Miradas cruzadas

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...

In the past decades, with the decline of the Grand Narratives and the subsequent need for new historical and political orientation, literary studies have been reflecting on the role of literature in the world. Together with Jacques Rancière—and in dialogue with Althusser, Foucault, or Fischer-Lichte—the present volume analyzes this political turn of literary studies.

En Modiano la figura del perro es a veces un explorador anímico en el deambular del protagonista por las calles de París, a veces un guía en la búsqueda fantasmagórica de personajes desaparecidos, en ocasiones un doble simbólico del narrador, cuando no del hermano muerto, e incluso de ambos, en un sujeto desdoblado que los aúna: el perro y yo / mi hermano y yo; de forma que la muerte del hermano y el temor a ser también él víctima del abandono familiar se expresan en su narrativa mediante el recuerdo encubridor de la muerte de un perro durante su infancia. La figura del perro se...

An intriguing study of The Da Vinci Code looks at the content, themes, real-life historical background and characters, and revelations of the best-selling novel.