El espacio urbano en la narrativa del Madrid de la Edad de Plata (1900-1938)

Annotation Between 1605 and 1621, Quevedo wrote a sequence of five "Dreams" or "Visions" "(Suenos y discursos), in each of which he hilariously envisions Spanish society as populated by people rightfully condemned to Hell. These astonishingly witty and irreverent satires of contemporary Spanish culture, morality, prejudice and religious fanaticism, were composed in a style as allusive, elliptical and equivocal as to successfully entertain both those who barely understood their full range and import, and others who celebrated the poet's rebellious insinuations. Censorship prohibited the...

Richly informed by contemporary sociological theory, Manuel de Jesus Hernandez El colonialismo interno en la narrativa chicana distinguishes between the assimilationist and the internal colonialism models of Mexican American society and culture. The author applies the internal colonialism model for the first time to the representation of Chicanos found in their narrative literature. Among the categories of narrative discussed are the espacio pochista, the migrante, and the indigenista. The book is a signal advance in the sociology of Chicano narrative and its application to significant...

If the flame on your dragon went out, would you know what to do? Luckily, the answer can be found right in this book! It's ideal for reading aloud since it combines a mixture of script and print writing.

La presente obra propone mostrar qué se esconde tras el disfraz lingüístico del tabú, a través de un recorrido global e interdisciplinar de los procesos de interdicción lingüística (el eufemismo, el disfemismo y los procesos mixtos) en sus distintas vertientes (lingüística, pragmática y literaria) tomando como base el lenguaje literario inglés. De este modo, El eufemismo y el disfemismo intenta subsanar las limitaciones observadas en los trabajos precedentes relativos a la interdicción verbal, por lo general limitados al eufemismo como fenómeno léxico-semántico, y adopta una...