Cuentos del mar y otras historias

The volume gathers eleven contributions on the origins, evolution and function of female models in Western culture, from Greco-Roman texts to medieval and Renaissance literature. Organized in four thematic blocks, the book intends to elucidate how misogynistic discourse and its opposite are constructed in literary and didactical works dealing with feminine archetypes.

Los ensayos aquí reunidos, no obstante las perspectivas teóricas particulares y los enfoques diversos que adoptan en sus análisis, coinciden en referirse a ciertos problemas de fondo vinculados a la representación de la violencia extrema, como son las condiciones de producción, los mecanismos formales adoptados en la escritura, los efectos en el receptor, o las injerencias en el medio social provocadas por los textos literarios a la hora de articular violencia política, memoria, representación y justicia.

"What do the statues of the world have to offer? The Great Sphinx of Giza, the Caryatids in Athens or the dragon of the Forbidden City in Beijing... are statues that have witnessed... the course of history. But what if these witnesses could talk? What would they say? In this exciting collection of stories, statues have their say. Statues of the world meet fiction and information across seven stories that contain universal themes such as freedom, fantasy or love. Each of the stories takes as inspiration a representative of world culture in the form of a statue, and this is both a literary...

This book provides an overview of the main routes and trends that the Mexican theater journeyed in the twentieth century. It specially seeks to link the texts, the ideas about the scene, the way of acting, the sense of direction and the public of that time. Therefore, its about approaching through different points of view to an integrated perspective of the theatrical phenomenon in Mexico over a century staging, text and society.