Winter Rules

One day, the Wolf from classic stories such as the Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood decides to go on strike because he is tired of being the bad guy. Will any of the characters be able to convince him to get back to work?

Author and Professor Dr. Pablo Valdivia analyzes the contradictions and complexities of the Spanish traditional canon from a transnational approach. Valdivia explores this particular canon as a 'haunted house' by focusing on the specific dialectics of presence, absence and (in)visibilization offered in relevant case studies: Jose Ricardo Morales, Cervantes or Jesus Carrasco, among others. Under the new term of 'disinherited literature', Valdivia advocates for coining critical categories that enrich the study of Spanish texts and shed new light on their radical specificities far from biased...

To complement the historical survey, a brief description of the social environment in Los Angeles is included. In addition, a short presentation on how the Spanish printing press and newspapers evolved in America is presented to show how these two processes contributed to the literary and cultural background of this ethnic group.

Las amistades peligrosas se publicó por primera vez en 1782, y su rotundo éxito hizo que, en cuestión de unos meses, aparecieran alrededor de veinte nuevas ediciones. Choderlos de Laclos creó un estupendo y provocativo retrato de la libertina y decadente aristocracia pre-revolucionaria mediante una novela epistolar cuyas cartas reflejan los abusos de poder y las intrigas amorosas que se llevaban a cabo en los salones de la corte francesa. Esta magnífica obra, inspirada en hechos reales acontecidos en el entorno de Laclos, ha sido llevada al cine y al teatro en numerosas ocasiones....