Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
The Ghost in the Constitution
A book that offers new directions in the study of memory in Spain, written by one of the world's leading scholars of contemporary Spanish culture.
Writing Through the Body. Iraqi Responses to the War on Terror
The 2003 Iraq invasion provoked an unprecedented phenomenon in the Iraqi literary scene: fiction exceeds poetry in production, critical reception, and market figures. New narrative genres, concerned with stories of wars and trauma, depict corporality and sexuality in their most material sense. Writing Through the Body argues that interest in the physical indicates a new perception of corporeality and, to show this, it traces a genealogy of the Iraqi body to uncover the complexity of its historical and socio-political discourses. Considering religious, social, and political factors, the body is examined in three semiospheres: Iraqi society and culture before 2003, the discourse of the war on terror as a semiotic interference, and contemporary Iraqi fiction as the result of the encounter between the two. This structure shows how corporeality was interrupted by and instrumentalised in war propaganda, and how new representations in fiction respond to the two spheres in conflict.
De-Centring Cultural Studies
The academic resistance that cultural studies has encountered remains especially visible in Eastern and Southern European countries. One such example is Spain, where cultural studies is seen at best as an emergent research field. Hence the interest of this volume, conceived in Spain by an all-Spanish editorial team and written by a diverse range of authors who prove that, in spite of all difficulties, cultural studies continues to bloom – even in Southern and Eastern Europe. The different chapters offer interdisciplinary insights into a wide selection of cultural materials whose relevance goes well beyond purely aesthetic issues. Altogether, the volume (1) provides interesting theoretical ...
The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945-2010
This Companion brings together sixteen essays that explore the full diversity of British poetry since the Second World War. Focusing on famous and neglected names alike, from Dylan Thomas to John Agard, leading scholars provide readers with insight into the ongoing importance and profundity of post-war poetry.
The Case of Rady Scott
Rady Scoot, young innocent where they are, suddenly he finds with the most disappointed in his existence because of his parents. They had promised him that if he passed the exams, they would give him a state-of-the-art sports car. Fruit of the disappointment and the anguish, Rady decides to leave his sweet home. He wants to travel to Mallorca and gets a large sum of money betting on the horses, which allows him to embark on a merchant whose captain tells him the story of his family. Already in Mallorca, Rady discovers values such as friendship, trust and kindness of people. But suddenly Rady's dream turns into a real nightmare. He suffers strange events that until they are not solved he will not be allow to be happy again.
Catalònia Culture
None
Jaume Vidal Alcover
Aquest llibre, que recull les anàlisis de seva obra i la personalitat de Jaume Vidal i Alcover, exposades en el col•loqui científic que li va dedicar el Departament de Filologia Catalana de la Universitat Rovira i Virgili en el desè aniversari de la seva mort, vol marcar l'inici de la recuparació per a l'actualitat literària de l'autor, entre una àmplia producció literària, de L'hora verda, El Fill Pròdig, Les quatre llunes, Sophie o els mals de la discreció i Manicomi d'estiu.
Metodología de la investigación científica
Metodología de la investigación científica es un manual con el que ayudar al universitario de humanidades, en especial en el ámbito de las filologías (en sus más diversos estadios: grado, máster, doctorado), a la realización del trabajo académico. Ofrece pautas para su elaboración, corrección ortotipográfica, sistemas de clasificación de bibliotecas, herramientas electrónicas para la búsqueda bibliográfica, así como un minucioso ejemplario de cómo enfrentarse a la citación de toda clase de documentos. Virgilio Tortosa es profesor en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Alicante, y vierte aquí su experiencia acumulada a lo largo de década y media de docencia. Es autor de ensayos sobre individualismo y autobiografía en la literatura de la democracia española, así como editor de reflexiones sobre la industria cultural, hipertexto y traducción literaria.
