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Gothic Topographies: Language, Nation Building and ‘Race’
By Matti Savolainen. 1800
In demonstrating the global reach of Gothic literatures, this collection takes up the influence of the Gothic mode in literatures…
that may be geographically remote from one another but still share related issues of minor languages, nation building, place and race. Suggesting that there is a parallel between certain motifs and themes found in the Gothic of the North (Scandinavia, Northern Europe and Canada) and South (Australia, South Africa and the US South), the essays explore the transgressions and confusion of borders and limits, whether they be linguistic, literary, generic, class-based, gendered or sexual. The volume includes essays on a wide diversity of authors and topics: Jan Potocki, Gustav Meyrink, William Godwin, Alan Hollinghurst, Marlene van Niekerk, John Richardson, antislavery discourse and the Gothic imagination, the Australian aboriginal Gothic, vampires of Post-Soviet Gothic society, Danish, Swedish and Finnish fiction and film, and the Canadian female Gothic and the death drive. What distinguishes this book from other collections on the Gothic is the coverage of themes and literatures that are either lacking in the mainstream research on the Gothic or are referred to only briefly in other book-length studies. Experts in the Gothic and those new to the field will appreciate the book's commitment to situating Gothic sensibilities in an international context.The number and popularity of novels that have overtly reconfigured aspects of classic American texts suggests a curious trend for…
both readers and writers, an impulse to retell and reread books that have come to define American culture. This book argues that by revising canonical American literature, contemporary American writers are (re)writing an American myth of origins, creating one that corresponds to the contemporary writer’s understanding of self and society. Informed by cognitive psychology, evolutionary literary criticism, and poststructuralism, Entzminger reads texts by canonical authors Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Alcott, Twain, Chopin, and Faulkner, and by the contemporary writers that respond to them. In highlighting the construction and cognitive function of narrative in their own and in their antecedent texts, contemporary writers highlight the fact that such use of narrative is universal and essential to human beings. This book suggests that by revising the classic texts that compose our cultural narrative, contemporary writers mirror the way human individuals consistently revisit and refigure the past through language, via self-narration, in order to manage and understand experience.This book investigates major linguistic transformations in the translation of children’s literature, focusing on the English-language translations of Janusz Korczak,…
a Polish-Jewish children’s writer known for his innovative pedagogical methods as the head of a Warsaw orphanage for Jewish children in pre-war Poland. The author outlines fourteen tendencies in translated children’s literature, including mitigation, simplification, stylization, hyperbolization, cultural assimilation and fairytalization, in order to analyse various translations of King Matt the First, Big Business Billy and Kaytek the Wizard. The author then addresses the translators’ treatment of racial issues based on the socio-cultural context. The book will be of use to students and researchers in the field of translation studies, and researchers interested in children’s literature or Janusz Korczak.In an unusual merging of academic and literary practices, this volume attempts to identify a form (or forms) that is…
congenial with the subject of interrogation: the world in transition, with South Africa as the main focal point. Approaching anthropology from the position of the literary writer, Oscar Hemer here takes the reader through a kaleidoscope of perspectives—a stream-of-consciousness understanding of “writing the city” of Johannesburg, embedding ethnography in subjectivity; a challenge to binaries both temporal and gendered in examining the growth of the IT metropolis Bangalore to a combusting mega-city; an auto-ethnographic interweaving of fictional reportage with a close-reading of anthropological and philosophical treatises, including Mary Douglas’s Purity and Danger and Edouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation, among others—to interrogate themes of transition, identity, purity and variation in the Western Cape. As the form transcends boundaries to create a methodological hybrid, creolization comes to the fore as a theoretical concept and as cultural practice.Ni se les ocurra disparar
By Javier Marías. 1975
Javier Marías, además de un inmenso escritor, es para muchos un punto de referencia en el análisis de la actualidad,…
y su columna dominical es una de las más leídas y comentadas de la prensa española. Ni se les ocurra disparar recoge cerca de un centenar de artículos publicados por Javier Marías entre 2009 y 2011 en El País Semanal. Con una prosa elegante, franca y sin ambages, que no necesita adornos para alcanzar la conciencia del lector con un disparo certero, para remover sus entrañas o, al contrario, reconfortarlo, el autor nos presenta su particular percepción del mundo y de su entorno. En esta recopilación encontramos al Javier Marías más cercano y reflexivo, preocupado por la realidad que lo rodea. La sumisión y deliberada idiotización de las sociedades contemporáneas, la irresponsabilidad e ineptitud de los políticos, las vicisitudes de la creación artística o la evocación de mundos perdidos y fugazmente recuperados son algunos de los temas sobre los que el gran novelista nos ofrece su mirada más sincera y personal.Mitologías
