El cuento folclórico en la literatura y en la tradición oral

This study breaks new ground in García Márquez studies by focusing on the author's journalistic writings between 1948 and 1955. By using a combination of modern critical methods, including narratology, dialogism and transtextuality, this study shows how García Márquez' early journalism laid the foundations for his later fiction writing. This work provides an exhaustive, coherent and comprehensive analysis of a neglected area of the Colombian author's writing. This study shows that García Márquez is a bigeneric writer, a journalist-fiction writer, who constantly combines genres in his...

Juan's father, a fisherman, is caught in a storm and returns very ill. Guided by his friend, the Moon, Juan takes a magical trip to the bottom of the sea and recaptures his father's health from an ornery octopus.

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...

Nueva edición, corregida y aumentada, de De los libros al poder, de Gabriel Zaid. En 1932, Alfonso Reyes veía en el mundo "un paulatino advenimiento al poder de las clases universitarias". Y así fue en México, donde la oligarquía revolucionaria cedió voluntariamente el poder a una nueva oligarquía universitaria. Para 1987, según el Diccionario biográfico del gobierno mexicano, de los 1,156 funcionarios más altos del poder ejecutivo, el 98% tenía licenciaturas (más de la mitad en la UNAM) y el 48% postgrados (más de la mitad en el extranjero). El 70% tenía experiencia académica...