Alejo Carpentier. La facultad mayor de la cultura

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A study of letter-writing in Renaissance Spain. The subject of this book is the art of letter-writing in the Renaissance period, which, particularly in the case of Spain, has been unjustly neglected. The first part examines two major sixteenth-century treatises on letter-writing, Erasmus's Opus de conscribendis epistolis (1522) and Juan Luis Vives's De conscribendis epistolis(1536), concluding that the two were composed independently, rather than one being derived from the other. The author goes on to look at two important collections of letters, Fray Antonio de Guevara's Epístolas...

Peter Pan was born over a century ago. There is something doubly contradictory in this phrase that, although true, is also the reason why this book has been released. We are talking about the boy who will never grow up and the fact that he is celebrating his hundredth birthday should provoke some surprise. At the same time, he is such a powerful icon that it is also true that he seems to have been there, floating in our culture, reappearing in its images, since time immemorial - much farther back than the early twentieth century. This book shows that, although he considered dying to be an...

Dotada de una extraordinaria capacidad para comunicar conceptos profundos a través de imágenes sugerentes, Graciela Montes ha acompañado su obra creativa con una producción ensayística en la que problematiza su propia labor y el campo de la literatura y la edición. En este libro analiza el entrecruzamiento de la historia de la infancia y la literatura para niños, y pone en relieve las posibilidades generadoras de las relaciones niño-adulto y realidad-fantasía.