Mas de ochenta anos transcurrieron desde que la sublevacion militar de julio de 1936 y los tres anos de la guerra civil consecuentes interrumpieron el proceso de construccion de la democracia espanola y descarriaron hacia otra via, la historia de Espana. El conflicto se propago por Europa y el mundo como una onda de choque maxima, con crisis y violencias que involucrarian al resto del mundo y durarian hasta 1945. Como ningun otro acontecimiento, ...
The lively, informative and incisive collection of essays sheds fascinating new light on the literary interrelations between Ireland, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Czech Republic. It charts a hitherto under-explored history of the reception of modern Irish culture in Central and Eastern Europe and also investigates how key authors have been translated, performed, and adapted. The work of Jonathan Swift, John Millington Synge, Flann O'Br ...
This companion offers a critical overview of a great part of the literary oeuvre of the acclaimed Mozambican writer and historian Joao Paulo Borges Coelho. It focuses on a multiplicity of elements central to his literary project, underscoring the originality and complexity of one of the most prominent authors from the Portuguese-speaking world. With contributions from scholars hailing from different academic disciplines including history, this c ...
The book presents a close reading of specific texts, allowing an introduction to the Brazilian novel from a comparative perspective.Chapters explore the links between themes, narrative paradigms, and techniques of Brazilian, European and North American novels and the development of the Brazilian novel.Contributors reflect on both canonical and lesser-known Brazilian works: from the first novel by an Afro-Brazilian woman, Maria Firmina dos Reis’s ...
Gute Geschichten und ein schmackhaftes Abendmahl erwarmen das Herz. Doch hilft das nicht, wenn die Nacht so furchtbar kalt ist. Die drei Herren versuchen, ein erfrischendes morgendliches Bad zu vermeiden – was nicht allen gelingt. Diese Horspielfassung wurde von Katrin Wiegand – bekannt von der Ferienbande – geschrieben und ist durch den gleichnamigen Roman von Jerome K. Jerome inspiriert. ...
