Melancolía en la poesía de José María Heredia

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...

Jacques Rancière, sin duda uno de los filósofos más relevantes de la actualidad, realiza aquí un recorrido exquisito por la historia de la literatura en el que analiza la naturaleza y las modalidades del cambio de paradigma que destruyó el sistema normativo de las Bellas Letras, al tiempo que se pregunta por las contradicciones y tensiones de la literatura hoy. Rancière propone una nueva interpretación de este cambio, donde la literatura ya no será “ni la idea imprecisa del repertorio de las obras de la escritura ni la idea de una esencia particular capaz de conferir a esas obras su ...

"As much as in other countries, there is a bildungsroman novel in Spanish America like the ones of Güiraldes, Vargas Llosa, and Pacheco. However, less studied is the same genre of novel written by women. Examines growing pains and search for freedom in a patriarchal society in the works of Elena Poniatowska, Rosario Castellanos, Claribel Alegría, Rosario Ferré, and Beatriz Guido. Interesting contribution to the growing body of studies on these writers"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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.