Spanish Contemporary Poetry Spanish Contemporary Poetry: An Anthology presents a selection of Spanish peninsular poetry from the 1970s to the present day, with an introductory study of the most relevant poetic trends and poetic groups of the period, followed by guided and close readings of each poem. The anthology includes poems by twenty-two…
Jesuit Naturalists: Nature, Evangelization, And… The Jesuits that lived and worked in South America made important contributions to the knowledge about New World nature in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This knowledge was reflected in several published and unpublished natural histories, as well as in herbals and letters that circulated among the members of the…
Evolution I often said before starting, that I had no doubt I should frequently repent of the whole undertaking. So wrote Charles Darwin aboard The Beagle, bound for the Galapagos Islands and what would arguably become the greatest and most controversial discovery in scientific history. But the theory of evolution did…
The Rebellious Exquisite Cadaver Of Surrealist Heroism El rebelde cadaver exquisito de la heroicidad surrealista studies Surrealism as heroic discourse intended to articulate an immediate artistic response to the twentieth century modern culture. Surrealist heroism emerges as an attempt to vindicate the use of poetry as a vehicle for the liberation of the human spirit, in the…
