Mapping the Amazon (American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography, #8)
by Amanda M. Smith
An analysis of the political and ecological consequences of charting the Amazon River basin in narrative fiction, Mapping the Amazon examines how widely read novels from twentieth-century South America attempted to map the region for readers. Authors such as Jose Eustasio Rivera, Romulo Gallegos, Mario Vargas Llosa, Cesar Calvo, Marcio Souza, and Mario de Andrade travelled to the Amazonian regions of their respective countries and encountered firsthand a forest divided and despoiled by the spat...
La Rendicion de Breda en la Literatura y el Arte de Espana
by Simon A. Vosters
Birdman of Assisi: Art and the Apocalyptic in the Colonial Andes (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, #476)
by Jaime Lara
This volume explores the theme of childhood in the cuentista and poet Silvina Ocampo (1903-1993) and the poet Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972). It draws revealing comparisons between these key Argentine writers through theirshared obsession with childhood, arguing that an understanding of their attitudes to childhood is fundamental to an appreciation of their work. Close reading of various Ocampo texts, including some for children, allows an exploration of her vision of childhood through nostalgia...
The Comedia Thebaida is a neglected work, never extensively studied as attempts to assess its literary value have been distorted from the outset by the undue weight given to the two principal charges levelled against it: its inferiority to Celestina and its "immorality". This volume transcribes two early versions of the text, and contains notes on the localization of the action, along with a critical assessment. It is a sound basis from which to assess the literary value and historical importa...
'La Celestine' in the French translation of 1578 by Jacques de Lavardin
by Denis L Drysdall
Wie Wird Weltliteratur Gemacht? (Latin American Literatures In The World / Literaturas Latino, #6)
by Gesine Muller
In this text, Farrell challenges the leading radical literary critics of the 1930s, such as Michael Gold and Granville Hicks, reconsidering issues including the relative autonomy of literature from society and economics; the role of tradition in literary creation; the relation of literature to propaganda; and the nature of aesthetic value.
La narrativa de Concha Alos; Texto, pretexto y contexto is a study of the contemporary Spanish novelist, Concha Alos (born in Valencia in 1922), a transitional figure between the post-war "social novel" and post-neo-realistexperimentalism, who also expresses concerns of post-Franco feminist writings. Spanish critics have neglected Alos, reacting unfavorably to her "unwomanly" vocabulary and topics; she shares with other women writers the more general neglect by international Hispanism. Eight no...
The plays of Ruiz de Alarcon, a significant dramatist in the Spanish Golden Age, show in many of their plots a preoccupation with deception, which Whicker believes reflects Alarcon's fundamental concern about truth-telling in literature. His study of Alarcon's comedias stresses the seriousness and moral orthodoxy of the playwright and his concern with how simulation and dissimulation can be viewed both positively and negatively in theatre as well asin life. In support of his argument for the ser...
In the Name of Humanity (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
by Alain Finkielkraut
The notion that all the world's peoples constitute a "brotherhood of man" is not a given among all human beings-it is rather the product of history. So suggests acclaimed philosopher Alain Finkielkraut in In the Name of Humanity, an unsettling reflection on the twentieth century in its twilight hours in which he asks us to rethink our assumptions about universalism and humanism. While many people look to humanist ideals as a deterrent to nationalist chauvinism, Finkielkraut challenges the abstra...
Home as Creation (American University Studies Series 22: Latin American Studies, #18)
by Wilma Else Detjens
Mexico's Ruins (SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture)
by Raul Rodriguez-Hernandez
