Miradas Sobre Pasado Y Presente en El Cine Espanol (1990-2005)

La aparición en 1900 del libro de Francisco Villaespesa (1877-1936) La copa del rey de Thule significó el triunfo definitivo del Modernismo en nuestro país, de cuya renovación poética fue más temprano portavoz y principal artífice. No obstante, a pesar de la importancia capital que logró adquirir en el contexto literario del novecientos, la obra del poeta, dramaturgo y novelista almeriense ha llegado hasta nuestros días difuminada por el olvido de los lectores y la escasa atención editorial y académica que ha venido padeciendo durante décadas. Las páginas de este volumen de...

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...

The Ties That Bind comprises the first collection of critical essays that explore the family system in Spanish and Latin American culture. This thought-provoking volume addresses the intersection of language, narrative structure, social reality, and family dynamics through examples from a diverse range of literary works, including Cervantes' Don Quijote, Reinaldo Arenas' Celestino antes del alba, and the Chicano film My Family/Mi Familia. Issues of feminism, gender and sexuality, abuse, trauma, and communication take the forefront in this ground-breaking book, which takes psychological...

C sar Vallejo is one of the finest poets of Latin America, and his poetry has managed to maintain a broad readership base right up until the modern day. Since Vallejo's posthumous poems were first published in 1939 in an edition supervised by his widow, Georgette de Vallejo, there remain to this day a number of unanswered questions about them. In what order did Vallejo write the poems? Would he have published the poems as they are? This book, by a careful analysis of the evidence available, proposes a new chronology for the posthumous poems, suggesting that the Peruvian poet's work went...