Border Crossings

This volume of essays in Spanish and English examines some of the key issues which surround the emergence of the Avant-Garde novel in Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century. The experimental novel of the 1920s is seen as the culmination of a process of change in approaches to the novel which began early in the century and was further promoted by Spain's key Avant-Gardist Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Several essays focus on the form of the novel and seek to shed new light on the role of José Ortega y Gasset as mentor to the new writers of the 1920s and on our understanding of his use...

Through a study of literature, the social and cultural issues that help form the identity of a people can be revealed and examined. The ten essays in Temas del comercio y la economía en la narrativa hispana investigate the relation between the Hispanic narrative and the economic and commercial concerns of Spanish-speaking peoples around the world from a variety of historical periods. Balancing a study of writers' perspectives on current economic conditions with a look at literary versions of economic events, this anthology provides a window into Hispanic culture for both the student of...

La obra del grupo de escritores nucleado alrededor de la revista Orígenes (1944-1956) representa el mayor momento de la literatura cubana del siglo XX y equivale en importancia a la obra de los mexicanos de la revista Contemporáneos y a los argentinos de Sur. José Lezama Lima, Virgilio Piñera, Eliseo Diego, Fina García Marruz, Cintio Vitier son algunos de sus nombres. Al análisis de lo escrito por ellos, y al pronóstico de lo que serían en el futuro, dedicó María Zambrano su esclarecedor ensayo La Cuba secreta. Forjadores de obras espléndidas y disímiles, se encargaron también de ...

Los lugares imaginarios, las tierras fantásticas y su reflejo en la literatura medieval y áurea son el objeto de análisis de este libro. Se estudian temas como la maravilla en Calderón y Cervantes o la imaginación en Lope.