Historia y crítica de la literatura española: Edad Media

How Far is America From Here? approaches American nations and cultures from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It is very much at the heart of this comparative agenda that “America” be considered as a hemispheric and global matter. It discusses American identities relationally, whether the relations under discussion operate within the borders of the United States, throughout the Americas, and/or worldwide. The various articles here gathered interrogate the very notion of “America”: which, whose America, when, why now, how? What is meant by “far”—distance,...

En este interesante estudio, Stephen Marche demuestra cómo Shakespeare cambió el mundo. Del autor de Raymond and Hannah, Stephen Marche. La sexualidad, la importación de aves, el lenguaje, asesinatos políticos, la invención del adolescente o la lucha por los derechos civiles: Shakespeare lo cambió todo. La influencia de Shakespeare en todo ámbito cultural es indiscutible, sin importar si se le ha leído o no. Su presencia afecta nuestra forma de hablar, comportarnos y pensar. Stephen Marche lo nombra "el escritor más poderoso del mundo" y "una de las figuras más imponentes de la...

Peter Pan was born over a century ago. There is something doubly contradictory in this phrase that, although true, is also the reason why this book has been released. We are talking about the boy who will never grow up and the fact that he is celebrating his hundredth birthday should provoke some surprise. At the same time, he is such a powerful icon that it is also true that he seems to have been there, floating in our culture, reappearing in its images, since time immemorial - much farther back than the early twentieth century. This book shows that, although he considered dying to be an...