use of music and song. In the first two decades of the seventeenth century, and above all in specific plays by Lope de Vega, court spectacles come to reflect also the influence of Italian...