Antigüedad y actualidad de Luis Vélez de Guevara

En noviembre de 1887 el editor norteamericano S.S. MacClure visitó a Stevenson en Saranac Lake, su refugio en las montañas de Adirondack (en el estado de Nueva York), y el escritor le contó su deseo de viajar a los mares del sur, aventura con la que había soñado desde que tenía veinticinco años. MacClure le sugirió que el crucero podía costeárselo dando conferencias en EEUU a su regreso y escribiendo una narración de su viaje en forma epistolar que saldría en publicaciones periódicas --dicha narración apareció finalmente en 1896 con el título de En los mares del Sur (Avatares...

This book collects for the first time a compendium of poems written in English by brigadists, sanitary personnel and journalists that participated or were involved in the Spanish Civil War, as well as by intellectuals, writers and journalists that supported the republican cause from the outside. The anthology starts from a previous historical framework in which this poetic legacy has been contextualized, to know where, when, how and why these poems were written, and who wrote them or who were their protagonists. All these analyses have served to understand the causes of why this poetic legacy ...

This volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial...

La autora estudia el pensamiento social y político de Marietta de Veintemilla (Ecuador 1858-1907), Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (Perú, 1845-1909) y Luisa Capetillo (Puerto Rico 1879-1922), revelando sus aportes a la cuestión nacional de sus respectivos países.