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Through a study of literature, the social and cultural issues that help form the identity of a people can be revealed and examined. The ten essays in Temas del comercio y la economía en la narrativa hispana investigate the relation between the Hispanic narrative and the economic and commercial concerns of Spanish-speaking peoples around the world from a variety of historical periods. Balancing a study of writers' perspectives on current economic conditions with a look at literary versions of economic events, this anthology provides a window into Hispanic culture for both the student of...

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 sexto y último tomo de la Historia comparada de las literaturas argentina y brasileña se ocupa del período que se extiende entre 1970 y 2010. Este momento de la historia se corresponde a la expansión y consolidación de varios fenómenos que se difundieron a través de las industrias culturales en auge. De ese amplio catálogo participan la crítica instalada como género, los coletazos del boom de los 60 que redundan en el despliegue de un público lector creciente (con Cortázar y Amado como autores emblemáticos), la historieta en tanto cruce de códigos que da cuenta del contexto ...

Buero attaches great relevance to the power of madness and dreams, and makes use of what he regards as one of Cervantes' greatest achievements: the fusion of fantasy and reality.