Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (Madrid, 1562-Madrid, 1635). España. Nació en una familia modesta, estudió con los jesuitas y no terminó la universidad... en Alcalá de Henares, parece que por asuntos amorosos. Tras su ruptura con Elena Osorio (Filis en sus poemas), su gran amor de juventud, Lope escribió libelos contra la familia de ésta. Por ello fue procesado y desterrado en 1588, año en que se casó con Isabel de Urbina (Belisa). Pasó los dos primeros años en Valencia, y luego en Alba de Tormes, al servicio del duque de Alba. En 1594, tras fallecer su esposa y su hija, fue perdonado y volvió a Madrid. Allí tuvo una relación amorosa con una actriz, Micaela Luján (Camila Lucinda) con la que tuvo mucha descendencia, hecho que no impidió su segundo matrimonio, con Juana Guardo, del que nacieron dos hijos. Entonces era uno de los autores más populares y aclamados de la Corte. En 1605 entró al servicio del duque de Sessa como secretario, aunque también actuó como intermediario amoroso de éste. La desgracia marcó sus últimos años: Marta de Nevares una de sus últimas amantes quedó ciega en 1625, perdió la razón y murió en 1632. También murió su hijo Lope Félix. La soledad, el sufrimiento, la enfermedad, o los problemas económicos no le impidieron escribir.

It doesn't matter how you remember him--rockabilly rebel, all-American boy, B-movie idol, patriotic G.I., or Las Vegas superstar. Elvis Presley is the... most enduring image in American popular culture. This book explains why. Other authors have explored Elvis's life and music, but Erika Doss now examines his multifaceted image as the key to understanding the adulation that has survived his death. She has talked with fans and joined their clubs, studied their creations and made pilgrimages to Graceland, all to explore what these images mean to those who gaze upon them, make them, and collect them. In researching Elvis Culture, Doss discovered that the visual image of Elvis endures because it was so carefully constructed from the start. Sifting through the visual glut of Elvisiana, she looks at how fans collect, arrange, and display Elvis paraphernalia, make Elvis artwork, and participate in the annual August rituals of Elvis Week. By engaging in these acts, she explains, they continually reinvent Elvis to mesh with their own personal and social preferences and to keep his memory alive. Doss examines Elvis in specific contexts: as a religious icon honored in household shrines, as a focus of sexual fantasy for women and men (both straight and gay), as an inspiration for countless impersonators, and as an emblem of whiteness held in disdain by many blacks--despite his having crossed racial lines with his music. She also looks at how Elvis has become a sanitized, legally protected image controlled by Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc., which bans the sale of black velvet paintings and licenses his likeness around the world. As engrossing as it is informative, Elvis Culture strikingly demonstrates the power of the visual image in our culture and reveals much about American attitudes toward religion, sex, race, and celebrity-as well as about the construction of American identity in the late twentieth century. This book is part of the CultureAmerica series.

As the Middle East conflict enters its most violent phase, Tom Segev offers a lively, contentious polemic against cherished and rigid notions of... Israel's national unity and culture. In his many works of history, Tom Segev has challenged the entrenched understanding of crucial moments in Israel's past. Now, in a short, sharp, polemical book, Segev has turned his sights from Israeli history to confront some revered assumptions about the country today.Drawing on personal experience as well as all kinds of artifacts from Israeli popular culture -- shopping malls, fast food, public art, television, religious kitsch -- Segev offers a controversial point of view: the sweeping Americanization of the country, rued by most, has had an extraordinarily beneficial influence, bringing not only McDonald's and Dunkin' Donuts but the virtues of pragmatism, tolerance, and individualism. And, in the fierce battle over the future of Zionism, Segev welcomes the diffusion of national identity and ideology that has taken place in the last decade as a harbinger of a new spirit of compromise and openness. At a time of crisis, as Israelis and Palestinians retreat to their most embattled positions, Segev's colorful, provocative book is sure to spark heated debate.

“Sharp, clear-eyed interpretations of Zionism’s winding past and volatile present and the shifting pieces of Israeli society.” —The New York... Times Book Review Tom Segev, Israel’s best-known journalist-historian, here confronts cherished assumptions about the country today, in the process tipping a number of sacred cows. Drawing on personal experience as well as all kinds of artifacts from Israeli popular culture—shopping malls, fast food, public art, television, religious kitsch—he puts forward his controversial view that the sweeping Americanization of the country, rued by most, has had an extraordinarily beneficial influence, bringing not only McDonald’s and Dunkin’ Donuts but the virtues of pragmatism, tolerance, and individualism. Jumping into the fierce ideological battle over the future of Zionism, Segev welcomes the diffusion of ideology that has taken place in the last decade as the harbinger of a new spirit of compromise and openness.At a time of crisis, as Israelis and Palestinians retreat to their most embattled positions, Segev’s sharp, colorful, and provocative book is sparking heated debate.

A fast-paced mystery for beginning German students featuring private detective Helmut Müller, who's dolled himself up as Elvis to enjoy Cologne's famed... Karneval.Suddenly his assistant Bea is missing, along with some money and ... Level one difficulty.

