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This collection of seventeen essays on Spanish Golden Age and Spanish American Colonial Poetry unites contributions from a cross-section of specialists in the field of Hispanic poetry. It places aesthetic questions in their broader European context, and looks beyond the confines of Europe to interrogate the key terms of its title, balancing panoramic approaches to questions of genre with the insights afforded by detailed readings of individual texts.

Juan's father, a fisherman, is caught in a storm and returns very ill. Guided by his friend, the Moon, Juan takes a magical trip to the bottom of the sea and recaptures his father's health from an ornery octopus.

La escuela “formalista” rusa de los años veinte se conocía muy irregularmente hasta que en 1965 Todorov reunió y tradujo al francés, por sugerencia de Genette, estos 14 ensayos trascendentales, precedidos de sendas introducciones de Jakobson y del propio Todorov que hacen el balance y definen las perspectivas de la obra de estos grandes estéticos soviéticos del lenguaje literario.

This book offers the first panoramic study on the development and characteristics of the literary-journalistic genre of spectator periodicals in Hispanic America and Brazil. After contextualizing these publications within the emancipation processes of 19th-century American Enlightenment, it explores the new coexistence modes and esthetics they disseminated.