Poesía italiana. La lengua incansable

A dazzling sampler, Water Lilies brings to light a rich and until now largely invisible version of Spanish literary history. These hard-to-find works, most translated for the first time, are printed on facing pages in Spanish and English and located within a critical, biographical, and historical overview.

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...

Izzy is always shuffling, jiggling, squirming and twitching. She just can't keep still! So when Izzy's school go on a trip to the zoo, her teacher warns her to behave. She must never wriggle, she must never fidget and she must certainly NEVER TICKLE A TIGER! But does Izzy listen? She does NOT - and what happens next throws the zoo into complete chaos. With eye-catching illustrations by the internationally acclaimed bestselling illustrator, Marc Boutavant, Never Tickle a Tiger will amaze and delight children and parents alike! It includes a spectacular double gatefold for the grand chaotic...

La obra de Jose Martí ha recibido en las últimas décadas numerosos acercamientos críticos desde puntos de vista muy diferentes, ya que nos encontramos ante el escritor cubano más cimpleto de todos los tiempos y el héroe indiscutible de la independencia de la Isla. Sin embargo, estos textos suelen a menudo analizar facetas muy conocidas de su personalidad o de su obra, que con frecuencia se convierten en lugares comunes relacionado con los temas de su poesía, su adscripción o no al modernismo hispanoamericano, sus aspiraciones revolucionarias o si idealismo práctico