El escritor y la bailarina

En este novedoso y agudo estudio, Anke Birkenmaier muestra cómo, además de ser uno de los movimientos artísticos y literarios más importantes del siglo veinte, en los años 30 el surrealismo se alió a la entonces naciente cultura de masas. A partir de la trayectoria intelectual del cubano Alejo Carpentier, quien trabajó como libretista y profesional de la radio en Francia, Birkenmaier traza la fascinante historia de la época de entreguerras cuando franceses y latinoamericanos creían en el valor terapéutico de las yuxtaposiciones surrealistas y en la autoridad casi divina de la voz...

A beautiful metaphor about the history of mankind. Birds represent the ambitions of the people. Good intentions become perverted; but a gleam of hope shines on the horizon.

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...

Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this comparative study of a selection of The Arabian Nights stories in a cross-cultural context, brings together a number of disciplines and subject areas to examine the workings of narrative. It predominantly focuses on the ways in which the Arabian Nights have transformed as its stories have travelled across historical eras, cultures, genres and media. Departing from the familiar approaches of influence and textual studies, this book locates its central inquiry in the theoretical questions surrounding the workings of ideology, genre and genre ideology ...