Introducción a la literatura hispanoamericana

Siete ensayos reflexionan en torno a las características históricas, culturales y políticas del largo ciclo post dictatorial en Chile. Son miradas diversas en sus temáticas y enfoques, pero unidas en un juicio eminentemente crítico respecto de una promesa democrática y social inconclusa.

Este libro es un compendio de ensayos, donde el autor comparte las perplejidades y asombros que le despiertan obras y problemas de la educación y la literatura. Ajenas a pretensiones de erudición, son tentativas que rozan lo heterodoxo, que cruzan fronteras en un recorrido, marcado más por el deseo que por el afán de ofrecer respuestas categóricas. En una época dominada por el consumo, el desasosiego y la incertidumbre, este libro propone, sin afán académico, detenerse en asuntos esenciales, guiado por el reconocimiento de las voces de autores que exaltan el lenguaje, la tolerancia,...

Francisco Calcagno was one of the most prolific authors of Cuban XIX century, and yet one of the less studied by critics and scholars. His novels focused on blacks are nonetheless essential to understand how the creole elites view blacks and the fears they felt about the influence of blacks in a Cuba white and Spaniard. What could it then better than to read Aponte, along with Prof. Moran's insightful introductory study. There we find an excellent balance between history and fiction, archive material and criticism. In Prof. Francisco Moran's skillful hands Calcagno's novel becomes a literary...

Among the adventures of Odysseus, his encounter with the mysterious goddess Circe, who transforms the hero's companions into swine, has long been a favorite of readers. The combination of magic, metamorphosis, intrigue, seduction, and danger in this episode of the Odyssey make it particularly attractive and thought-provoking, so that many later authors mention or recreate it: Apollonius of Rhodes, Plutarch, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, Lope, Calderon, etc. This book analyzes the tradition of the Homeric myth in western literature, from ancient Greece to the present day, with particular attention to...