La construcción de la modernidad en la literatura española

En 1919 Vicente Blasco Ibáñez viajó a Estados Unidos, laureado por un éxito espectacular. ¿Fue acaso un inesperado golpe de fortuna lo que convirtió “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” en todo un fenómeno editorial que iba a permitir a Blasco sumar un interesante nuevo capítulo a su hasta entonces novelesca biografía? Sea cual sea la respuesta, el triunfo del escritor en Norteamérica repercutió decisivamente en su trayectoria artística y personal, y al mismo tiempo contribuyó a despertar el interés hacia la literatura española al otro lado del Atlántico. Desde el estudio ...

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....

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...

A sixteen-year-old girl writes in her diary about all the problems and events of her life, which include romance, depression, animal rights, stress, and health.