Bécquer en Martí y en otros poetas hispanoamericanos finiseculares

Critical edition of José Martínez Ruiz's experimental novel. Written in the form of a diary, this novel tells the story of a young novelist, incorporating the presence of the reader and the idea of the fictional into its discourse.

El Caballero de Olmedo is a history play, a retelling of a folk tale, a celebrated piece of Golden Age drama, and also an intense mediation upon the power of desire, the deceits of eroticism and literary convention, the injustice of a world obsessed with appearance, and the tragic potential inherent in the courting of beautiful women. The introduction sets this play within the context of Baroque eroticism and sexual mores as well as dramatic practice. The text is presented with glosses to words unfamiliar to undergraduate students; the notes comprise summaries of acts and scenes from a...

Las visitas a México que la autora llevó a cabo resultaron determinantes para el desarrollo de su carrera literaria. El estudio se centra en el análisis del papel del discurso revolucionario en el proceso de desilusión característico de los relatos mexicanos de Porter, en los que descubrió un modelo de monologismo autoritario y una expresión de la distancia extrema que puede separar las palabras de la realidad.

How Far is America From Here? approaches American nations and cultures from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It is very much at the heart of this comparative agenda that “America” be considered as a hemispheric and global matter. It discusses American identities relationally, whether the relations under discussion operate within the borders of the United States, throughout the Americas, and/or worldwide. The various articles here gathered interrogate the very notion of “America”: which, whose America, when, why now, how? What is meant by “far”—distance,...