La indomable libertad de las palabras

Retórica y retrato poético se presenta como una monografía sobre la influencia de la teoría y práctica retórica en la literatura dentro de un campo bien definido: el retrato físico y moral de los personajes poéticos. Para ello se analizan textos literarios que van desde el Idilio 17 de Teócrito hasta la lírica española del siglo XX y que repasan la inuentio y dispositio del discurso de elogio, las pasiones y la tipología de caracteres, los loci a persona y el esquema descendente de la descripción de personas.

Silvina Ocampo possessed her own special enchantment as a poet, and only now is her extraordinary poetic achievement becoming more widely recognized beyond Latin America. Remarkably, this is the first collection of Ocampo’s poetry to appear in English. From her early sonnets on the native Argentine landscape, to her meditations on love’s travails, to her explorations of the kinship between plant and animal realms, to her clairvoyant inquiries into history and myth and memory, readers will find the full range of Ocampo’s “metaphysical lyricism” (The Independent) represented in this...

Excerpt from Parnaso de Mexico: Antologia General, Luis Rosado Vega Tal duo, y corno ligera la voz y discretamente, fué a perderse dulcemente en el bosque y la pradera. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish ...

Quan Barry embarks on discursive inquiry in Controvertibles. She lifts familiar cultural moments out of their usual settings and repositions them in front of new, disparate backdrops, endeavoring to understand the essence of modern experience. Doug Flutie's famous Hail Mary pass and Rutger Hauer's role in Blade Runner are contextualized within the Tibetan Book of the Dead, while an ultrasound reading acts as a meditation on the limits of critical theory. Samantha Smith, the Shroud of Turin, Igor Stravinsky, Bob Beamon's world-record-setting long jump, the largo from Handel's Xerxes, the...