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Colombia produced one of the richest literatures of Latin America, as much for its abundance as for its variety and innovation during the 19th century. This value has been unknown due to subsequent writers and critics that rejected the importance of this literature and influenced readers to ignore this literary production as noteworthy. In the same way, this lack of recognition has been perpetuated by the absence of information of the literary works produced during the 19th century and has hampered the investigation and research of new generations of readers. Therefore, this Bibliography of...

Descubrir los orígenes de este pueblo ancestral, sin tradición escrita y en migración permanente, es nuestra propuesta. Su cultura se ha mantenido viva desde sus orígenes, quizás por su alto contenido místico, mágico, preservado por los druidas -sus maestros y guías espirituales- quienes a pesar de sus grandes conocimientos, prefirieron dejar en la forma de hermosos versos, la crónica de la existencia de su pueblo. Un recurso mnemotécnico que fijó los detalles de sus historias de manera tan potente que aún hoy, su mixtura entre ficción y realidad, sus mitos y leyendas -que se...

This volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial...

Just as philosophy begins with doubt, life worthy of being called human begins with irony. This quote by Kierkegaard leads an essay that traces a journey through irony and its uses from Socrates to Foster Wallace, up to its use in our societies marked by "mass public conversation."