JUAN RAMÓN JIMÉNEZ Y 'EL GRUPO DEL NOVECIENTOS'

Antonio Perez, the brilliant but erratic secretary to Philip II of Spain, became in the years of his exile a political agent in the service of the Earl of Essex, arriving at the Court of Queen Elizabeth in 1593. On behalf of Essex, who valued him as a friend, a partner and a humanist scholar, he cast an intelligence network over Italy; and he made a striking, though dangerous, contribution to the Essex cult.

Con la presente edición se quiere dar a conocer una selección de cuentos de Constance Fenimore Woolson, una de las escritoras más populares y admiradas del último cuarto del siglo diecinueve que, por distintas circunstancias, hasta hace unos pocos años fue una gran desconocida. Incluida dentro de lo que se conoce como literatura regionalista o de color local, Woolson fue ante todo una auténtica pionera de las letras no solo porque abordó sin complejos temas y asuntos no muy frecuentes hasta entonces en la literatura norteamericana sino, sobre todo, porque no se conformó con tratar...

When Iraqi terrorists wreak havoc on the world, White House advisor Jon Bennett must complete a billion-dollar oil deal--the basis for a historic Arab-Israeli peace treaty--or the world will face the threat of nuclear devastation.

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...