Aschenkindel. El cuento recontado

Visión de conjunto del formalismo, sus perspectivas teóricas y sus relaciones conceptuales con otras corrientes del pensamiento crítico.

En este libro se indaga la presencia del autor norteamericano William Faulkner en la novelística latinoamericana, propiamente en los escritores del Boom cuyas producciones se dieron en las décadas de los años cincuenta y sesenta, pues, en parte influidos por él, introdujeron una nueva y revolucionaria sensibilidad en el ámbito narrativo. Nuestros escritores se identificaron con el ambiente de pobreza imperante y de abandono que resume el entorno faulkneriano –que también se aviene al desposeimiento del mundo latino– cuyos textos, al involucrar condiciones económicas y políticas...

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 book offers an in-depth, critical appreciation of seven major Spanish poets. Emphasis is on the modern period, with five of the poets being twentieth-century poets. It is argued that the roots of modern poetry are to be found in Romanticism's anguished search for meaning. The seven Spanish poets include Becquer, Rosalia de Castro, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillen, Pedro Salinas, Garcia Lorca and Rafael Alberti.