Gabriela Mistral

This edited volume explores the ways in which Miguel de Cervantes adopted humanist positions, whether he submitted these to critical examination or made them the target of his satires. It tries to determine how familiar Cervantes was with the contemporary developments of humanism in different European countries, and if references to particular humanist thinkers can be identified in his work. The contributions gathered in this volume, all from acknowledged Cervantes experts, tackle among others the following questions: How does Cervantes analyse the humanist connexion between science and...

Hasta la fecha invisibilizada, la poética comparada de mujeres es una nueva disciplina transversal en los Estudios Literarios cuyos textos, teoría, metodología y práctica transformarán por complete la lectura y la crítica de poesía en lo sucesivo. Rendered invisible until now, Comparative Women's Poetics is a new transversal discipline in Literary Studies whose texts, theories, methodology and practice will completely transform the reading and criticism of poetry in the future.

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...

De Hitler a Voldemort: retrato del villano mezcla estudios literarios y estudios de la masculinidad para estudiar el protagonismo del villano en las ficciones contra el abuso del poder patriarcal. Al tiempo que estudia algunos de los villanos británicos más populares (desde el Gran Hermano a Voldemort, pasando por Sauron), Sara Martín demuestra que los villanos de ficción actuales surgen no solo de predecesores literarios, sino también de la figura de la vida real del archivillano Adolf Hitler.