Examen de ingenios para las ciencias

As part of the larger, ongoing movement throughout Latin America to reclaim non-Hispanic cultural heritages and identities, indigenous writers in Mexico are reappropriating the written word in their ancestral tongues and in Spanish. As a result, the long-marginalized, innermost feelings, needs, and worldviews of Mexico's ten to twenty million indigenous peoples are now being widely revealed to the Western societies with which these peoples coexist. To contribute to this process and serve as a bridge of intercultural communication and understanding, this groundbreaking anthology—to be...

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett –Lord Dunsany (1878-1957)–, heredero de una de las baronías más antiguas de Inglaterra, estudió en Eton y participó como oficial en la guerra Anglo-Boer y en la Primera Guerra Mundial. Tradujo a Horacio y enseñó literatura inglesa en Atenas, de donde escapó poco antes de la invasión nazi. Escribió poesía, ensayo y novela, y conoció además enorme éxito como dramaturgo. Es considerado como el primer escritor de cuentos de fantasía para adultos, y como tal fue admirado por autores de la talla de Lovecraft, Tolkien y Borges. Sobre su labor como...

Antecedentes, circunstancias y hechos históricos de un caballero placentino, comendador mayor de la orden militar de Alcántara, siempre al servicio de emperador Carlos V, con las armas, las letras y la diplomacia.

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