Planteamientos estéticos y políticos en la obra de Zora Neale Hurston

En este completo manual se ofrece de modo exhaustivo, y a la vez ágil y manejable, un graduado recorrido por la historia de nuestras letras. La literatura en lengua española es, sin duda, una de las aportaciones más valiosas a la cultura universal. A lo largo de los siglos, a uno y otro lado del Atlántico se ha ido forjando un repertorio amplio, variado y extremadamente rico, innovador y revolucionario en sus momentos estelares, razonable adaptación de tendencias foráneas en otras etapas. Esta Historia esencial resume lo más interesante de esa ingente producción. Desarrolla con la...

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...

This volume of collected essays explores the premise that Plutarch's work, notwithstanding its amazing thematic multifariousness, constantly pivots on certain ideological pillars which secure its unity and coherence. So, unlike other similar books which, more or less, concentrate on either the Lives or the Moralia or on some particular aspect(s) of Plutarch's oeuvre, the articles of the present volume observe Plutarch at work in both Lives and Moralia, thus bringing forward and illustrating the inner unity of his varied literary production. The subject-matter of the volume is uncommonly...

Edited, translated, and introduced by Luis A. Ramos-Garcia Based on the princeps edition (1801) and preceded by a lengthy introductory study, this critical annonated edition documents key aspects of Spain's controversial Age of Reason, particularly the uncertain shifts in ideas, and the peculiarities of Montengon's idiosyncratic philosophical system.