Espadaña y las vanguardias

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...

Aquests dos volums d'assajos tracten de diversos aspectes i autors de la literatura nord-americana, des dels orígens puritans fins als nostres dies. Des de la problemàtica de la possible elaboració d'un cànon literari nord-americà fins a, passant per autors com Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Thoreau, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Sinclair Lewis, Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, J. D. Salinger, John Steinbeck i William Kennedy, es presenta una visió d'aquesta literatura que té en compte els textos literaris dins del desenvolupament històric, polític i econòmic del país.

«Hiriart es nuestro gran ingenio y cualquier literatura mayor lo tendría, como lo tenemos nosotros, entre sus glorias vivas. Es didáctico, es mayéutico, es el antimaestro ante el Altísimo, además de ser persona sobria y especulador intransigente, disperso y mordaz.» Christopher Domínguez Michael Además de ser un magnífico poeta, narrador y dramaturgo, Hugo Hiriart fue un prolífico ensayista. Este segundo volumen de su biblioteca en Debolsillo incluye las obras El arte de perdurar, una serie de ensayos en los que el autor reflexiona en torno a la valía de una obra y la tan...