I Am Sausal Creek

Eamonn Wall arrived in the United States in the 1980s as part of a wave of young, educated immigrants who became known as the "New Irish." In this book he comments on his own experiences and those of his generation, who identify as much with contemporary ethnic and immigrant America as they do with the long-settled Irish American community. Wall's starting point is the now-closed Sin-é Café in New York's East Village, which was a hangout in the early 1990s for expatriate Irish musicians, actors, and writers. He comments on the poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs of both the New Irish and...

Following studies by Goodman, Waley, and Darst, this new study of Garcilaso's work rejects as unfounded the traditional readings of Garcilaso's poetry based on the idea of sincerity and the poet's frustrated love for the Portuguese lady-in-waiting Isabel Freire. In place of the much-abused concept of sincerity, Heiple argues that the intellectual currents of the Renaissance are much more important for the analysis of Garcilaso's poetry. He analyzes in Garcilaso's poetry the uses of Renaissance concepts of mythology, poetic style, theories of love, primitivism, and iconological traditions....

Uno de los ensayos más célebres de George Orwell, en el que disecciona el ambiente social y literario en la Europa de los años treinta. En el vientre de la ballena es un ensayo dividido en tres partes donde el autor emplea el relato bíblico de Jonás y la ballena para ejemplificar la actitud conformista imperante en los años treinta, periodo caracterizado por la pasividad e indiferencia ante las graves circunstancias políticas y sociales que se vivían entonces. Tras un turbulento comienzo de siglo marcado por la Primera Guerra Mundial, la Revolución Rusa y la Guerra Civil española, y ...

El Círculo del Amanecer ha contratado a Keller, una cambiante que se transforma en pantera, para proteger a un nuevo Poder Salvaje. Pero cuando la cambiante se enamora, su amor podría destruirlo todo...