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

Establishing the notion of reasonable foolishness and foolish reason as a generic principle of the old French farce, Boucquey's study examines the interdependencies among four key mimetic phenomena: the demented universe of the Feast of Fools festival, the genre of the farce, Bruegel's representation of the world, and the euphoric comedies of triumphant madness created by Moliere. This reinterpretation of French farce according to the principle of a topsy-turvy world reveals the link of madness that unites the four modes of production studied, from textual linearity, through representational...

Mexican writer and philosopher Leonardo da Jandra discusses the possibility of a return to the ideals of postmodernism, drawing from a variety of theorists from Marcel Mauss to Ludwig Boltzmann, and explores concepts such as utopia--based on his experiences living on the beach in Oaxaca--as well as language and permanence.

Este libro es el fruto de una historia de amor que ha durado toda una vida. Leer es, creo, mi actividad favorita; los libros y yo hemos sido inseparables hasta donde me alcanza la memoria...Aún hoy, me angustia no tener a mano un libro, una revista, un periódico, un trozo de papel para leer... Me gusta el olor de los libros, más aún su tacto. La vida sin libros sería para mí un horror vacío. Charles Van Doren Con un maestro como Charles Van Doren, cuyo entusiasmo ha inspirado a generaciones de estudiantes, no es difícil contagiarse del placer de leer. De la mano de Van Doren...

This book analyzes the theoretical aspects of specific humoristic techniques in Gabriel Garcia Marquez. These techniques employ ranges from the use of explicit jokes, hyperbole or textual and cultural carnival, and literary resources such as irony, parody and ambiguity.