Guerra absoluta

Following studies by Goodman, Waley, and Darst, this new study of Garcilaso's work rejects as unfounded the traditional readings of Garcilaso's poetry based on the idea of sincerity and the poet's frustrated love for the Portuguese lady-in-waiting Isabel Freire. In place of the much-abused concept of sincerity, Heiple argues that the intellectual currents of the Renaissance are much more important for the analysis of Garcilaso's poetry. He analyzes in Garcilaso's poetry the uses of Renaissance concepts of mythology, poetic style, theories of love, primitivism, and iconological traditions....

Emile Erckmann (1822-1899) y Alexandre Chatrian (1826-1980) forman una de las parejas literarias más populares y prolíficas de la historia de la literatura. Originarios de la Alsacia francesa -territorio por el que han litigado Francia y Alemania a lo largo de los siglos-, Erckmann y Chatrian escribieron una buena cantidad de novelas y obras de teatro, así como decenas de cuentos en colaboración. Entre sus obras más destacadas cabe citar: El amigo Fritz, Cuentos del Rin, y El loco Yégof, este último sobre las campañas napoleónicas. El presente volumen se compone de una novela breve,...

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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...