Historias de acá y de allá. 25 autores iberoamericanos de narrativa para niños

Los trabajos que se incluyen en este libro fueron expuestos por sus autores en el VII Curso de Literatura Infantil que, con el mismo título, se celebró en el Vicerrectorado de Extensión Universitaria de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, con sede en el campus de Cuenca, los días 4 y 5 de julio de 1996. El libro ofrece diversos estudios, trabajos y reflexiones tanto sobre el mundo de la animación a la lectura como sobre la creación de hábitos lectores estables en la población infantil y juvenil: la lectura ideal, la selección de libros, la biblioteca como espacio motivador, la...

Ángel Cuervo fue uno los intelectuales que conformaron el escenario de la cultura colombiana de las cuatro últimas décadas del siglo xix ; desde allí participó en las discusiones que definieron, por aquel entonces, los rumbos del pensamiento moderno del país. Ángel Cuervo: perfiles de un intelectual moderno presenta un acercamiento a sus ideas, expresadas en artículos de prensa, ensayos, cuentos, poesías, cuadros de costumbres y reseñas literarias que publicó en diarios capitalinos y revistas extranjeras, así como en comedias, novelas y monografías de tipo histórico; de igual...

Fray Luis de Len (1527-91) is known chiefly as the author of some of the finest poetry of the Spanish Golden Age, but he also wrote important prose works in both Latin and Spanish, and produced eloquent translations into Spanish of biblical and classical texts. He spent five years imprisoned in solitary confinement by the Spanish Inquisition, fighting to clear himself of a series of accusations against his views on the Bible. Acquitted on all counts, he returned to teach at the University of Salamanca. This book examines the controversies in which Fray Luis was caught up, and investigates the ...

Within the historic events in the 1930's Spain, among whose most important outcome stands the triumph of the Spanish Second Republic (1931), Jose Diaz Fernandez released his book of essays, El Nuevo Romanticismo (The New Romanticism), a compendium of his observations on art, literature, feminism, liberalism, and politics, all five understood as parts of the vital and social processes. Besides being a panoramic scan of the issues that marked the Spanish and European culture during the period between wars, this book expresses a defined will to guide the artistic Avant Gardes and to consolidate...

The central component of this study is an index of the numerous motifs through which topoi of the text as symbol are articulated in the religious poetry, sermons, and sacramental plays of Golden Age Spain. Paired with the index is an anthology of the texts on which the book is based. In her introduction, Louise Salstad discusses the transmission and transformation of the topoi as they appear in the Old and New Testaments, classical literature, church writings, and medieval texts, and she considers the influence of the contemporary milieu on the shaping of these motifs. The book also includes...