Los paseos de Lodovico

Beyond the Family Romance explores parallels between Pascoli's work and such writers as Tarchetti, Boito, Poe, and Invernizio.

Bodas de sangre is arguably the best-known work by the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers. A passionate story of family feud and tragic elopement is played out in the setting of a poor country village, building up to a dramatic ending full of the intensely poetic symbolism characteristic of Lorca.

La extraordinaria abundancia cultural del periodo contemporáneo, de manera especial la riqueza en número y calidad de la creación literaria en nuestra lengua, hace inabordable su estudio completo y pormenorizado, y obliga a concentrarlo en algunos de sus representantes más señalados, que no sólo ofrezcan la máxima excelencia creadora por sí mismos, sino que sean especialmente significativos para el conocimiento del desarrollo de las diversas corrientes estéticas en los distintos géneros, poesía, narrativa y teatro a lo largo del siglo XX y lo que llevamos del XXI. Frente a lo que...

Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, Mar�a Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832?95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. An aristocratic Californiana, she championed the rights of Mexican Americans in novels, plays, and letters. Her 1885 novel called attention to the illegal appropriation of Mexican land by the United States government, and she critiqued the political mores of America after the Civil War in light of the Mexican-American war. Her keen assessment of corporate capitalism at the end of the nineteenth...