La reinvención de la memoria

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...

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.

Absalom, Absalom! has long been seen as one of William Faulkner's supreme creations, as well as one of the leading American novels of the twentieth century. In this collection Fred Hobson has brought together eight of the most stimulating essays on Absalom, essays written over a thirty-year span which approach the novel both formally and historically. Here are critical responses by Cleanth Brooks, John Irwin, Thadious Davis, and Eric Sundquist, as well as four essays published in the last decade. The casebook concludes with Faulkner's own remarks on the novel, delivered in a discussion with...

Análisis textual de las identidades sexuales ambiguas de personajes travestis y andróginos en las novelas y cuentos de Severo Sarduy, Diamela Eltit, Osvaldo Lamborghini e Hilda Hilst, desde una perspectiva semántica y crítico-cultural.