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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...

The Ties That Bind comprises the first collection of critical essays that explore the family system in Spanish and Latin American culture. This thought-provoking volume addresses the intersection of language, narrative structure, social reality, and family dynamics through examples from a diverse range of literary works, including Cervantes' Don Quijote, Reinaldo Arenas' Celestino antes del alba, and the Chicano film My Family/Mi Familia. Issues of feminism, gender and sexuality, abuse, trauma, and communication take the forefront in this ground-breaking book, which takes psychological...

This collection of essays presents views on Don Quijote by noted Latin American philosophers, historians, sociologists, poets, and novelists. It intends to make the student of Hispanic culture aware of the profound love and admiration that Hispanic America has always demonstrated toward Cervantes and his masterpiece. Until now, the contributions of Latin American intellectuals to Cervantine studies have largely been ignored in publications in the United States. Written in Spanish, this text will be useful to the student and scholar of Hispanic literature and Latin American Studies.

Tras la Primera Guerra Mundial, Zweig se traslada a Salzburgo, mientras se forjaba la destrucción del sueño humanista en Europa. Allí escribe este libro, donde reúne catorce momentos vivos y ejemplares que marcaron la vida de la cultura y del ser humano. Como un cronista ejemplar y con el estilo clásico de la literatura de aventuras, Zweig parece asistir a los acontecimientos que narra, sufre con ellos y participa de sus éxtasis: la mirada de Lenin en el tren hacia San Petersburgo, el ansia de vivir de Händel cuando compone El Mesías, la contemplación de los dos océanos por Núñez...