Contiendas en torno al canon

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...

Dr. Gonzalez gathers in this work an ensemble of the poetry written by women poets in Santo Domingo during the eighties and nineties with a similar Lezamian perspective: relief, focus on sharp features, and yet there is also breadth and unity of comprehension, despite the complexity, or rather, on account of it.

Una obra que abre las puertas a un universo literario infinito.La célebre Historia de la literatura universal es la más completa y lúcida síntesis que existe en castellano sobre las literaturas de todas las épocas, desde sus más remotos orígenes hasta las puertas del siglo XXI. Con una prosa ágil y un sugestivo espíritu crítico, Martín de Riquer y José María Valverde ofrecen un análisis profundo de los principales escritores y obras, al tiempo que conforman una visión global de los distintos movimientos y acontecimientos literarios.En este primer volumen, tras una inmersión en ...

In Gronjor, a world that's half light and half shadow, a group of hunters traverse the untamed dark side. They're headed towards the labyrinth, the most savage zone on the planet, populated by wild animals that work to throw center-seekers off their path. Gronjor's delicate equilibrium depends on this cruel process of selection controlled by the sorcerer Milosh. There's little cause for hope, except for a prophecy that speaks of an imminent change...