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by Alberto Giordano
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Cuando se piensa en la forma del ensayo, la crítica busca hacer legibles los interrogantes que plantea la existencia de lo literario (¿cómo decir lo irrepetible?, ¿cómo ponerse a salvo de los estereotipos?) y proyectarlos sobre el entramado de las prácticas y las instituciones culturales, para...
by Julio Scherer García
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Antología de tres entrevistas que hiciera el periodista Julio Scherer a Octavio Paz: "Suma y sigue", "Tela de juicios" y "El valor del tiempo", y el ensayo de Julio Scherer sobre el último encuentro que tuvo con el poeta, titulado "Un testimonio". Es un texto...
Historia de la literatura gay en la argentina
Representaciones sociales de la homosexualidad masculina en la ficción literaria
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
¿Qué es la literatura gay o literatura homosexual? ¿Es la literatura gay la escrita por escritores/as gay? ¿O es la literatura que trata el tema de la homosexualidad? ¿O se requieren ambos requisitos para pertenecer al género? ¿Es obligación ético-política de un/a escritor/a gay/lesbiana...
by Bartolomé de las Casas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The treaties of Bartolomé de las Casas are arguments in favor of the Indians; the best known of these, Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias, was not published until 1552. Along with passages like the above, with passionate descriptions of the New World, Bartolomé de las Casas reflects on the Conquest and its aftermath.
by Hernando Colón
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
La Historia del almirante no se publicó en vida de Hernando Colón, el manuscrito pasó a María de Toledo, su cuñada, la esposa de Diego Colón. Luego Luis Colón (hijo de Diego) lo entregó al genovés Baliano de Fornari. Este lo llevó a Venecia, donde fue impreso en 1571, con el título de Historie...
by Antonio de Solís
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2014
El estilo literario de la Historia de la conquista se anticipa al neoclasicismo, por lo que los autores del siglo XVIII tuvieron esta obra en gran estima. Se sabe que el autor escribió varias veces el texto. Sin embargo, al igual que López de Gómara, Solís nunca estuvo en América.
by Bartolomé de las Casas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Basta esta cita para comprender la idea del «buen gobierno» de los Incas descrita por Bartolomé de las Casas: Consideraba (...) la condición e inclinaciones de las gentes, y si entendía que eran orgullosos o inquietos, traía de otros pueblos, mayormente de los que tenía más conocidos y experimentados...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Panama Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected.
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by Steven Boldy
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
Jorge Luis Borges is one of the key writers of the twentieth century in the context of both Hispanic and world literature. This Companion has been designed for keen readers of Borges whether they approach him in English or Spanish, within or outside a university context. It takes his stories and essays...
José Lezama Lima's Joyful Vision
A Study of Paradiso and Other Prose Works
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Cuba’s José Lezama Lima became the most controversial figure in the flowering of the Latin American novel with the 1966 publication of Paradiso. Hailed as a seminal writer of breathtaking originality by Julio Cortázar, Octavio Paz, and Mario Vargas Llosa, Lezama was also attacked by the Castro regime...
by Paula Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
The Terror and the Time contributes to the ongoing project of mapping the myriad ways in which contemporary individual and social scenarios and suffering are rooted in unresolved traumas bequeathed by the origins of the new World societies of the Caribbean. This study traces legacies of enforced and...
by Clarice Lispector
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 1996
"Clarice Lispector was a born writer....she writes with sensuous verve, bringing her earliest passions into adult life intact, along with a child's undiminished capacity for wonder."—The New York Times Book Review
"In 1967, Brazil's leading newspaper asked the avant-garde writer...
The Poetics of Ethnography in Martinican Narratives
Exploring the Self and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Drawing on narratives from Martinique by Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant, Ina Césaire, and Patrick Chamoiseau, among others, Christina Kullberg shows how these writers turn to ethnography—even as they critique it—as an exploration and expression of the self. They acknowledge its tradition as...
Contemporary Mexican Women Writers
Five Voices
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Mexican women writers have moved to the forefront of their country's literature in the twentieth century. Among those who began publishing in the 1970s and 1980s are Maria Luisa Puga, Silvia Molina, Brianda Domecq, Carmen Boullosa, and Angeles Mastretta. Sharing a range of affinities while maintaining...