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1) Ficciones narrativas sobre la identidad de América Latina en: El caballero de El Dorado y Cosas d
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Es un acercamiento a dos obras de Germán Arciniegas, El caballero de El Dorado y Cosas del pueblo: crónica de la historia vulgar, que analiza la importancia de los recursos empleados por el autor para que las figuras sin nombre, sin voz, invisibles en las historias oficiales pudieran emerger y que la cosmovisión de esos personajes, quehaceres, modos de vivir, formas de pensar, luchas y derrotas fueran recuperados, desde lo que puede denominarse...
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Get the Summary of Harold Bloom's The Western Canon in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Western Canon" by Harold Bloom is a comprehensive exploration of the literary works and authors that have shaped Western culture. Bloom delves into the concept of the Canon, emphasizing its evolution from a prescriptive list of essential readings to a more personal selection of literature that fosters individual connections....
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Learn all Amy March and her real-life inspiration May Alcott Nieriker and the harmful things that follow when one self-inserts themselves into but also the misconceptions about Jo´s insecurities and especially about her looks. Society likes to put two characters against one another but is this true to reality? Find out that and more in the Little Women podcast.Little Women Podcast is an ongoing series of video essays, articles and podcast episodes...
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Daniel, por su apoyo, su inmenso cariño y por ser el único hombre que me hace reír de verdad. Mi Xiuma, por leerme y por ser mi fan número uno. Dayana Paradas, por ser la primera en leerme y siempre estar allí para mí. Mi mami, por impulsarme a creer en mí. Mis fieles lectoras. Gracias, chicas… muchas gracias. Mis hijos. Esto es para ustedes. Los amo con el alma y con todo mi corazón. Son mi más grande orgullo y espero ser la...
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Jorge Isaacs: El caballero de los enigmas está centrado en los grandes interrogantes que no han dejado de rodear a Jorge Isaacs, personaje envuelto en los velos de múltiples leyendas. Con celo admirable, movido por el deseo de indagar sobre el autor, o supuesto autor de María, Ramiro Martínez Gutiérrez se dio durante años a la tarea de reunir en esta publicación precisamente aquellos asuntos enigmáticos relativos a la vida y obra del escritor...
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El señor Sacramento Heredero ha mantenido por años algo que, dicho sin subentendidos malévolos, puede ser catalogado como "doble vida". Es así, es un hecho objetivo, no teñido de carga moral alguna. En efecto, a lo largo de su existencia ha logrado pulir, como si fuera una moneda sagrada, una reputación brillante de contador experto en asuntos tributarios. Es el lado visible de su luna. En su oficina, multiplicada como en espejos móviles por...
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The influential and controversial critic takes literary history out of the classroom and into the public
In the field of literary history and theory, Franco Moretti is synonymous with innovation. The cofounder of the Stanford Literary Lab, he brought quantitative methods into the study of the novel, enabling a "distant" reading that uses computation to analyze literary production over centuries. But at the same time, he was also teaching undergraduates...
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A masterful work by a master poet, this brilliant summation of poetry and human nature will speak to all readers who long to place poetry in their lives.
How to Read a Poem is an unprecedented exploration of poetry and feeling. In language at once acute and emotional, National Book Critics Circle award-winning distinguished poet and critic Edward Hirsch describes why poetry matters and how we can open up our imaginations so that its message can...
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Modern Literature has diversified into comparative literature and African Literature has become quite important in this field. This is because it not only tries to rewrite a lot about Africa which was biased according to Eurocentric writers but also because it incorporates a lot of issues uniquely African. These may have to do with the traditional African Societies as well as the evolution of new so-called modern African societies, more oriented to...
10) Why Poetry
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An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry's accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder
In Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry-and poetry alone-can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. In lively, lilting prose, he shows us how that misunderstanding...
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A Student's Guide to Literature takes up these questions: In a time of mass culture and pulp fiction, can great literature still be discerned, much less defended? Why is literature so compelling? What should we read? Literary scholar R. V. Young addresses these timely issues in this guide to Western literature and poetry. He demonstrates that literature liberates the mind from cultural and temporal provincialism by expanding our intellectual and...
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Following the first book on John Steinbeck's The Pearl which examined the PLOT of the novella and the CHARACTERS, this book examines the THEMES and ELEMENTS OF STYLE. This allows the critic of the novella to have a comprehensive view of what the novella is about, how it is crafted, who the players are and what kind of style the novelist adopts. This should prepare any student of john Steinbeck in general or of this novel in particular, to answer any...
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Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes unpacks the interpretive problems of colonial treaty-making and uses them to illuminate canonical works from the period.
Classic American literature, Jerome McGann argues, is haunted by the betrayal of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Indian treaties-"a stunned memory preserved in the negative spaces of the treaty records." A noted scholar of the "textual conditions" of literature, McGann investigates...
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Studying short stories can seem a Herculean task especially when one does t for the first time. However, this need not be the case. This book examines the FIRST FIVE stories in A SILENT SONG AND OTHER STORIES ED. BY GODWIN SIUNDU by outlining the most crucial aspects of the short story - SETTING, CONFLICT, THEME and STYLE so that the reader examines them one by one. This makes the study of the short story both exciting and easy. Also, the book (and...
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Michael Lucey offers a linguistic anthropological analysis of Proust's In Search of Lost Time.
What happens when we talk? This deceptively simple question is central to Marcel Proust's monumental novel In Search of Lost Time. Both Proust's narrator and the novel that houses him devote considerable energy to investigating not just what people are saying or doing when they talk, but also what happens socioculturally through their use of language....
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A history of the idea of "relevance" since the nineteenth century in art, criticism, philosophy, logic, and social thought.
Before 1800 nothing was irrelevant. So argues Elisa Tamarkin's sweeping meditation on a key shift in consciousness: the arrival of relevance as the means to grasp how something that was once disregarded, unvalued, or lost to us becomes interesting and important. When so much makes claims to our attention every day, how...
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¿Siempre has soñado con escribir tu propio libro, pero no sabes por dónde empezar? ¡Esta guía es para ti! "De la Idea a la Página" te llevará de la mano a lo largo de todo el proceso de escritura y publicación de tu libro. Desde la concepción de la idea hasta la promoción en línea, descubrirás las estrategias y consejos esenciales para convertirte en un autor exitoso. ¿Te imaginas ver tu nombre en la portada de un libro? Esta guía te...
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From comic books to summer blockbusters, all people enjoy art in some form or another. However, few of us can effectively explain why certain books, movies, and songs resonate so profoundly within us. In Echoes of Eden, Jerram Barrs helps us identify the significance of artistic expression as it reflects the extraordinary creativity and unmatched beauty of the Creator God. Additionally, Barrs provides the key elements for evaluating and defining great...
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Hans Rookmaaker's impact on the arts in the twentieth century was enormous. His wide range of intellectual and cultural concerns led him to explore many aspects of art, music, and philosophy during his lifetime, and he made important contributions as an art historian, professor, mentor, thinker, and author.
Laurel Gasque examines Rookmaaker's life and shows how he incorporated his biblical beliefs into his teaching, writing, and interaction with the...
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From poetry to social networks, writing affects us all. Having taught the art of writing for years while producing literary works of national renown, Larry Woiwode thus explores the mysterious power of language, offering readers a diverse collection of thought-provoking essays on the meaning and significance of writing. In teaching the art of putting words on a page, Woiwode highlights the crucial role that writing plays in communicating with others...
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