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Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016

In recent decades, the international recognition of Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez has placed Colombian writing on the global literary map. A History of Colombian Literature explores the genealogy of Colombian poetry and prose from the colonial period to the present day. Beginning with a...
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The Mythmaker

A Study of Motif and Symbol in the Short Stories of Jorge Luis Borges

by Carter Wheelock
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013

Readers who are intrigued, though often mystified, by the intellectual fantasies of Jorge Luis Borges will find this book a revelation, a skeleton key to one of the most fundamental and baffling aspects of Borges’s fictions: the pattern of symbolism with an inner meaning. Carter Wheelock’s study...
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Resisting Paradise

Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture

by Angelique V. Nixon
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015

Winner of the Caribbean Studies Association's 2016 Barbara T. Christian Award Tourists flock to the Caribbean for its beaches and spread more than just blankets and dollars. Indeed tourism has overly affected the culture there. Resisting Paradise explores the import of both tourism and diaspora...
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Poeta con paisaje

Ensayos sobre la vida de Octavio Paz

by Guillermo Sheridan
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 28, 2014

Octavio Paz encarna como nadie el siglo XX mexicano. Bajo la vigilancia de esta certidumbre, Guillermo Sheridan ha escrito esta biografía intelectual del poeta. Sin menoscabo de la investigación documental, Sheridan ha querido que sean los poemas de Paz la fuente primordial para iluminar sus recuerdos...
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México en 1932

La polémica nacionalista

by Guillermo Sheridan
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 25, 2013

Guillermo Sheridan analiza la polémica literaria que se dio en México en 1932, entre el grupo de Contemporáneos y su mentor Alfonso Reyes, entre otros escritores empeñados en la formación de una literatura que dialogara con la producida por el Occidente moderno, y el grupo encabezado por Ermilo...
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by Machado de Assis
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 12, 2015

Perfeita e bonita formatação, navegação funcional entre as partes da obra, ilustrado. Formato Epub3. *** Lançamento da 1. Edição Junho/2015 - Texto revisado e conforme novo acordo ortográfico de 2009.  - Incluído biografia,...
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by Machado de Assis
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 12, 2015

Perfeita e bonita formatação, navegação funcional (índice ativo) entre as partes da obra, ilustrado. Formato Epub3.  *** Lançamento da 1. Edição Junho/2015 - Texto revisado e conforme novo acordo ortográfico de 2009. ...
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by Roberto Arlt
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 19, 2013

Oscilando entre la nota costumbrista, la reflexión sobre los usos de la lengua popular y la fijación de arquetipos urbanos, Las aguafuertes son tanto un retrato coral de la sociedad argentina de la época como un vasto laboratorio, donde Arlt ensayó los temas y las voces que servirían de sustento a gran parte de la narrativa argentina contemporánea.
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by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2000

Esau and Jacob is the last of Machado de Assis's four great novels. At one level it is the story of twin brothers in love with the same woman and her inability to choose between them. At another level, it is the story of Brazil itself, caught between the traditional and the modern, and between the...
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Julio Cortázar

Les Grands Articles d'Universalis

by Encyclopaedia Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: June 30, 2017

Partez à la découverte de Julio Cortázar avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! Le conteur et romancier argentin Julio Cortázar est un franc-tireur de la littérature. Cas complexe et personnel d'insurrection permanente contre les lieux communs, la passivité d'esprit, il rend vie au verbe...
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Littérature brésilienne (Les Grands Articles)

(Les Grands Articles d'Universalis)

by Encyclopaedia Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: July 12, 2016

La littérature brésilienne naît de sa matrice portugaise, et une des questions est de savoir si elle en constitue un rameau jusqu'à l'indépendance du pays en 1822, ou si elle prend son autonomie avec la « découverte » de celui-ci en 1500.
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García Márquez

The Man and His Work

by Gene H. Bell-Villada
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of the most influential writers of our time, with a unique literary creativity rooted in the history of his native Colombia. This revised and expanded edition of a classic work is the first book of criticism to consider in detail the totality of Garcia Marquez's magnificent...
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Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez

Estudio preliminar y edición de Antonio Lorente Medina

by Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 27, 2017

Ningún otro libro de don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora ha tenido la fortuna y repercusión que la relación conocida indebidamente como Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez. La amenidad de su lectura, los indudables artificios literarios que presenta y la práctica inexistencia de novelas en la América...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016

A History of Mexican Literature chronicles a story more than five hundred years in the making, looking at the development of literary culture in Mexico from its indigenous beginnings to the twenty-first century. Featuring a comprehensive introduction that charts the development of a complex canon,...
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