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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...

Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this comparative study of a selection of The Arabian Nights stories in a cross-cultural context, brings together a number of disciplines and subject areas to examine the workings of narrative. It predominantly focuses on the ways in which the Arabian Nights have transformed as its stories have travelled across historical eras, cultures, genres and media. Departing from the familiar approaches of influence and textual studies, this book locates its central inquiry in the theoretical questions surrounding the workings of ideology, genre and genre ideology ...

Donde inscribir un texto que articula una lectura de la narrativa de Juan Jose Saer en torno al concepto de melancolia? Tal vez esa misma imposibilidad de inscribir la lectura de Premat en un tipo de critica previsible sea lo que hace de LA DICHA DE SATURNO una lectura valiente y original. Si el texto, como argumenta Julio Premat, no puede reducirse a un programa estetico, a una intervencion en el campo cultural, a un dialogo controlado con la tradicion, a una discusion con la identidad o con el canon, el concepto de melancolia permite entonces integrar a la reflexion, a partir de una lectura ...

Una magnífica selección de reportajes de Alma Guillermoprieto. Premio Princesa de Asturias de Comunicación y Humanidades 2018 El conflicto civil en El Salvador, la crisis de Granada, la masacre del Mozote, el éxito internacional del grupo adolescente latinoamericano Menudo, la proliferación de sectas y religiones en Río de Janeiro o la lucha entre el gobierno peruano y Sendero Luminoso son solo algunos de los temas que trata Alma Guillermoprieto en sus legendarias crónicas. Publicadas entre 1980 y 2008 en The Washington Post, The New Yorker y The New York Review of Books son pequeñas...