Winter Rules

Who writes "I"? How is the scene of writing represented in autobiographical texts? To whom are autobiographies addressed? What kinds of readers are inscribed in autobiographical narratives? In Apology to Apostrophe, James D. Fernandez offers a lucid and powerful meditation on the nature of autobiographical writing through his investigation of the historical conditions and literary stagings of autobiographical writing in Spain. As Fernandez demonstrates, recent developments in critical theory provide new and fruitful approaches to autobiographical works that have long been neglected,...

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.

Cómo los traficantes están cambiando el mundo. Siempre han existido contrabandistas, traficantes y piratas, pero nunca como hoy, con la capacidad de operar a nivel mundial conectando los lugares más remotos del planeta y las capitales más cosmopolitas a la velocidad de Internet o de sus jets privados, con un poder económico que mueve más del 10 por ciento del comercio mundial (diez veces más que hace una década), y sobre todo con el poder político que han acumulado en todo el mundo. Nunca antes los criminales habían sido tan globales, tan ricos ni tan políticamente influyentes....

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...