La Prosa hispanoamericana

Eamonn Wall arrived in the United States in the 1980s as part of a wave of young, educated immigrants who became known as the "New Irish." In this book he comments on his own experiences and those of his generation, who identify as much with contemporary ethnic and immigrant America as they do with the long-settled Irish American community. Wall's starting point is the now-closed Sin-é Café in New York's East Village, which was a hangout in the early 1990s for expatriate Irish musicians, actors, and writers. He comments on the poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs of both the New Irish and...

Tanto por su antiguedad como por su singularidad, la historia de Tristan e Iseo es uno de los mitos de amor de mayor difusion universal. Su excepcional fortuna en el ambito de las literaturas romanicas responde al hecho de que, desde la segunda mitad del siglo XII, su prosificacion en todas las lenguas literarias de la Europa medieval fuera casi inmediata, apareciendo constantes alusiones a esta leyenda en canciones cultas y populares. Pero lo que verdaderamente hace inclasificable a esta historia dentro de la literatura cortes de la materia de Bretana es el haber dado paso a una nueva clase...

The author of short stories, novels and essays, Benítez Rojo is an atypical intellectual in the panorama of Cuban exile because he offers an original perspective of the past, present and future conflicts of this troubled and complex area. This literary biography tells of his journey from his emergence in the Cuban intellectual world in 1967 to his death in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2005.

A través de Suma crítica, Yurkievich perfila el proceso de la modernidad literaria en hispanoamericana, caracterizando sus etapas y sus escritores representativos: Darío, Lugones, Herrera y Reissig, López Velarde, Gabriela Mistral para el modernismo; Huidobro, Vallejo, Neruda, Girondo para la vanguardia. También concentra su atención representativa sobre esos persistentes polos de atracción que son Borges, Cortázar, Paz, Lezama Lima, Onetti y Felisberto Hernández.