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The Persephone Myth in Young Adult Fiction
Investigating the widespread but understudied presence of the Persephone myth within 21st-century young adult literature, Cristina Salcedo González analyses six young adult novels which incorporate a reworking of this ancient Greek myth. Through the identification of mythic themes ('mythemes') and patterns within these novels, González shows that these works evoke the female life cycle and develop current perceptions of the female maturational experience. As a result, González makes an important contribution in establishing the cultural significance of young adult literature in the world of classical reception. These novels, all written by women, also inflect or interpret the myth in ways...
Classical Reception
In a time of acute crisis when our societies face a complex series of challenges (race, gender, inclusivity, changing pedagogical needs and a global pandemic) we urgently need to re-access the nature of our engagement with the Classical World. This edited collection argues that we need to discover new ways to draw on our discipline and the material it studies to engage in meaningful ways with these new academic and societal challenges. The chapters included in the collection interrogate the very processes of reception and continue the work of destabilising the concept of a pure source text or point of origin. Our aim is to break through the boundaries that still divide our ancient texts and ...
Clasicismo e identidades contemporáneas
La identidad es uno de los conceptos prominentes de nuestra contemporaneidad, una noción que atraviesa discursos políticos, filosóficos y socioculturales de distinto signo. Este volumen analiza las interacciones entre el mundo grecolatino y el actual, y la manera en que las referencias clásicas han contribuido a la conformación y desarrollo de las identidades contemporáneas. Su planteamiento se interesa fundamentalmente por tres de ellas: las identidades individuales (basadas en el género, la sexualidad o la raza, entre otros), las identidades colectivas (nacionales, supranacionales, religiosas, corporativas, etc.) y, finalmente, las identidades digitales (redes sociales, cibercomunid...
Los González
Una historia que tiene por objeto perdurar para aquellas generaciones que vengan, que hicieron aquellos que pasaron, una historia que pretende desenredar el entuerto de quienes multiplicaron los panes que recibieron, los compartieron o no con los que tenían menos, o lo perdieron todo o casi todo al administrarlo pobremente. En fin, la historia de una familia, con sus dichas, desdichas, pero con amor para todos aquellos que llevan este apellido, como para una provincia y un país que en ocasiones los perjudicó, pero al que amaron siempre. Sesenta y dos años me tomo llegar a Zaruma, cualquiera diría que se encontraba en otra parte del mundo, pero no, Zaruma está cada vez más cerca, pero yo, no llegaba, postergaba, como si el tiempo iba a permitirme visitarla siempre.
Mitocrítica cultural
Desde los albores del positivismo decimonónico hasta nuestros días, en el panorama universitario europeo y americano se han sucedido incontables definiciones y teorías sobre el mito. Habitualmente este tipo de relato ha sido reducido a una historia anecdótica, un pretexto introspectivo o un recurso semiótico, cuando no a una falacia sensacionalista. Tras una amplia introducción encaminada a comprender los factores que dificultan la comprensión del mito en nuestra cultura contemporánea (globalización, relativismo e inmanencia), este libro profundiza en la noción de trascendencia sobrenatural sagrada, categoría basilar para una correcta distinción entre el mito y otros correlatos d...
Out on Main Street & Other Stories
Award-winning author of Cereus Blooms at Night, Shani Mootoo writes with uncommon sensitivy and brash humour, exploring gender roles, family ties, and cultural diversity.
Barrio Rising
Beginning in the late 1950s political leaders in Venezuela built what they celebrated as Latin America’s most stable democracy. But outside the staid halls of power, in the gritty barrios of a rapidly urbanizing country, another politics was rising—unruly, contentious, and clamoring for inclusion. Based on years of archival and ethnographic research in Venezuela’s largest public housing community, Barrio Rising delivers the first in-depth history of urban popular politics before the Bolivarian Revolution, providing crucial context for understanding the democracy that emerged during the presidency of Hugo Chávez. In the mid-1950s, a military government bent on modernizing Venezuela raz...
Transform Yourself and Live in Balance
Living in balance and being positive are the antidotes to any illness. Food nourishes your blood, your blood nourishes all your organs, and your thoughts and feelings are as healthy as your nutrition. Rebecca Solano In Transform Yourself and Live in Balance, Rebecca Solano shares her more than ten years of experience helping people get healthy and reach their goal weight, people with all kinds of illnesses, in particular being overweight or morbidly obese. These illnesses compromise vital systems, creating cancer, Parkinson’s Disease, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, high blood pressure, problems related to the digestive and nervous systems, among others. You will discover how simple it is to rest...
