Historia de la literatura en lengua alemana. Desde los inicios hasta la actualidad (2.ª edición)

Author and Professor Dr. Pablo Valdivia analyzes the contradictions and complexities of the Spanish traditional canon from a transnational approach. Valdivia explores this particular canon as a 'haunted house' by focusing on the specific dialectics of presence, absence and (in)visibilization offered in relevant case studies: Jose Ricardo Morales, Cervantes or Jesus Carrasco, among others. Under the new term of 'disinherited literature', Valdivia advocates for coining critical categories that enrich the study of Spanish texts and shed new light on their radical specificities far from biased...

Discover the key ideas, themes, and plotlines behind every case investigated by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in the famous and celebrated stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with this original, graphics-led book. Using the "Big Ideas" series' trademark combination of witty illustrations, clear graphics, and inspirational quotes, The Sherlock Holmes Book is the perfect primer for newcomers and devoted readers alike. From the first Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet, to the masterpiece that is The Hound of the Baskervilles, to the final Holmes tale The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place, The...

This book offers the first panoramic study on the development and characteristics of the literary-journalistic genre of spectator periodicals in Hispanic America and Brazil. After contextualizing these publications within the emancipation processes of 19th-century American Enlightenment, it explores the new coexistence modes and esthetics they disseminated.

La cadencia suspendida es un ritmo quebrado que avanza y se fija desde cada color encontrado en la naturaleza y en la arquitectura de la ciudad de Turín como melodía para darle forma rítmica a los espacios de la soledad. Valentina Colonna poetiza los aromas, las tonalidades, las formas, los movimientos, las transparencias para fijar su contemplación en lo cotidiano, percibido como oportunidad de lo nuevo que siempre vuelve a instalarse en la idea de que «cada estar es ausencia». El constante juego entre las palabras, la música y sus recuerdos la convierten en un testigo de su...