El conocimiento organizado de un hombre de Trento. La biblioteca de Pedro del Frago, obispo de Huesca, en 1584

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 ...

Jorge Volpi (México, D. F., 1968) estudió Derecho y Letras en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Doctor en Filología Hispánica por la Universidad de Salamanca, es autor de seis novelas A pesar del oscuro silencio (1992), Días de ira (1994), La paz de los sepulcros (1995), El temperamento melancólico (1995), Sanar tu piel amarga (1997), En busca de Klingsor (1999) y El fin de la locura , de volúmenes de cuentos y de los ensayos La imaginación y el poder.Una historia intelectual de 1968 (1998) y La guerra y las palabras.Una historia intelectual de 1994 (2004). En 1994 formó...

Annotation Between 1605 and 1621, Quevedo wrote a sequence of five "Dreams" or "Visions" "(Suenos y discursos), in each of which he hilariously envisions Spanish society as populated by people rightfully condemned to Hell. These astonishingly witty and irreverent satires of contemporary Spanish culture, morality, prejudice and religious fanaticism, were composed in a style as allusive, elliptical and equivocal as to successfully entertain both those who barely understood their full range and import, and others who celebrated the poet's rebellious insinuations. Censorship prohibited the...

Estudio crítico de la literatura contemporánea chinoamericana. Desde los procesos de construcción de conceptos tales como género, raza e identidad étnica, la explosión nos conduce a una teoría de la constelación de diferencias lejanas a la intolerancia y cercana al mestizaje de culturas.