Novísimas

This book explores the political, social and cultural consequences of COVID-19 through a corpus of over 15.000 articles published in Spain and Latin America in the first pandemic year. Organized around four epistemic fields (geopolitics, gender, biopolitics, philosophy and culture), the contributions offer a quantitative and qualitative analysis combining Big Data tools and humanistic thought.

An edition of the earliest surviving account books of the two public playhouses of Madrid, giving the daily repertoire, takings and expenses.The latter include detailed information on scenery, actors and sundry minor repairs to the theatres, as well as the daily payment to the Royal Hospice, from which the size of the audience can be calculated.The introduction, includes database analysis of the accounts, and alphabetical index of plays performed.

En el siglo XVIII Ana María Castellanos es condenada por incitar a la fuga a los soldados del Fuerte del Carmen; durante tres días con sus noches arden , a lo largo de la pampa patagónica, hogueras para honrar a María la Grande, cacique de guerreros Tehuelches; Gertrudis Sánchez, esposa del gobernador de Malvinas, protagoniza un dramático episodio al tiempo que los ingleses se apoderan de las islas; una cuatrera, Elena Greenhill, conocida como "la inglesa", se transforma en una leyenda por secuestrar a un comisario; poco después del desembarco de los galeses en Chubut una mujer...

Películas, videojuegos, discos, juguetes, cosplay y objetos cotidianos en general, hoy en día son el hábitat natural de los superhéroes, unos personajes que comenzaron su existencia en revistas baratas, dirigidas sobre todo al público infantil y juvenil y que han acabado convirtiéndose en un icono de la cultura universal. Hoy los superhéroes se cuentan por miles. Son los herederos de los personajes mitológicos y, al igual que éstos, compensan su condición de dioses supertodopoderosos, con las flaquezas, miserias y pasiones propias del ser humano. Con el paso de los años, el cómic...

Absalom, Absalom! has long been seen as one of William Faulkner's supreme creations, as well as one of the leading American novels of the twentieth century. In this collection Fred Hobson has brought together eight of the most stimulating essays on Absalom, essays written over a thirty-year span which approach the novel both formally and historically. Here are critical responses by Cleanth Brooks, John Irwin, Thadious Davis, and Eric Sundquist, as well as four essays published in the last decade. The casebook concludes with Faulkner's own remarks on the novel, delivered in a discussion with...