Leones. Las historias de la U más exitosa de todos los tiempos

Antecedentes, circunstancias y hechos históricos de un caballero placentino, comendador mayor de la orden militar de Alcántara, siempre al servicio de emperador Carlos V, con las armas, las letras y la diplomacia.

El tesoro poético de Cervantes. La poesía suele ser la parcela menos considerada de su genio, pero sin ella la obra cervantina quedaría mermada. Es, además, la expresión artística que cultivó de manera más constante. Esta edición presenta el extenso poema narrativo, publicado en 1614, y una treintena larga de textos poéticos que escribió por motivos muy diferentes. El Viaje responde al impulso creador del último Cervantes y combina recuerdos de su experiencia mediterránea y militar con alegorías cómicas. Pero lo principal es, sin duda, la voluntad de responder al sistema...

This book proposes a renewed myth-critical approach to the so-called ‘wasteland modernism’ of the 1920s to reassess certain key texts of the American modernist canon from a critical prism that offers new perspectives of analysis and interpretation. Myth-criticism and, more specifically, the critical survey of myth as an aesthetic and ideological strategy fundamental for the comprehension of modernist literature, leads to an engaging discussion about the disenchantment of myth in modernist literary texts. This process of mythical disenchantment, inextricable from the cultural and...

This travelogue provides a basic reader for students on the upper high-school level and for secondary-level college students. The author's expert knowledge of the language and the country has enabled him to give free rein to his love affair with Guatemala. The result is a well-planned exercise in language, complete with extensive notes, exercises, and vocabu­lary, but enlivened with real-life learning experience. Interwoven with the sights of present-day Guatemala are glimpses into the past of Mayan civilization. Mr. Davis has drawn from his own knowledge of the country in the careful...