Predadores de silencio

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....

Discusses how Soriano established himself by eloquently combining genres. The prose will unmask Argentina's ethical and political corruption during the period of history called The Dirty War.

The book, unique in its kind, includes a total of 28 writers representative of 13 different Latin American countries, from those who are part of the canon such as Isabel Allende, Gioconda Belli, Liliana Heker, Nancy Morejon, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, Alfonsina Storni, Gabriela Mistral, and Julia de Burgos to emergent voices, such as Cecilia Bustamante, Rosina Valcarcel, and Gladys Ilarregui. This anthology will be the perfect text to give an overview of contemporary poetry and short story by leading Latin American women writers. The range of countries...

Algunas actividades y profesiones han enriquecido con expresiones originariamente suyas el vocabulario que ahora es común, como sucede con los soldados y los marineros, notables tributarios de la lengua que hoy hablamos todos. Oportuno, por ejemplo, empezó siendo palabra de marineros (es un derivado de puerto) y armario, un término de soldados (ahí guardaban las armas); y si la expresión no dar un palo al agua fue en sus inicios una reconvención a marineros perezosos, echar a alguien con cajas destempladas se refería a una manera infamante de expulsar a alguien del ejército. Este...