Cómo lee un buen escritor

Author and Professor Dr. Pablo Valdivia analyzes the contradictions and complexities of the Spanish traditional canon from a transnational approach. Valdivia explores this particular canon as a 'haunted house' by focusing on the specific dialectics of presence, absence and (in)visibilization offered in relevant case studies: Jose Ricardo Morales, Cervantes or Jesus Carrasco, among others. Under the new term of 'disinherited literature', Valdivia advocates for coining critical categories that enrich the study of Spanish texts and shed new light on their radical specificities far from biased...

Los indices de libros prohibidos fueron un instrumento capital de represion de la cultura escrita, pero no el unico. Este volumen se propone llevar a cabo un acercamiento a la historia literaria espanola de los siglos XVI y XVII que atiende, sobre todo, al clima intelectual de recelo ante la lectura y a los modos de control de los manuscritos e impresos. Los estudios aqui reunidos evaluan el impacto censorio en los generos mas importantes de la literatura y el pensamiento aureos: en el teatro, el poema lirico, la ficcion sentimental, la literatura obscena, la literatura espiritual, la...

Text and illustrations explain the structure of plants, how they grow and reproduce, and their importance in nature.

"Although there are other works on the linguistic interactions between the English and Spanish languages inside the Cuban community in the Greater Miami area, this book is an all encompassing study that lets us see where the language stands today, using recent trends that also let us project what will occur to the Spanish language in the near future.. At the same time, the book offers a clear picture, using current statistics, of what the Cuban community in Miami has accomplished in just four decades."