Discurso sobre el origen y progreso de la lengua castellana de pedro muñoz y peña

«Su obra es una puesta en duda de los valores entendidos, una forma creativa de la desconfianza.» Juan Villoro

Antonio Perez, the brilliant but erratic secretary to Philip II of Spain, became in the years of his exile a political agent in the service of the Earl of Essex, arriving at the Court of Queen Elizabeth in 1593. On behalf of Essex, who valued him as a friend, a partner and a humanist scholar, he cast an intelligence network over Italy; and he made a striking, though dangerous, contribution to the Essex cult.

Muchos de los poemas que conforman Poems Written In Early Youth, escritos entre los dieciséis y veintidós años, incluyen la formación misma que el combatiente modernista buscaría desacreditar más tarde: Shelley, Tennyson y los victorianos, incluso Byron (cuya influencia se hace muy visible en poemas como “A Fable for Feasters”). Aunque la mayoría de los poemas muestran a un Eliot virando hacia los intereses revolucionarios de su primer volumen: la influencia de Laforgue, Corbière y Baudelaire, y la resurrección de los metafísicos.

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 ...