El relato del Uno y el Otro en Henao y Arrubla, Nicolás Gómez Dávila y Gabriel García Márquez

Canon y compromiso pudieran parecer dos categorías antitéticas, cuando menos a la luz de las premisas que sostienen el polémico concepto de canon divulgado por Harold Bloom. Este libro, en cambio, parte de la insoslayable imbricación de estética e ideología, o de la idea de la literatura como discurso ideológico, y pone en juego una noción de compromiso que conduce a superar las tradicionales dicotomías manejadas por el inconsciente artístico dominante, pureza/impureza, privado/público, intimidad/historia, y la querella resultante entre el canon poético y el compromiso. Desde...

In this book we're invited to choose words randomly, to count syllables, to let the stress in the words make its music, to give in to the meaning of words, to become readers of poetry, to spread the verses in Spanish that are ours and everybody's. Many wrongly believe that verses are written in a state of agitation, enthusiasm, or near-dementia, but, to the benefit of those trying to write their first poem, Hiriart proves that this is hardly ever the case. Great examples of poetry from classic and contemporary authors, and anecdotes and dialogues of great wit and precision, make this volume a ...

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...

Este libro surge de varias investigaciones anteriores en las que he podido comprobar los problemas que enfrentan los estudiantes para realizar tareas relacionadas con la lectura. Al realizar historias escolares con estudiantes de bachillerato y con adultos económicamente activos, me pude percatar de las deficiencias de la enseñanza en diferentes niveles escolares y la falta de formación de los profesores, quienes reconocen el déficit lector pero no saben cómo resolverlo.