Pervivencia del mundo clásico en la literatura

Este libro examina las obras narrativas de los escritores Marvel Moreno y Germán espinosa: sus temas, formas y recursos, con el fin de determinar su inscripción en el canon de la literatura colombiana y latinoamericana. Estos dos autores, si bien han sido abordados por la crítica, están en mora de ser analizados a fondo, con una mayor variedad de enfoque teóricos y temáticos. Su estudio es pertinente, pues se trata de obras con una calidadestética indiscutible, críticas de la sociedad, pero que no han sido plenamente reconocidas, por lo que permanecén aún al márgen. De esta forma,...

Emily Dickinson's Poems: As She Preserved Them is a major new edition of Dickinson's verse intended for the scholar, student, and general reader. It foregrounds the copies of poems that Dickinson retained for herself during her lifetime, in the form she retained them. This is the only edition of Dickinson's complete poems to distinguish in easy visual form the approximately 1,100 poems she took pains to copy carefully onto folded sheets in fair hand--arguably to preserve them for posterity--from the poems she kept in rougher form or apparently did not retain. It is the first edition to...

Annotation Between 1605 and 1621, Quevedo wrote a sequence of five "Dreams" or "Visions" "(Suenos y discursos), in each of which he hilariously envisions Spanish society as populated by people rightfully condemned to Hell. These astonishingly witty and irreverent satires of contemporary Spanish culture, morality, prejudice and religious fanaticism, were composed in a style as allusive, elliptical and equivocal as to successfully entertain both those who barely understood their full range and import, and others who celebrated the poet's rebellious insinuations. Censorship prohibited the...

En este extenso ensayo, William Ospina, analiza de manera magistral al poeta Juan de Castellanos y su obra sobre la conquista de Ámerica.