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The Ladies-in-Waiting
In 1656, Diego Velázquez, leading figure in the Spanish Golden Age of painting, created one of the most enigmatic works in the history of art: Las Meninas (The Ladies-in-Waiting). This graphic novel, written and drawn by two of Spain’s most sophisticated comics creators, examines its legacy as one of the first paintings to explore the relationship among the viewer, reality, and unreality. (It guest stars Cano, Salvador Dalí, Zurbarán, and many others.) Olivares’s art moves from clear line to expressionistic; from pen nib to brush stokes; from one color palette to another, as The Ladies-in-Waiting uses fiction to explore the ties among artists and patrons, the past and the present, institutions and audiences, creators and creativity. Their combined efforts have garnered not only international comics prizes, but the equivalent of the National Book Award in Spain, where the book has been a commercial and critical sensation.
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Felipe
Del creador de las series «Isabel» y «El Ministerio del Tiempo», llega la gran novela histórica sobre Felipe II. Su padre le enseñó a ser Emperador. Las mujeres le enseñaron lo que era la vida. Esta es la historia de un niño que no eligió ser hijo de quien era. Perdió a su madre con doce años y veía tan poco a su padre que apenas recordaba su cara. Es la historia de un joven que a los dieciséis años gobernaba España por orden del Emperador. De un hombre creyente y supersticioso, marcado por las mujeres que le rodearon, seductor y desconfiado, dueño de una gran sensibilidad y capaz, al mismo tiempo, de las mayores crueldades con sus enemigos. Felipe no eligió ser hijo de Carlos I de España y V de Alemania. Pero lo fue. Esta es la historia de un hombre que heredó el mundo.
Mediating Vulnerability
Mediating Vulnerability examines vulnerability from a range of connected perspectives. It responds to the vulnerability of species, their extinction but also their transformation. This tension between extreme danger and creativity is played out in literary studies through the pressures the discipline brings to bear on its own categories, particularly those of genre. Extinction and preservation on the one hand, transformation, adaptation and (re)mediation on the other. These two poles inform our comparative and interdisciplinary project. The volume is situated within the particular intercultural and intermedial context of contemporary cultural representation. Vulnerability is explored as a si...
Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers
Pop culture portrayals of medieval and early modern monarchs are rife with tension between authenticity and modern mores, producing anachronisms such as a feminist Queen Isabel (in RTVE’s Isabel) and a lesbian Queen Christina (in The Girl King). This book examines these anachronisms as a dialogue between premodern and postmodern ideas about gender and sexuality, raising questions of intertemporality, the interpretation of history, and the dangers of presentism. Covering a range of famous and lesser-known European monarchs on screen, from Elizabeth I to Muhammad XII of Granada, this book addresses how the lives of powerful women and men have been mythologized in order to appeal to today’s audiences. The contributors interrogate exactly what is at stake in these portrayals; namely, our understanding of premodern rulers, the gender and sexual ideologies they navigated, and those that we navigate today.
Encyclopedia of Weird War Stories
Fictional war narratives often employ haunted battlefields, super-soldiers, time travel, the undead and other imaginative elements of science fiction and fantasy. This encyclopedia catalogs appearances of the strange and the supernatural found in the war stories of film, television, novels, short stories, pulp fiction, comic books and video and role-playing games. Categories explore themes of mythology, science fiction, alternative history, superheroes and "Weird War."
Robert Louis Stevenson and the Great Affair
In his travel narrative Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879), Robert Louis Stevenson declares, "I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. " Taking up the concepts of time, place, and memory, the contributors to this collection explore in what ways the dynamic view of life suggested by this quotation permeates Stevenson's work. The essays adopt a wide variety of critical approaches, including post-colonial theory, post-structuralism, new historicism, art history, and philosophy, making use of the vast array of literary materials that Stevenson left across a global journey that began in Scotland in 1850 and ended in Samoa in 1894. ...
Networked Systems
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Networked Systems, NETYS 2017, held in Marrakech, Morocco, in May 2017. The 28 full and 6 short papers presented together with 3 keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from 81 submissions. They are organized around the following topics: networking; distributed algorithms; atomicity; security and privacy; software engineering; concurrency and specifications; policies; agreement and consensus; clustering based techniques; verification; communication.
Mi universo freak
¿Estás listo para viajar al pasado? ¡Arrancamos el DeLorean! Los héroes, películas, series, juguetes, videojuegos de mi vida. ¿Cuáles eran tus superhéroes favoritos de la infancia? ¿Te gustaba más Superman o Batman? ¿Quién era el mejor héroe de acción: Stallone o Schwarzenegger? ¿Chuck Norris o Van Damme? Seguro que aún recuerdas los muñecos de He-Man o de las Tortugas Ninja. Y cómo olvidar todas aquellas maravillosas series: El coche fantástico, Dragon Ball, Expediente X... ¿Qué película disfrutaste más: Regreso al futuro o Indiana Jones y la última cruzada? Prepárate para emprender un viaje nostálgico por los años ochenta y noventa. Javier Olivares -el creador de...