A vibrant, sympathetic portrait of the once and future king of rock ?n? roll by the award-winning author of Shiloh and In Country To this clear-eyed... portrait of the first rock ?n? roll superstar, Bobbie Ann Mason brings a novelist?s insight and the empathy of a fellow Southerner who, from the first time she heard his voice on the family radio, knew that Elvis was ?one of us.? Elvis Presley deftly braids the mythic and human aspects of his story, capturing both the charismatic, boundary-breaking singer who reveled in his celebrity and the soft-spoken, working-class Southern boy who was fatally unprepared for his success. The result is a riveting, tragic book that goes to the heart of the American dream.

An irresistible novel about a force derived from the dark face of desire and power. Between Camargo, a powerful director of a reputable newspaper in... Buenos Aires, and Reina, a journalist half his age, arises a passion that leads him to a dangerous game of obsession. The intrigues and the erotic suspense fill this story with dominations, and corruptions until its shocking end. His arrogance and his blindness sink him in a love story that will forever change his life. Spanish Description: El todopoderoso director de un diario de Buenos Aires se obsesiona por Reina Remis, una periodista de talento a la que dobla en edad. Su soberbia le impide ver que los sentimientos ajenos no estan bajo su dominio, y esa ceguera lo sume en una historia de amor de la que saldra transfigurado. A partir de esa intriga clasica, Tomas Eloy Martinez construye una novela irresistible sobre el deseo, el poder y la identidad. Casi todo lo que sucede, sucede dos veces, de un modo siempre mas oscuro y deconcertante. La corrupcion politica y la impunidad en un país que se va viniendo abajo, y el creciente delirio erotico, van dibujando un friso cuyo final, imprevisible, arrastra a los lectores otra vez a la primera linea del libro, atrapados por una historia que se parece tanto a la vida.

The Flight An odd drug dealer is hired to transport cocaine from Panama. His trips to the south, in addition to the void that threatens his... relationship with an enigmatic young woman, will fuel this hallucinatory experience. The Flight is a novel in which a group of antiheroes (dealers, dissolute women, addicts, paltry journalists, politicians, and high-flying criminals) abandon themselves to events in environments as oneiric as they are decadent. Their purpose is to postpone death. No more and no less.

El vuelo marco un punto de inflexion en la investigacion de los crimenes de la dictadura y en su persecucion penal. Valiendose de esta obra nacieron los... juicios por la verdad, que a su vez fueron de una importancia vital para abrir una brecha en el cerco de impunidad conformado por las leyes de punto final y obediencia debida y los indultos.

Zarco the Blue-eyed Bandit (1901) by the Mexican nationalist Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (1843–1893) is one of the earliest Latin American novels... written by an Indian. Altamirano, whose childhood language was Nahuatl, received one of the finest educations available in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico and rose to the highest political and cultural echelons of Mexico. One of the most famous men of his age (along with the Indian president, Benito Juárez, who appears in Zarco), Altamirano was a battle-tested soldier, a fiery political militant, and the mentor of the generation of writers who came of age at the turn of the century. Zarco tells the story of an honorable and courageous Indian blacksmith who falls in love with a haughty village girl, only to have her elope with the cold-blooded bandit, “Zarco Blue Eyes.” Based on major and minor real-life historical characters and incidents, the novel’s romantic narrative is accompanied by scenes of stark violence and vigilantism, as private citizens take the law into their hands to pursue and exterminate roaming bands of criminals that are terrorizing rural Mexico. Full of color, drama, and historical detail, Zarco the Blue-eyed Bandit is essential reading for readers interested in Mexican history, banditry, and the Indian question."Nineteenth-century Mexico comes alive in this elegantly crafted melodrama, a bridge to understanding the period's traditional gender roles, its stark moral divides, and, particularly, its harsh racial hierarchies. Ignacio Altamirano was one of several Latin American novelists who escaped the ideological grip of scientific racism long before the region’s essayists and scientists could do so. Novelists did not have to disprove prevailing racist notions in order to escape them in fiction. They could create characters who defied racial stereotypes, appealing to their readers to recognize the truth of their depictions despite the pronouncements of prestigious European white supremacists. Not to be missed!"—John Charles Chasteen, Patterson distinguished professor of history, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Soldado en la Revolucion de Ayutla, en la guerra de Reforma y en la Intervencion Francesa; miembro del parlamento; periodista; funcionario publico y... docente, Ignacio M. Altamirano ademas fue un hombre de letras: poesia, novela, critica y cronica tuvieron en el a un representante notable.Altamirano toma de la realidad los elementos con que elabora sus obras: historia, paisajes, costumbres, recuerdos personales; y construye un mundo que permite la idealizacion amorosa, la utopia social o la leccion moralizadora.El Zarco es un espejo de lo que fue Mexico en un momento dado, refleja con elocuencia donde esta la verdad y donde el error para encontrar el camino cierto que pueda llevar a la reconstruccion de la patria.En La Navidad en las montanas el autor evoca su pueblo, su familia, las costumbres de Navidad, y el sentimiento de piedad cristiana que el anora. Dentro del desarrollo de la historia, deja ver un programa social que busca la consolidacion economica y la unidad politica del pais.

Esta edición de El zorro... de Arguedas, coordinada por la investigadora Eve-Marie Fell, presenta al lector una serie de trabajos que abordan esta obra... y la vida del autor a partir de distintas perspectivas del tema: literaria, sociológica, histórica, e, incluso, psicológica. El estudio, respaldado por notas, una cronología, un glosario de voces andinas y algunas cartas que escribió el poeta suicida, abarca la historia de la novela y su publicación póstuma, así como su recepción crítica y un análisis de su estética.