The Unity of Plutarch's Work

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 ...

Este libro analiza siete traducciones de obras dramáticas de Shakespeare al español: los Hamlet de Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1798), José María Pemán y Salvador de Madariaga (ambos de 1949), Macbeth de José García de Villalta (1838), Domando la tarasca, traducción de The Taming of the Shrew de María de la O Lejárraga (1917), Otelo o el pañuelo encantado de León Felipe (1960) y El mercader de Venecia de Vicente Molina Foix (1995), todas ellas concebidas para ser representadas y no simplemente leídas. El objetivo es investigar de forma interdisciplinar estas traducciones,...

This book contains essays in Spanish and English. The essays in this collection are distinctive in their critical approach to a wide variety of topics. Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela and Chile are represented by some of their major literary figures in poetry (Valencia, Mistral, Neruda, Torres Bodet) or prose fiction (Asturias, Gallegos, Garcia Marquez). The four concluding studies on Von Humboldt, La Condamine, Gerstacker and Zweig are valuable in that they present historical, political, sociological, geographical and/or scientific concerns in a cross-cultural context."

Nabokov nos da las pautas para una lectura sagaz, heterodoxa y apasionante de grandes libros europeos Vladimir Nabokov, lejos de generalidades y teorizaciones, enseña a sus alumnos a "acariciar los detalles" y apasionarse con la lectura de Austen, Dickens, Stevenson, Proust, Flaubert, Joyce y Kakfa. Estas lecciones apasionadas y apasionantes, reconstruidas más tarde por Fredson Bowers a partir de los apuntes del maestro, son una ocasión única para releer a fondo las grandes novelas de la literatura europea. A lo largo de casi dos décadas, antes de alcanzar la celebridad con Lolita,...