Mark Twain, o el sentimiento trágico del humor

Este conjunto de estudios replantea la construcción o invención de América en la fecha fundacional de 1492, que marca el inicio del desarrollo del capitalismo y la modernidad europeos. Los quince artículos aquí reunidos exploran las invenciones desde diversas perspectivas: análisis de los relatos maestros, aspectos de representación del Otro, la retórica de las ciudades americanas. La variedad de puntos de vista questiona la palabra invención, a la vez que desmonta las ficciones que surgieron a partir de aquella fecha. El conjunto plantea cuestionamientos plurales y...

This book is written in Spanish. This book is a study of the intellectual and cultural atmosphere surrounding the Spanish author don Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645) during his stay at the Courts of Palermo and Naples (1613-1619) in the service of the Viceroy Duke of Osuna. Attention is paid particularly to his early knowledge of the works of the poet Marino, his role as protector of the Arts, and as intercessor on behalf of the philosopher Campanella. The second part of the book offers a detailed analysis of the author's writings during his Italian and post-Italian years as a result of his...

The author of short stories, novels and essays, Benítez Rojo is an atypical intellectual in the panorama of Cuban exile because he offers an original perspective of the past, present and future conflicts of this troubled and complex area. This literary biography tells of his journey from his emergence in the Cuban intellectual world in 1967 to his death in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2005.

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...