América Latina palabra y cultura

La traducción de Fernández de Villegas del ‘Infierno’ en coplas de arte mayor está rodeada de una extensa glosa del mismo traductor cuya fuente principal es el ‘Comento sopra la Comedia de Landino’ (1481). En este libro se abordan temáticas hasta hace poco desatendidas, como el contexto del que emerge –la corte regia–, su fecha de composición, sus problemas de transmisión textual y los mecanismos de traducción empleados –los cuales se analizan desde el marco de los ‘Translation Studies’–. Asimismo, cómo el contexto político, cultural y literario del autor influye...

First published in 1900 Uruguay, Ariel is Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations. Though Rodó protested the interpretation, his allegorical conflict between Ariel, the lover of beauty and truth, and Caliban, the evil spirit of materialism and positivism, has come to be regarded as a metaphor for the conflicts and cultural differences between Latin America and the United States. Generations of statesmen, intellectuals, and literary figures have been formed by this book, either in championing...

Un trabajo que estudia la compleja relación entre exilio y literatura en la Argentina durante un período de profundos cambios sociales y políticos. A work that studies the complex relationship between exile and literature in Argentina during a period of profound social and political change.

Benito Perez Galdos sought a new narrative structure which would revitalize the literary models prevalent in 19th-century Spain. He found such a structure in the creation of a dialogue between normally incompatible texts — between old and new, national and foreign, high culture and low. From the confrontation of these incongruous texts a narrative is born which, through the destruction of textual hierarchies, creates an ambiguous and often duplicitous texture of storytelling. Five paradigms, based upon five Novelas Contemporaneas, are used to exemplify the dialogical structure of the new...