Escrituras del territorio/ Territorios de la escritura

Mestizaje y criollismo en la literatura de la Nueva España del siglo XVI es un estudio de los cambios en el idioma y la literatura castellana y náhuatl a causa del proceso de expansión hispánica en el Anáhuac. Según el autor, los cambios en el hombre de esa época conllevan implícitamente a cambios no sólo de pensamiento, sino otros provocados por la transculturación (consecuencia directa del contacto con pueblos de otras lenguas). Para estudiar este proceso se basó especialmente en autores novohispanos por medio de un análisis y comparación de textos de los pueblos originarios de ...

Peter Pan was born over a century ago. There is something doubly contradictory in this phrase that, although true, is also the reason why this book has been released. We are talking about the boy who will never grow up and the fact that he is celebrating his hundredth birthday should provoke some surprise. At the same time, he is such a powerful icon that it is also true that he seems to have been there, floating in our culture, reappearing in its images, since time immemorial - much farther back than the early twentieth century. This book shows that, although he considered dying to be an...

This edited volume explores the ways in which Miguel de Cervantes adopted humanist positions, whether he submitted these to critical examination or made them the target of his satires. It tries to determine how familiar Cervantes was with the contemporary developments of humanism in different European countries, and if references to particular humanist thinkers can be identified in his work. The contributions gathered in this volume, all from acknowledged Cervantes experts, tackle among others the following questions: How does Cervantes analyse the humanist connexion between science and...

A romance between a priest and a nun-in-training leads to her pregnancy and his suicide. She is Gabriella Harrison, daughter of parents who abandoned her to a convent. The affair leads to her expulsion and she becomes a writer.