By Manuel Vicent. 1999
Héroes, mitos, leyendas literarias... Con gran fuerza expresiva y desde una mirada cáustica, Manuel Vicent demuestra de nuevo su maestría…
a la hora de realizar retratos literarios. El lector que se aventure en esta galería de retratos, Mitologías de Manuel Vicent, se hallará ante una serie de personajes excepcionales, magnéticos, pero de carne y hueso. En este recorrido alternativo por la historia de la creación literaria y artística, Manuel Vicent pasa del glamour de Andy Warhol a la desdicha de Cézanne o Billie Holliday. Artistas malditos, autodestructivos y abocados a un final trágico como Modigliani o Montgomery Clift contrastan con los que, como Billy Wilder o Sinatra, supieron controlar su destino y alcanzar la felicidad. La honestidad y el compromiso de personajes como Yves Montand o Zenobia Camprubí chocan con la doblez de personajes como el falsificador Van Meegeren o el espía doble Anthony Blunt...Medianoche en México: El descenso de un periodista a las tinieblas de un país en guerra
By Alfredo Corchado. 2013
Un periodista sigue la pista de diversos cárteles de la droga en México, hasta que su propia vida es puesta…
en predicamento. Es medianoche en México, 2007. Alfredo Corchado recibe una llamada telefónica de su fuente principal para informarle que hay un plan para asesinarlo por parte de un poderoso capo. Pronto averigua que lo quieren matar porque uno de sus artículos en el Dallas Morning News afectó los sobornos que los narcotraficantes entregan a policías, militares y funcionarios del gobierno mexicano. Así comienza el viaje en espiral de un hombre que busca descifrar la compleja situación del país mientras lucha por salvar su vida. A pesar de recorrer un camino de múltiples encrucijadas, desigualdad y violencia extrema, Corchado, "infectado con la enfermedad incurable del periodismo", no se resigna a abandonar la esperanza en tiempos turbulentos. Ahora, el líder del brutal cártel que lo perseguía, el Z-40, está detenido, pero la historia no haterminado de escribirse. "Este libro habla sobre las sangrientas fronteras que dividen los dos países de Alfredo Corchado -México y Estados Unidos- y que han regido su propia vida. Con el telón de fondo de la terrible y violenta guerra contra las drogas que ha convertido a México en una tierra de sepulcros, Corchado comparte su propia historia y la de su familia de manera conmovedora, honesta y aguda." -JON LEE ANDERSON, autor de Che Guevara, una vida revolucionaria "Un sutil y conmovedor testimonio que servirá a cualquiera que desee entender a México desde sus profundidades y cómo es afectado -legal e ilegalmente- por Estados Unidos." -JOHN WOMACK JR., autor de Rebelión en Chiapas "Alfredo Corchado es el tipo de reportero y escritor que nos hace recuperar la fe en el periodismo." -TRACY KIDDER, Premio Pulitzer, autor de La fuerza de lo que quedaIrish Literature in Transition, 1830–1880: Volume 3 (Irish Literature in Transition)
By Matthew Campbell. 2020
Ireland's experience in the nineteenth century was quite different from that of Victorian Britain. Its fictions were written in differing…
forms – like the gothic or historical novel – and its poetry and drama were populated with ballad and song. Its writers were by turns nationalist or unionist, anglophile or de-anglicising. If the effects of Famine and emigration were catastrophic for mid-nineteenth-century Irish culture, they initiated a literary story that spread across the diaspora. Despite the decline of spoken Irish, literature continued to be published, while scholarly endeavours such as translation or the Ordnance Survey preserved much from the Gaelic past. This rich volume examines the many forms of new writing that thrived throughout this period. Utilizing a thematic and historical approach, it addresses a broad anglophone readership in Victorian literature. Essays consider the Irish authors in America and India, women's writing, and the resilience of Irish literature before the revival.This book is a major re-appraisal of the Commedia as originally envisaged by Dante: as a work of ethics. Privileging…
the ethical, Corbett increases our appreciation of Dante's eschatological innovations and literary genius. Drawing upon a wider range of moral contexts than in previous studies, this book presents an overarching account of the complex ordering and political programme of Dante's afterlife. Balancing close readings with a lucid overview of Dante's Commedia as an ethical and political manifesto, Corbett cogently approaches the poem through its moral structure. The book provides detailed interpretations of three particularly significant sins - pride, sloth, and avarice - and the three terraces of Purgatory devoted to them. While scholars register Dante's explicit confession of pride, the volume uncovers Dante's implicit confession of sloth and prodigality (the opposing subvice of avarice) through Statius, his moral cypher.The Beats: A Literary History (Cambridge Companions To Literature Ser.)
