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by Augusto Roa Bastos, Helene Carol Weldt-Basson
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The Prosecutor is the third novel of a trilogy written by the internationally famous Paraguayan author Augusto Roa Bastos. It was preceded by the novels Son of Man and I The Supreme. Together these three works contemplate what the author has termed “the monotheism of power.” The Prosecutor explores...
Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory
Language, Imitation, Art, and Verisimilitude in the Last Six Novels
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2019
This book makes the argument that Machado de Assis, hailed as one of Latin American literature’s greatest writers, was also a major theoretician of the modern novel form. Steeped in the works of Western literature and an imaginative reader of French Symbolist poetry, Machado creates, between 1880...
by John A. Ochoa
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
While the concept of defeat in the Mexican literary canon is frequently acknowledged, it has rarely been explored in the fullness of the psychological and religious contexts that define this aspect of "mexicanidad." Going beyond the simple narrative of self-defeat, The Uses of Failure in Mexican Literature...
In Search of Annie Drew
Jamaica Kincaid's Mother and Muse
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
There is perhaps no other person who has been so often and obsessively featured in any writer’s canon as Jamaica Kincaid’s mother, Annie Drew. In this provocative new book, Daryl Dance argues that everything Kincaid has written, regardless of its apparent theme, actually relates to Kincaid’s...
Countermodernism and Francophone Literary Culture
The Game of Slipknot
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Keith L. Walker traverses the traditionally imposed boundaries of geography and race as he examines the literary culture produced by French speakers and writers born outside France. Focusing on the commonalities revealed in their shared language and colonial history, Walker examines for the first...
Realismo e violência na literatura contemporânea
os contos de Famílias terrivelmente felizes, de Marçal Aquino
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Este livro, fruto da dissertação de mestrado do autor, busca compreender a ficção brasileira contemporânea considerando a história político-social da nação, no período que vai do fim da ditadura militar à sua redemocratização. Assim, Fábio Mendes propõe uma análise crítica dos contos...
by Polyanna Ervedosa
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 14, 2011
O livro O feminino e a fragmentação amorosa de Noite na Taverna pode ser considerado uma criação sui generis de investigação literária que contempla questões sobre o imaginário afectivo em Álvares de Azevedo, evocando incisivamente a figura da fêmea humana e confirmando as paixões animalescas...
by Andrés Morales
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 1, 2016
La justicia ha tardado, pero, al fin, se ha hecho sólida con la obra de Vicente Huidobro. Hoy en día, se presenta una revitalización de los estudios en torno a sus libros de poemas y manifiestos, esencialmente a partir de las investigaciones del profesor norteamericano René de Costa y del chileno...
Le Vieux qui lisait des romans d'amour de Luis Sepulveda
Questionnaire de lecture
Language: French
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Testez vos connaissances sur Le Vieux qui lisait des romans d’amour de Luis Sepulveda !Ce questionnaire de lecture sur Le Vieux qui lisait des romans d’amour de Luis Sepulveda vous aidera à :• vérifier votre compréhension du roman• faire des liens entre la réalité et la fiction• approfondir...
Obliteración
Dos conversaciones con George Bernard Shaw y de Rodolfo Usigli: Preparativos para un acto final.
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 27, 2014
El presente volumen rescata dos obras importantes y poco conocidas de Rodolfo Usigli: "Obliteración" y "Dos conversaciones con George Bernard Shaw", que dialogan y se complementan entre sí y cuya relación hace manifiesta en su postfacio Adolfo Castañón. "Obliteración" es, además de "Ensayo...
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Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Desde la decada de los sesenta hasta el presente, varios estudios han analizado las formaciones discursivas que conforman la razon latinoamericana. Los ensayos del presente volumen se limitan al espacio mas estrecho––aunque igualmente desafiante––de los Andes, una categoria que, aun hoy, estamos...
Las hojas breves
Acerca de Fernando Pessoa
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Este libro ofrece un acercamiento a algunas de las odas del poeta portugués Fernando Pessoa, en la figura de su heterónimo Ricardo Reis. En ellas se plasma de modo magistral su pensamiento poético así como su genio creador. Las odas de Pessoa merecen sin duda el calificativo de extraordinarias,...
by Autori Vari
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Indice dei Contenuti
Le origini
La fondazione
Gli Dei
La concezione del mondo per i Messicani
Gli dei supremi della creazione
Il pantheon Azteco
Metà della vitae metà della morte
Il mondo sotterraneo
Un'intera classe di sacerdoti dedita...
Real Armada en el Pacífico Sur
El Apostadero Naval del Callao 1746-1824
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 14, 2015
El presente libro es fruto de una investigación iniciada hace varias décadas, en las que se han consultado archivos y bibliotecas en España, Perú, Chile, México, Gran Bretaña, Estados Unidos y Australia. La labor no ha sido sencilla, pues no se contaba con una bibliografía abundante sobre el...