El conocimiento organizado de un hombre de Trento. La biblioteca de Pedro del Frago, obispo de Huesca, en 1584

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) spoke of the promiscuity of art and literature the willingness of great artists and writers to scandalize their spectators through critical frankness, complexity, and beauty. Sontag's life and thought were no less promiscuous. She wrote deeply and engagingly about a range of subjects theater, sex, politics, novels, torture, and illness and courted celebrity and controversy both publicly and privately. Throughout her career, she not only earned adulation but also provoked scorn. Her living was the embodiment of scandal. In this collection, Terry Castle, Nancy K....

Este antimanual arremete contra muchas de las ideas preconcebidas que suelen empantanar la discusión en torno al libro y la lectura. Sin temor a ser calificado de políticamente incorrecto y apoyándose en su profundo conocimiento del tema, Juan Domingo Argüelles cuestiona la validez de afirmaciones que la mayoría considera indudables, como la de que el libro, por sí solo, transforma y mejora a todas las personas. En este mismo sentido, considerar a la lectura como un hábito que de manera necesaria eleva moralmente al individuo representa, para él, una noble utopía o un generoso...

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...

An examination of the form and significance of the 56 short narratives of Ramon Gomez de la Serna, based on a review of his own theoretical views on narrative, derived from his essays, prologues and vignettes, related in turn to theories of the modern novella developed by Gillespie et al.