By Steven Belletto. 2020
Kerouac. Ginsberg. Burroughs. These are the most famous names of the Beat Generation, but in fact they were only the…
front line of a much more wide-ranging literary and cultural movement. This critical history takes readers through key works by these authors, but also radiates out to discuss dozens more writers and their works, showing how they all contributed to one of the most far-reaching literary movements of the post-World War II era. Moving from the early 1940s to the late 1960s, this book explores key aesthetic and thematic innovations of the Beat writers, the pervasiveness of the Beatnik caricature, the role of the counterculture in the post-war era, the involvement of women in the Beat project, and the changing face of Beat political engagement during the Vietnam War era.Chiapas
By Carlos Montemayor. 1997
Chiapas. La rebelión indígena es una revisión extraordinaria de Carlos Montemayor en torno a la guerrilla, los movimientos sociales, el…
ejército, la forma en que el gobierno ha enfrentado a la movilización y la cosmovisión de los pueblos indígenas en Chiapas. Este libro está dedicado al estudio del origen, desarrollo, consolidación y aparición pública del movimiento guerrillero zapatista en el estado de Chiapas, estudiando sus vínculos con otros grupos armados y la singularidad que lo caracteriza: a diferencia de otros movimientos armados en las décadas de los setentas y ochentas, el Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional se conforma principalmente por movimientos indígenas radicalizados ante la pobreza del Estado y la falta de oportunidades para la población. El autor estudia documentos de fuentes oficiales, así como periodísticos y de otras fuentes. Examina el desarrollo del conflicto desde enero de 1994 hasta 1998, tanto las acciones del Gobierno Federal, y de los zapatistas, así como de la Sociedad Civil. Esta edición cuenta con nuevos apéndices y reajustes, por lo que supera y actualiza la primera edición.Empresarios oprimidos
By Gabriel Zaid. 1995
Hacen falta empresarios creadores de empresarios. Que separen sus operaciones separables. Que favorezcan el desarrollo, no a la absorción o…
estrangulación, de proveedores y contratistas. Que vendan todo lo que hace falta para la producción de buena calidad en pequeña escala. En la crisis actual los empresarios se encuentran ante una oportunidad extraordinaria para multiplicarse y mostrar lo que realmente pueden hacer por la sociedad. "Un puesto de tacos le conviene más al país que un puesto burocrático, pero los altos funcionarios suponen que sus propios empleos son el modelo al que aspira la humanidad. Sus buenas intenciones perpetúan la pobreza. Muchos anhelos de justicia han pintado a los pobres como asalariados oprimidos por empresarios desalmados. Son más bien empresarios oprimidos por asalariados bien intencionados que no saben verlos ni apoyarlos como empresarios. Desafiando las ideas empleocéntricas convencionales, Zaid ve la solución en los pobres como empresarios." Enrique Krauze "De los ensayistas mexicanos que escriben sobre el desarrollo, Gabriel Zaid tiene el ojo más certero y el punto de vista más fresco. Ecléctico y pragmático, descarta la ideología para concentrarse en las ideas que funcionen y ofrezcan una esperanza razonable de mejoría social o económica." Martin S. Staab, The dissenting voice: The new essay of Spanish America, 1960-1985 Esta nueva versión de Hacen falta empresarios creadores de empresarios conserva 23 capítulos y añade 33, todos revisados.Irish Literature in Transition, 1880–1940: Volume 4 (Irish Literature in Transition)
By Marjorie Howes. 2020
The years between 1880 and 1940 were a time of unprecedented literary production and political upheaval in Ireland. It is…
the era of the 1916 Easter Rising, the Irish Revival, and a time when many major Irish writers - Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, Lady Gregory - profoundly impacted Irish and World Literature. Recent research has uncovered new archives of previously neglected texts and authors. Organized according to multiple categories, ranging from single author to genre and theme, this volume allows readers to imagine multiple ways of re-mapping this crucial period. The book incorporates different, even competing, approaches and interpretations to reflect emerging trends and current debates in contemporary scholarship. As ongoing research in the field of Irish studies discovers new materials and critical strategies for interpreting them, our sense of Irish literary history during this period is constantly shifting. This volume seeks to capture the richness and complexity of the years 1880-1940 for our current moment.This volume explores the history of Irish writing between the Second World War (or the 'Emergency') in 1939 and the…
