Tres poetas del exceso

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...

To complement the historical survey, a brief description of the social environment in Los Angeles is included. In addition, a short presentation on how the Spanish printing press and newspapers evolved in America is presented to show how these two processes contributed to the literary and cultural background of this ethnic group.

Mariselle Melendez studies the dynamics of colonial subject identity construction as elaborated in the exemplary eighteenth-century travel book, El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (A Guide for Inexperienced Travelers ). She analyzes elements of race and gender to argue that they become essential parts of the colonialist project which the author articulates throughout his travel diary by means of the voices of his two narrators: the Spanish Visitador Alonso Carrio de la Vandera and his companion and amanuensis, Calixto Bustamente Carlos Inca. Melendez shows how racial and cultural hybridity...

Manuel Bandeira (Recife, Pernambuco, 1886 — Río de Janeiro, 1968) es uno de los más importantes líricos de Brasil, muy probablemente el primero si se acepta la fundada opinión de José Guilherme Merquior. Traductor, ensayista, crítico literario y poeta, Bandeira perteneció a la llamada «Generación de 1922» o «Primera Generación del Modernismo Brasileiro». Conocedor de la poesía de su país, del simbolismo francés, del romanticismo alemán y de la tradición portuguesa, cultivó un estilo personal que aderezó con una vasta cultura. Bandeira es autor de una amplia obra. Entre...