New Perspectives on Arabian Nights

Edición, traducción y comentario histórico del Carmen contra paganos, poema datado en el último tercio del siglo IV d.C. A pesar de su brevedad constituye uno de los más valiosos documentos para el estudio del ambiente religoso del Bajo Imperio presidido por el conflicto paganismo/cristianismo que enfrentó a la aristocracia senatorial, fiel a la tradición pagana, y una corte imperial progresivamente cristianizada.

Al principio de todo, los cuervos tenían un pelaje multicolor: eran rosas, lilas o verdes, a veces tenían topos o rayas según las diferentes familias. Los cuervos vivían juntos y felices, pero un día un muñeco de nieve hizo una pregunta fatídica: "¿Cómo

Gabriel García Márquez is considered one of the most significant authors in the Spanish language. Rising to prominence with One Hundred Years of Solitude, his fiction is widely read and studied throughout the world. This invaluable Guide gives a wide-ranging but in-depth survey of the global debate over García Márquez's fiction. It explores the major critical responses to his key works, devoting two whole chapters to One Hundred Years of Solitude. It also examines García Márquez's lesser-known short fiction, his place in the Boom, magical realism and his influence on other writers. Jay...

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...