Libro de las solapas

"As much as in other countries, there is a bildungsroman novel in Spanish America like the ones of Güiraldes, Vargas Llosa, and Pacheco. However, less studied is the same genre of novel written by women. Examines growing pains and search for freedom in a patriarchal society in the works of Elena Poniatowska, Rosario Castellanos, Claribel Alegría, Rosario Ferré, and Beatriz Guido. Interesting contribution to the growing body of studies on these writers"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Following studies by Goodman, Waley, and Darst, this new study of Garcilaso's work rejects as unfounded the traditional readings of Garcilaso's poetry based on the idea of sincerity and the poet's frustrated love for the Portuguese lady-in-waiting Isabel Freire. In place of the much-abused concept of sincerity, Heiple argues that the intellectual currents of the Renaissance are much more important for the analysis of Garcilaso's poetry. He analyzes in Garcilaso's poetry the uses of Renaissance concepts of mythology, poetic style, theories of love, primitivism, and iconological traditions....

Artículos, ensayos breves, crónicas, reseñas y comentarios sobre temas diversos, escritos durante los años de la primera Guerra Mundial. Estos ensayos de Reyes se refieren principalmente a la literatura, el arte, la política y la historia contemporánea.

Isabel Quintana investiga con perspicacia la representacion de las crisis de la memoria a traves de la literatura. Su punto de partida es la definicion benjaminiana de la "experiencia plena," concebida como un bien perdido que busca hacerse oir. Quintana analiza el periodo que comprende desde las dictaduras militares hasta el neoliberalismo de nuestros dias, concentrandose en la obra de Ricardo Piglia y Juan Jose Saer, Cristina Peri Rossi y Silviano Santiago. Su estudio indaga practicas escriturarias que luchan contra lo informe de la memoria tratando de articular horizontes posibles de...