re-emergence of violence in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. It situates modern Irish writing within the contexts of cultural transition and transnational connection, often challenging pre-existing perceptions of Irish literature in this period as stagnant and mundane. While taking into account the grip of Irish censorship and cultural nationalism during the mid-twentieth century, these essays identify an Irish literary culture stimulated by international political horizons and fully responsive to changes in publishing, readership, and education. The book combines valuable cultural surveys with focussed discussions of key literary moments, and of individual authors such as Seán O'Faoláin, Samuel Beckett, Edna O'Brien, and John McGahern.Promiscuity in Western Literature (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
By Peter Stoneley. 2020
Poet and novelist Charles Bukowski described promiscuity as "feast and feast and feast." The promiscuous person is having fun, getting…
away with it, and showing no signs of stopping. More often, though, promiscuity has been seen as demonic, as the sign of an uncivilised race, or as a symptom of mental disorder. Promiscuity in Western Literature capitalises on the fact that literature gives us deep and varied resources for reflecting on this controversial aspect of human behaviour. Drawing on authors from Homer to Margaret Atwood, it explores recurrent ideas and scenarios: Why does the literature of promiscuity evoke ideas of the animal? Why does it so often turn upon the image of the "excessive" woman? How and why does promiscuity feature in comic writing? How does the emergence of the modern city change representations of promiscuity? And, in the present day, what impact have ecological concerns had on the way writers depict promiscuity?Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons: (Opinions)
By Kurt Vonnegut. 1965
Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons is a rare opportunity to experience Kurt Vonnegut speaking in his own voice about his own life,…
his views of the world, his writing, and the writing of others. An indignant, outrageous, witty, deeply felt collection of reviews, essays, and speeches, this is a window not only into Vonnegut&’s mind but also into his heart.&“A book filled with madness and truth and absurdity and self-revelation . . . [Vonnegut is] a great cosmic comedian and rattler of human skeletons, an idealist disguised as a pessimist.&”—St. Louis Post-DispatchIncludes the following essays, speeches, and works: &“Science Fiction&” &“Brief Encounters on the Inland Waterway&” &“Hello, Star Vega&” &“Teaching the Unteachable&” &“Yes, We Have No Nirvanas&” &“Fortitude&” &“&‘There&’s a Maniac Loose Out There&’&” &“Excelsior! We&’re Going to the Moon! Excelsior!&” &“Address to the American Physical Society&” &“Good Missiles, Good Manners, Good Night&” &“Why They Read Hesse&” &“Oversexed in Indianapolis&” &“The Mysterious Madame Blavatsky&” &“Biafra: A People Betrayed&” &“Address to Graduating Class at Bennington College, 1970&” &“Torture and Blubber&” &“Address to the National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1971&” &“Reflections on my Own Death&” &“In a Manner that Must Shame God Himself&” &“Thinking Unthinkable, Speaking Unspeakable&” &“Address at Rededication of Wheaton College Library, 1973&” &“Invite Rita Rait to America!&” &“Address to P.E.N. Conference in Stockholm, 1973&” &“A Political Disease&” &“Playboy Interview&”The End of the Novel of Love
By Vivian Gornick. 1999
A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Vivian Gornick's The End of the Novel of Love…
