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Lecturas contemporáneas de tres clásicos: María, Cien años de soledad y Que viva la música
El presente volumen de la Serie Cuadernos de Humanidades celebra los cumpleaños de tres clásicos de la literatura colombiana: 150 años de María por Jorge Isaacs; 50 años de Cien años de Soledad por Gabriel García Márquez; 40 años de Qué viva la música por Andrés Caicedo. Estas tres obras pertenecientes al canon literario colombiano son también referencia literaria mundial. Este volumen comparte los textos presentados en los homenajes realizados durante el 2017 en el ámbito de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali: algunos fueron presentados como ponencias, otros como comentarios y otros como material de conversatorio, así mismo, una diversidad de perspectivas de análisis que evidencia, una vez más, la riqueza inagotable de estas obras literarias. Los cinco textos que integran este volumen se constituyen en un homenaje y una aproximación al análisis de estos tres clásicos. Por ello, esta Serie de Cuadernos de Humanidades se propone presentar una lectura contemporánea que reivindica la belleza, la magia de las palabras y el aporte cultural de estas expresiones a la construcción de nuestra identidad nacional.
Erotismo velado y decoro en "María", de Jorge Isaacs
El erotismo escondido de la prosa isaacsiana no está solamente detrás de los encajes de María, o enredado en sus trenzas, o en sus miradas, ni en los mórbidos brazos de la mulata Salomé, está por todos los intersticios de su obra. En los rumores, aromas, texturas y colores de las descripciones vallecaucanas. En este universo narrativo se ve, se oye, se huele, se palpa y se prueba el erotismo detrás de cada rama, de cada hoja, de cada pliegue de las nubecillas de oro, de cada talle de cualquier mujer u hombre que está a su vista. Es un universo narrativo cuyo alcance va más allá del romanticismo lacrimógeno en el cual se ha querido encasillar, pero que, para fortuna de todos, está siendo reevaluado. Con toda certeza podemos llamar a este universo de Isaacs como el paraíso narrativo de la poesía americana del siglo XIX. La naturaleza es la más amorosa de las madres cuando el dolor se ha adueñado de nuestra alma, y si la felicidad nos acaricia, ella nos sonríe (Isaacs, 2005: 91).
Metroland
A special edition of Julian Barnes’s first novel with an introduction from the author and previously unseen archive material. Christopher and Toni found in each other the perfect companion for that universal adolescent pastime: smirking at the world as you find it. In between training as flaneurs and the grind of school, they cast a cynical eye over their various dislikes: parents with their lives of spotless emptiness, Third Division (North) football teams, God, commuters and girls, and the inhabitants of Metroland: the strip of suburban dormitory Christopher calls home. Longing for real life to begin, Christopher makes for Paris in time for les événements of 1968, only to miss it all in a haze of sex, French theatre and first love. And before long he finds himself drawn inevitably back to Metroland and the very life he was trying to escape... This special edition contains unseen archive material including letters from early fans such as Philip Larkin and Dodie Smith, contemporary reviews, a deleted scene from the original manuscript as well as an introduction from the author.
The Byronic Hero
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Palinuro of Mexico
Like those writers to whom he has been compared--Fuentes, Garcia Marquez, James Joyce, and Rabelais--del Paso draws upon myth, science, and world literature to expand his particular story to universal proportions. Telling the story of a medical medical student who's engaged in an incestuous affair with his cousin, the novel satirizes advertising, politics, pornography, and mythology, while at the same time celebrating the body with a thoroughness that only a student of medicine could manage.
Fogón de Negros
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Romanticism and Postromanticism
Claudia Moscovici asserts in Romanticism and Postromanticism that the Romantic heritage, far from being important only in a historical sense, has philosophical relevance and value for contemporary art and culture. With an emphasis on artistic tradition as a continuing source of inspiration and innovation, she touches upon each main branch of philosophy: aesthetics, epistemology, and ethics. The book begins by describing some of the most interesting features of the Romantic movement that still fuel our culture. It then addresses the question: How did an artistic movement whose focus was emotive expression change into a quest for formal experimentation? And finally, Moscovici considers the aesthetic philosophy of postromanticism by thinking through how the Romantic emphasis upon beauty and passion can be combined with the modern and postmodern emphasis on originality and experimentation.
A Fighting Chance
Seventeen-year-old Miguel Angel spends every minute after school at the Packing Shed, working out with the Alisal Boxing Club. He dreams of becoming a champion so he can get his mother and five siblings out of their cramped one-bedroom apartment in one of Salinas' poorest barrios. But suddenly his life gets more complicated. The city is threatening to take the Packing Shed away from Coach, and without a place to train he won't be able to avoid the gangbangers in his neighborhood. His childhood friend, Beto, has succumbed to the wiles of easy money and expensive cars, and Miguel Angel wonders if he'll be able to resist his friend. Meanwhile, beautiful blonde Britney from Pebble Beach has ente...
Embodied Collective Memory
The human body is not a given fact; it is not, as Descartes believed, a “machine made up of flesh and bones.” The body is acquired, achieved, and learned. It is thus full of mimetic and mnemonic implications. The body remembers, and it does so in collectively relevant ways. Gestures, corporeal and phonetic rhythms, affective idioms, and emotional styles — perceptual, sensorial, motoric, and affective schemata — are all largely learned in shared social contexts. These aspects of the embodied experience are often consigned to habit, to bodily automatisms, and to corporeal memories that reflect aspects of culture. But if the body reflects certain aspects of culture that press to become ...
The UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights
In October 2005, UNESCO Member States adopted by acclamation the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights. For the first time in the history of bioethics, some 190 countries committed themselves and the international community to respect and apply fundamental ethical principles related to medicine, the life sciences and associated technologies. This publication provides a new impetus to the dissemination of the Declaration, and is part of the organisation's continuous effort to contribute to the understanding of its principles worldwide. The authors, who were almost all involved in the elaboration of the text of the Declaration, were asked to respond on each article: Why was it included? What does it mean? How can it be applied? Their responses shed light on the historical background of the text and its evolution throughout the drafting process. They also provide a reflection on its relevance to previous declarations and bioethical literature, and its potential interpretation and application in challenging and complex bioethical debates.
