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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...

El objetivo de esta obra es ilustrar la historicidad conceptual de la escritura en terminos sexuales, y contextualizar y matizar la universalidad de la significacion paradojica de unas teorias literarias feministas y su aplicacion al caso especifico de Espana.

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.

Canon y compromiso pudieran parecer dos categorías antitéticas, cuando menos a la luz de las premisas que sostienen el polémico concepto de canon divulgado por Harold Bloom. Este libro, en cambio, parte de la insoslayable imbricación de estética e ideología, o de la idea de la literatura como discurso ideológico, y pone en juego una noción de compromiso que conduce a superar las tradicionales dicotomías manejadas por el inconsciente artístico dominante, pureza/impureza, privado/público, intimidad/historia, y la querella resultante entre el canon poético y el compromiso. Desde...