Entre lo Local y lo Global

Este libro está concebido como instrumento de aprendizaje para estudiantes de cualquier literatura. Su objetivo es hacer más comprensibles los recursos y técnicas utilizados en los textos narrativos y, con ellos, aprender a profundizar en la lectura de los mismos. Conocer instrumentos de análisis es imprescindible para los alumnos que quieran mejorar su forma de leer. El modelo de análisis empleado incorpora las mejores aportaciones de la narratología y la pragmática de los últimos años, pero de la forma más sencilla posible, de manera que el lector no se sienta agobiado por...

This volume of collected essays explores the premise that Plutarch's work, notwithstanding its amazing thematic multifariousness, constantly pivots on certain ideological pillars which secure its unity and coherence. So, unlike other similar books which, more or less, concentrate on either the Lives or the Moralia or on some particular aspect(s) of Plutarch's oeuvre, the articles of the present volume observe Plutarch at work in both Lives and Moralia, thus bringing forward and illustrating the inner unity of his varied literary production. The subject-matter of the volume is uncommonly...

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...

Juan's father, a fisherman, is caught in a storm and returns very ill. Guided by his friend, the Moon, Juan takes a magical trip to the bottom of the sea and recaptures his father's health from an ornery octopus.