El mito de Psique y Cupido en la poesía española del siglo XVI

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 mito de Robinson, a partir de la novela de Defoe, es uno de los relatos más perdurables en la historia de nuestra conciencia literaria, filosófica y también política. Quizás por esta razón estas figuras se muestran tan próximas a nuestro tiempo, ligadas a la atracción que nos sugiere el sentido de evasión, de anarquía que representa el viaje y la isla desierta como laboratorio para experimentar con nuevas propuestas estéticas de variado signo. Robinson y la isla infinita reúne por primera vez el punto de vista de los autores latinoamericanos, frente a la interpretación de la...

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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...