Las personas que intentan obtener el beneplácito de algún soberano, a menudo le ofrecen algo de gran importancia para ellos mismos, o algo que saben es de su particular agrado. Es por esto que los gobernantes siempre están recibiendo caballos, armas, brocados de oro, joyas y todo tipo de ropas elegantes que los donatarios consideran apropiados. Con la esperanza de traer ante vuestra Majestad una muestra de mi lealtad, me doy cuenta de que no hay...

This book investigates synaesthesia in philosophy and literature, from Aristotle to Charles Baudelaire to Jean-Luc Nancy and beyond. Its central claim is that while synaesthesia is generally read as a figure of transcendence and unity, there is another effect of synaesthesia, one that articulates differences and displaces essence. This other synaesthesia opens up within or alongside the more familiar sense of synaesthesia as synthesis, pointing to...

Robert L. Belknap's theory of plot illustrates the active and passive role literature plays in creating its own dynamic reading experience. Literary narrative enchants us through its development of plot, but plot tells its own story about the making of narrative, revealing through its structures, preoccupations, and strategies of representation critical details about how and when a work came into being. Through a rich reading of Shakespeare's King...

Book I This engaging, and gripping story, is the memoirs of young Michael Valli, a Modern Gothic American Horror chronicle, which takes place in the present-day picturesque waterfront town of Mystic; which has a folklore history of Vampires allegedly residing there, circa the late Eighteen Hundreds. This is the elegiac story of; Michael's struggle with the Gothic passions of good and the depraved horrors of evil, a 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', and...

It is important for women to know why the attacks come at their heart, the very seat of their emotions and feelings. God made a woman from the rib over the heart of man. The rib was designed to protect the heart. I believe women are the heart of men and his strength lies at this heart and it is for the benefits of the man not to hurt, bruise, or harm the heart of a woman. When he does, it kills who he is. The stronger she is, the more balance he becomes....

Recognition and Ethics in World Literature is a critical comparative study of contemporary world literature, focusing on the importance of the ethical turn (or return) in literary theory. The book examines the ethical engagement of novels by Amitav Ghosh, Chimamanda Adichie, Caryl Phillips, Kazuo Ishiguro, Zadie Smith, and J. M. Coetzee, exploring the overlap and divergence between Levinasian/Derridean and Aristotelian ethics. Recognitions and emotional...

What is it like to be a student nurse? What are the joys, the stresses, the transcendent moments, the fall-off-your-bed- laughing moments, and the terrors that have to be faced and stared down? And how might nurses, looking back, relate these experiences in ways that bring these memories to life again and provide historical context for how nursing education has changed and yet remained the same? In brave, revealing, and often humorous poetry and prose,...

En 2010 y 2011 Alejandro Soriano Vallés dio a conocer al mundo documentos probatorios de la fidelidad con que los primeros biógrafos de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz relataron su vida. Contra las distorsiones introducidas por la crítica de los siglos XX y XXI, dichos papeles corroboraron la exactitud de las informaciones antiguas. Ahora el autor vuelve a presentar documentos inéditos que, ratificando los testimonios de los contemporáneos de la poetisa,...

En esta novela hay una torre, una computadora central y hombres acaudalados que ejercen el poder; hay una mujer que accede a la torre sin saber que su sola presencia será suficiente para producir el colapso del oscuro sistema que la torre protege. La trama de Cena de cenizas es compleja, nos hace sentir en un laberinto, en un acertijo cuya única regla parece ser la incongruencia: adversarios que son aliados, maternidades atípicas y contradictorias,...