In the most famous travel stories, the object book was not always the original destination of this type of writing. Many of them were initially conceived as intimate diaries, personal memories, epistolary exchanges, travel records, scientific reports or journalistic reports, among other possibilities. On certain occasions, it has been the criticism itself that has recoveredSigue leyendo «Travel to write, write to travel»
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The mystery at home
The Cat Inside, by William S. Burroughs, is an intimate diary, barely dated, based on the narrator’s relationship with many cats that went through his life. His affection for cats is occasional, changing, multiple: there is no particular cat in which attention is focused, although it shows a certain predilection for Ruski, a cat «gray-blueSigue leyendo «The mystery at home»
Experiencing the philosophy
Although the life and trajectory of Søren Aabye Kierkegaard is well known, it is interesting to highlight some relevant biographical aspects since the first thing that is found in the Danish philosopher is that biographical readings can be made of all his works. Educated in Lutheranism, in the strong bourgeois imprint of the kingdom ofSigue leyendo «Experiencing the philosophy»
Write with the senses
My dog (female) Tulip, an autobiographical novel by J. R. Ackerley, is also an ethological study about the life of a particular Alsatian dog: the beloved and enigmatic Tulip. The story has as an almost exclusive motive the decipherment of the canine soul, sometimes with terrible anxieties when it comes to relating to the humanSigue leyendo «Write with the senses»
Anthropocentrism was always only of men
William Shakespeare is an undisputed exponent of the English Renaissance and his production collects and reworked the questions and contradictions that loom over the nature and function of men and women in society. Such is the case of the narrative poem The Rape of Lucrece. Shakespeare’s verses bring together the protagonist, her husband Collatine andSigue leyendo «Anthropocentrism was always only of men»
Do not forget
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in Eastern Europe the Jews suffered «pogroms» and poverty. The Japanese Russian War, on the other hand and the First World War had aggravated the situation, since many times, when the father died, the whole family was left without daily support, which often affected young women andSigue leyendo «Do not forget»
For the whims of humanity
José Saramago on a trip to Salzburg, Austria, went to a restaurant called «The Elephant» and, inside, stands before an important statue representing the journey of an elephant from Lisbon to Vienna. This encounter aroused a great curiosity that led him to know his story, but could not find too much information about it. Mainly,Sigue leyendo «For the whims of humanity»
First ideas to teach reading
In a study that evaluates the knowledge that is part of the process of child literacy in children of different social classes and its impact on the learning of literacy, children from sectors at socio-environmental risk are detected differ from their peers in all dimensions linguistics considered (writing functionality, writing system and oral language). TheSigue leyendo «First ideas to teach reading»
The trade of traveler
“And to begin again it was the most repeated task in the world. In fact, only there was the Repetition: in the beginning», say the narrator of Un Episodio en la Vida del Pintor Viajero (An episode in the life of the traveling painter) of César Aira. The novel assumes the form of a biographySigue leyendo «The trade of traveler»
The decline of anthropocentrism
The explorations of literary criticism, as well as the other disciplines dedicated to the analysis of various artistic practices, have been affected from some time with the weakening of anthropocentric perspectives. They have been forming, thus, an increasingly broad and heterogeneous conceptual corpus. If at first the reference field with which we intended to identifySigue leyendo «The decline of anthropocentrism»
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