Los libros de cuentas de los corrales de comedias de Madrid, 1706-1719

(...) es posible reconstruir y explorar otros aspectos del impacto de las piezas teatrales sobre su público. Los comentaristas nos han demostrado que el contemporáneo de Lope de Vega contemplaba el mundo a través de us serie de idées reçues que el dramaturgo sabía reflejar y explotar. Las restricciones de esta cosmovisión, y sus potencialidades para con el dramaturgo, constituyen un aspecto de los estudios que abarca el tomo presente; además, pretendo aquí analizar la manera en que el teatro mismo imponía otras restricciones y permitía el desarrollo de otras potencialidades.Las...

Here is a collection of interviews that cover the period from 1967 through 1993. Many are translations of interviews that originally appeared in French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish, or Swedish periodicals. Several are published here for the first time in any language. Giving attention to Sontag's education and the development of her aesthetic and moral temperament, they cover Sontag's rich career as a distinguished writer, filmmaker, dramatist, and cultural critic. Born in New York City, reared in Arizona and California, educated at Berkeley, Chicago, Harvard, Oxford, the Sorbonne,...

Nuevos fantasmas recorren México propone nuevas aproximaciones al estudio de lo fantasmal en la literatura del siglo XXI mexicana en la obra de ocho autores contemporáneos. Guadalupe Nettel, Valeria Luiselli, Yuri Herrera, Emiliano Monge, Daniel Sada, Élmer Mendoza, Julián Herbert y Carmen Boullosa plantean, de maneras distintas, la representación de un fantasma real, existente y tangible. Para ello usan la forma del inmigrante, del doble (Doppelgänger), de la mujer cuya obra no es leída ni considerada, de las personas que viven sin un propósito en lugares fronterizos y no se sienten...

He's proven it and proves it again in this hilarious, fast-paced story animated by her proverbial grace and his wit. Marco Denevi and some mysterious alter ego narrate a vast chronicle in an unusual way: offering the details of that kind of saga shredded in the articles of an encyclopedia. Articles that the reader can put together in diverse narrative systems, advancing successively, or alternating their advance in jumps, crosses, combinations... Thus, they will compose the story of an Argentine family that begins with the arrival in these lands of a Manuel the Adelantadito, conqueror of the...

Susan Sontag: An Annotated Bibliographycatalogues the works of one of America's most prolific and important 20th century authors. Known for her philosophical writings on American culture, topics left untouched by Sontag's writings are few and far between. This volume is an exhaustive collection that includes her novels, essays, reviews, films and interviews. Each entry is accompanied by an annotated bibliography.