Ensayos semióticos: teoría, mito, literatura

Los cuentos de Dostoievski son una lección sobre las pasiones del hombre y la sociedad que le rodea. En estos, el lector encontrará la misma grandeza de sus novelas, aunque con mayor agudeza, así como su característica vena humorística e irónica, su sarcasmo frente a la tragedia y su miedo a lo desconocido y a la muerte. Escritos entre 1845 y 1877, cuando comenzó la redacción de "Los hermanos Karamazov", los relatos aparecen de manera cronológica con el fin de observar el cambio paulatino de sus temas y formas. Así, los seguidores del escritor ruso, encontrarán aquí, entre otros,...

Colombia produced one of the richest literatures of Latin America, as much for its abundance as for its variety and innovation during the 19th century. This value has been unknown due to subsequent writers and critics that rejected the importance of this literature and influenced readers to ignore this literary production as noteworthy. In the same way, this lack of recognition has been perpetuated by the absence of information of the literary works produced during the 19th century and has hampered the investigation and research of new generations of readers. Therefore, this Bibliography of...

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...