Mario Bellatin y las formas de la escritura

El muralismo mexicano es uno de los movimientos artísticos de mayor impacto y trascendencia en América Latina, y marca un periodo fundacional en la cultura mexicana. Este sentido fundacional aparece desde sus inicios, pues cuando el filósofo José Vasconcelos es nombrado Secretario de Instrucción Pública (1921-1924), e invita a varios artistas a pintar sobre las paredes de diversas instituciones del gobierno, la idea de fondo era refundar la nación mexicana a través de las artes, ya que el país se hallaba fragmentado después de los años de la Revolución. Pero en la batalla por...

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...

Unique in coverage, this comprehensive one-volume anthology of Latin American literature, from pre-Columbian times to the present, covers not only the authors accepted within the literary canon, but innovative contemporary voices that are now breaking the ethnocentric mold.

Este ensayo profundiza en facetas hasta ahora inéditas de Luis Cernuda, contribuyendo a compensar decisivamente el relativo olvido en que se ha tenido a este autor.

"First-person narrative does not always fall under the genre of autobiography. In the centuries before the genre was defined, authors often patterned their personal narratives after prestigious discourses, such as hagiography, historiography, and the literary miscellany.Caballero noble desbaratado: Autobiografía e invención en el siglo XVI: "Noble Knight Disrupted: Autobiography and Invention in the Sixteenth Century analyzes several first-person narratives from Spain and the conditions of their writing and reception. It focuses on the sixteenth-century Libro de la vida y costumbres (Book...