Índice onomástico, toponímico y bibliográfico de las Cartas de jesuitas, 1634-1648

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...

This book offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date, multidisciplinary approach to the work of Galician jongleur Martin Codax and the Vindel Parchment. This medieval manuscript with the texts of seven cantigas de amigo by Martin Codax and the music score of six of them, is a philological gem that underwent numerous vicissitudes. The current volume comprises eighteen chapters dealing in depth with Codax's work and the Vindel Parchment from five basic perspectives: literature; linguistics, codicology and ecdotics; music; history and reception of the Vindel Parchment; and the historical...

Libro informativo sobre el agua: el ciclo del agua, los ríos, los mares y océanos, la energía del agua...

Este antimanual arremete contra muchas de las ideas preconcebidas que suelen empantanar la discusión en torno al libro y la lectura. Sin temor a ser calificado de políticamente incorrecto y apoyándose en su profundo conocimiento del tema, Juan Domingo Argüelles cuestiona la validez de afirmaciones que la mayoría considera indudables, como la de que el libro, por sí solo, transforma y mejora a todas las personas. En este mismo sentido, considerar a la lectura como un hábito que de manera necesaria eleva moralmente al individuo representa, para él, una noble utopía o un generoso...

This study uses a novel by Guatemalan writer Asturias, winner of the 1967 Nobel prize, to analyze the construction of Guatemalan identity at the end of the 1940s and to consider the factors involved in representing a Third World country.