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LA MANO QUE ESCRIBE: Literatura, arte y pensamiento FIRST NATIONAL ESSAY AWARD 2008 OF THE PEN CLUB OF PUERTO RICO BY: ZOÉ JIMÉNEZ CORRETJER THE HAND THAT WRITES: Literature, Art and Thought This collection of essays include studies from medieval to contemporary literature in Spain and the Americas. Topics are focused in a philosophical, symbolical, and anthropological perspectives. Some essays cover the history of women philosophers, language and linguistics, sephardic studies, aesthetics, medieval misticism, and feminism... The title of the book was inspired by the special object named...

"Bandoleros vascos, tan reales como la misma sociedad". Así arranca este libro que describe una realidad común aunque poco conocida de los siglos XVII hasta el estallido de la primera guerra carlista, donde vagabundos, ladrones de caminos, viajeros asaltados y autoridades vigi-lantes formaban un cuadro lo suficientemente corriente como para que se pueda afirmar que robos y asaltos eran un ingrediente más de la sociedad tradicional vasca, sobre todo, en épocas de crisis y dificultades sociales. Pero este libro no se limita únicamente a recoger los robos y asaltos llevados a cabo con...

Catalogue, with full introduction, of theatrical performances in Badajoz in the latter part of the nineteenth century.

Don Catrín de la Fachenda is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776-1827), best known as the author of El periquillo sarniento (The Itching Parrot), often called the first Latin American novel. Don Catrín is three things at once: a rakish pícaro in the tradition of the picaresque; a catrín, a dandy or fop; and a criollo, a person born in the New World and belonging to the same dominant class as their Spanish-born parents but relegated to a secondary status. The novel interrogates then current ideas about the supposed innateness of race and...