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In poetry, there lies a canvas, a blank space to create a universe, where you cannot prepare yourself for any sets of unusual reality. A little imagination to mesmerize, inspiration is a significant different voice from art, philosophy, and religion. Poetry attempts to use consistent abstract thoughts to inspire words, which they fail to articulate. Keith Phillip sees poetry as a window to his own unpredictable self, willing to take risks, risking...
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Nerissa's Ring is the last two words of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
It is "upside down" because the merchants in the play were on a pilgrimage from Venice to Belmont, the home of the queenly princess, Portia, whose assistant was Nerissa. Shakespeare asserts that one can get from Venice to Belmont either by land or by sea. It turns out Belmonte is an inland town in northeastern Portugal which fits that geography.
Furthermore, today's...
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En las últimas décadas hemos asistido a una proliferación tan considerable de novelas sobre la Guerra Civil española quem sin duda, podemos claificar este fenómeno como una suerte de moda literaria. David Becerra se pregunta: ¿a qué se debe esta eclosión de títulos que parecen cuestionar el pacto de silencio y olvido de la Transición? Pero, ¿verdaderamente lo cuestionan? ¿son novelas que reivindican la memoria histórica o, al contrario,...
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Brazil and France have explored each other's geographical and cultural landscapes for more than five hundred years. The Brazilian je ne sais quoi has captivated the French from their first encounter, and the ingenuity à francesa of French artistic and scholarly movements has intrigued Brazilians in kind. Ongoing Brazil-France interactions have resulted in some of the richest cultural exchanges between Europe and Latin America.
In Cultural Exchanges...
6) Pasadizos
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Entre un libro y otro libro, entre una obra de arte y otra, entre los conceptos estéticos y los literarios, existen pasadizos; pasajes subterráneos conocidos unas veces, secretos en la mayoría.
Este ensayo toma la forma de una linterna, para abrirse paso por esos corredores. Dice Paul De Man en Visión y ceguera que "la modernidad existe en la forma de un deseo de borrar todo lo que vino antes, con la esperanza de llegar a un punto final que pueda...
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In Losing the Plot, well-known scholar and writer Leon de Kock offers a lively and wide-ranging analysis of post-apartheid South African writing which, he contends, has morphed into a far more flexible and multifaceted entity than its predecessor. If postapartheid literature's founding moment was the 'transition' to democracy, writing over the ensuing years has viewed the Mandelan project with increasing doubt. Instead, authors from all quarters are...
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It is important for women to know why the attacks come at their heart, the very seat of their emotions and feelings. God made a woman from the rib over the heart of man. The rib was designed to protect the heart. I believe women are the heart of men and his strength lies at this heart and it is for the benefits of the man not to hurt, bruise, or harm the heart of a woman. When he does, it kills who he is. The stronger she is, the more balance he becomes....
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The first great English poet was the father of English tragedy and the creator of English blank verse. Chaucer and Spenser were great writers and great men: they shared between them every gift which goes to the making of a poet except the one which alone can make a poet, in the proper sense of the word, great. Neither pathos nor humor nor fancy nor invention will suffice for that: no poet is great as a poet whom no one could ever pretend to recognize...
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Maurice, a central text within the gay literary canon, is by far one of the bravest creative works written within the genre of LGBT literature, arguably, it is one of the bravest texts of the early twentieth century. The novel is an essence a BILDUNGSROMAN that traces the emotional development of the eponymous hero as he deals with the repercussions of being homosexual in Edwardian England. Although, written by E.M. Forster, during 1913-19 14, he...
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Explore the journey of the female protagonist in fantasy literature through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first in The Dawning of Twilight: The Rise of the Female Protagonist. A comparative study of four landmark fantasy novels, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Golden Compass, and Twilight, the traits and characteristics of the heroines and their quests are analyzed, along with the progression toward...
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Crisscrossing Through Afro-Asian Literature is intended to give the reader varied views of life in the Afro-Asian sphere. It hopes to help the reader capture the nuances of the human experience that well from the vast wealth of wisdom and culture in these countries.
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Nuruddin Farah is widely regarded as one of the most sophisticated voices in contemporary world literature. Michel Foucault is revered as one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, with his discursive legacy providing inspiration for scholars working in a range of interdisciplinary fields. The Disorder of Things offers a reading of the Somali novelist through the prism of the French philosopher. The book argues that the preoccupations...
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La pensée a joué - et joue toujours - un rle vital dans le devenir de l'espèce humaine dont l'histoire se conçoit et se crée à travers elle. C'est par elle, également, que l'humanité a su pallier des faiblesses qui la rendent vulnérable aux phénomènes naturels. On peut donc s'attendre à en voir la trace dans la façon dont diverses sociétés ont projeté leur existence et assumé leur place dans le monde. Comment la pensée structure-t-elle,...
15) El polaco
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Gracias a:
Daniel, por su apoyo, su inmenso cariño y por ser el único hombre que me hace reír de verdad. Mi Xiuma, por leerme y por ser mi fan número uno. Dayana Paradas, por ser la primera en leerme y siempre estar allí para mí. Mi mami, por impulsarme a creer en mí. Mis fieles lectoras. Gracias, chicas… muchas gracias. Mis hijos. Esto es para ustedes. Los amo con el alma y con todo mi corazón. Son mi más grande orgullo y espero ser la...
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El arte dramático de sor Juana Inés de la Cruz presenta un análisis de sus 33 obras representables: Comedias, Autos, Villancicos y Loas. Incluye una cronología de su Teatro que permite aclarar con nuevas luces su controvertida biografía; por ejemplo, se incluye un novedoso acercamiento de su relación con sus Arzobispos y un análisis textual de su pensamiento sobre la legitimación femenina. Interesante es el estudio de La segunda Celestina,...
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Erich Auerbach (1892–1957) was Sterling Professor of Romance Languages at Yale University. He is widely recognized as one of the foundational figures of comparative literature. Edward W. Said (1935–2003) was professor of literature at Columbia University and the author of Orientalism.
The classic book that has taught generations how to read Western literature
More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis...
18) Escribir ficción
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Wharton, la primera mujer en recibir el prestigioso Premio Pulitzer y, seguramente, la novelista norteamericana más importante de su generación, publicó en la revista Scribner's a mediados de los años veinte una serie de ensayos dedicados a la técnica, la práctica y el oficio de la creación literaria. Escribir ficción es una brillante aproximación a las claves de la ficción moderna, en el que, con sencillez y rigor, desgrana técnicas y...
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The influential and controversial critic takes literary history out of the classroom and into the public
In the field of literary history and theory, Franco Moretti is synonymous with innovation. The cofounder of the Stanford Literary Lab, he brought quantitative methods into the study of the novel, enabling a "distant" reading that uses computation to analyze literary production over centuries. But at the same time, he was also teaching undergraduates...
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