explores the meaning of love and marriage as literary themes in the twentieth century.In The End of the Novel of Love, an acclaimed and provocative collection of criticism, Gornick applies the same intelligence, honesty, and insight that define her memoirs to an analysis of love and marriage as literary themes in the twentieth century. She examines the work and lives of several authors she admires—including Grace Paley, Willa Cather, Jean Rhys, George Meredith, Jane Smiley, Richard Ford, and Andre Dubus—to ultimately posit that love, sexual fulfillment, and marriage are now exhausted as the metaphorical expressions of success and happiness.Spanning the depths of common experience and the expanse of twentieth century literature, Gornick crafts an argument that is as defined by discourse as it is by the power of her language, which is gracefully poised between objective knowledge and subjective experience. In these eleven essays, she comes to see that, for most writers, like most readers, it is the drama of our angry and frightened selves in the presence of love that is our modern preoccupation. The End of the Novel of Love is a strikingly original and thought-provoking collection from a canonical critic.These empowering essays from leading women writers examine the power of the gendered language that is used to diminish women…
-- and imagine a more liberated world.Words matter. They wound, they inflate, they define, they demean. They have nuance and power. "Effortless," "Sassy," "Ambitious," "Aggressive": What subtle digs and sneaky implications are conveyed when women are described with words like these? Words are made into weapons, warnings, praise, and blame, bearing an outsized influence on women's lives -- to say nothing of our moods.No one knows this better than Lizzie Skurnick, writer of the New York Times' column "That Should be A Word" and a veritable queen of cultural coinage. And in Pretty Bitches, Skurnick has rounded up a group of powerhouse women writers to take on the hidden meanings of these words, and how they can limit our worlds -- or liberate them. From Laura Lipmann and Meg Wolizer to Jennifer Weiner and Rebecca Traister, each writer uses her word as a vehicle for memoir, cultural commentary, critique, or all three. Spanning the street, the bedroom, the voting booth, and the workplace, these simple words have huge stories behind them -- stories it's time to examine, re-imagine, and change.Los demasiados libros (Colección Argumentos/anagrama Ser. #Vol. 183)
By Gabriel Zaid. 1996
Reflexión aguda, sensata, amorosa que deben leer lectores, autores, editores, libreros... Una nueva edición, corregida y aumentada. Hay en la…
experiencia de leer una felicidad y libertad que resultan adictivas. La lectura libera. Se extiende a leer la vida, a leer quiénes somos y en dónde estamos. Anima las conversaciones de lector a lector. Se contagia por los lectores en acción: padres, maestros, amigos, escritores, traductores, críticos, editores, tipógrafos, libreros, bibliotecarios y otros promotores del vicio de leer. "Gabriel Zaid es capaz de observar el mundo de las letras desde la perspectiva otorgada por otras disciplinas. Su gran acierto es la virtud del poeta: decir lo que oscuramente habíamos intuido sin alcanzar a formularlo en palabras. Señala que el verdadero problema del libro es que el estrato privilegiado que ha hecho estudios universitarios no lee: nunca le ha dado el golpe a la lectura, nunca ha llegado a saber realmente lo que es leer. Esto, que sepamos, nadie lo había dicho." José Emilio PachecoEl 5º evangelio: La proyección de Cristo en Federico García Lorca
By Eutimio Martín. 1954
Federico García Lorca trató de restablecer el mensaje evangélico y para ello se propuso ofrecer en su obra un quinto…
evangelio. Los escritos juveniles del poeta granadino proyectan sobre la totalidad de su obra un marcado relieve de heterodoxia sociorreligiosa encaminada a la propagación de un humanismo mesiánico. El escritor Federico García Lorca se ha impuesto la ineludible responsabilidad de ofrecer, implícito en su obra, un nuevo evangelio. Eutimio Martín, catedrático emérito de la Universidad de Aix en Provence, realiza un amplio y profundo recorrido por la obra del universal escritor. Basándose en una sólida documentación, literaria y gráfica (a menudo desconocida y a veces inédita), analiza y comenta magistralmente textos en extremo crípticos, rescata al autor del asfixiante folclorismo en que se ha visto encerrado por una crítica miope o malintencionada, desvela la decisiva influencia de Victor Hugo, la impronta cervantina, el impacto de Antonio Machado y la radical aspiración al reconocimiento de una vertiente sexual a la que en modo alguno estaba dispuesto a renunciar porque en ello le iba la pérdida de su identidad. La abultada dimensión crística de la obra de Federico García Lorca puesta en evidencia por Eutimio Martín no dejará de suscitar una enriquecedora controversia.