Recurso humano

Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this comparative study of a selection of The Arabian Nights stories in a cross-cultural context, brings together a number of disciplines and subject areas to examine the workings of narrative. It predominantly focuses on the ways in which the Arabian Nights have transformed as its stories have travelled across historical eras, cultures, genres and media. Departing from the familiar approaches of influence and textual studies, this book locates its central inquiry in the theoretical questions surrounding the workings of ideology, genre and genre ideology ...

An anthology of Spanish women writers from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century. Water Lilies brings to light a rich & 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 & English & are located within a critical, biographical & historical overview.

No existe en la historia universal ningún pueblo que haya tenido una expansión territorial y marítima tan amplia y temprana como el ibérico. Palabra y sangre se mezclaron para dar nacimiento a un rosario de naciones que sienten y se expresan de la misma forma que los habitantes de la antigua Hispania. Naciones que han dado nacimiento a las más bellas manifestaciones artísticas y literarias, aun en los países más pequeños de Centro América. La presencia ultramarina ibérica hubiese sido efímera y superficial sin la presencia de la mujer, transmisora en primer grado de la cultura....

"This new English translation of Canaima should be welcomed by all readers of Gallegos. In addition to Kirkland's translation (based on Charles Minguet's 1991 critique of the novel in Spanish), work contains his engaging and provocative translator's essay