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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...

Si la literatura es una de las herramientas que la sociedad utiliza para construir su identidad, un espejo en el que mirarse y reconocerse, esta propuesta nace de un intento de saber cuál sería la respuesta de la literatura a la pregunta de quiénes somos. El crítico y editor Constantino Bértolo despliega en esta obra su extensa experiencia, su profundo conocimiento de las letras españolas y una capacidad de análisis acerada para ofrecer un recorrido en clave histórico-crítica de la literatura producida durante el siglo xx, ahora que ya ha pasado suficiente tiempo como para volver la...

Las letras y Latinoamérica se comunican en estos textos. Historia, identidad, paternidad, muerte y crítica son los temas que derivan y lo aquí reunido representa el ejercicio de una psicoanalítica de las letras en la América llamada “moderna”.

C sar Vallejo is one of the finest poets of Latin America, and his poetry has managed to maintain a broad readership base right up until the modern day. Since Vallejo's posthumous poems were first published in 1939 in an edition supervised by his widow, Georgette de Vallejo, there remain to this day a number of unanswered questions about them. In what order did Vallejo write the poems? Would he have published the poems as they are? This book, by a careful analysis of the evidence available, proposes a new chronology for the posthumous poems, suggesting that the Peruvian poet's work went...