Shakespeare y sus traductores

El Cancionero Popular Infantil es conocido y utilizado por niños y mayores, pero cada vez con menor frecuencia y de manera más débil. Los niños han perdido los espacios que hasta hace años les pertenecían y que utilizaban para su ocio y diversión. De manera paralela a la pérdida de estos lugares de juego y encuentro, también han perdido el tiempo destinado a esas actividades, ocupado ahora en tareas extraescolares. Pero entre tantos factores negativos para la pervivencia del Cancionero Popular Infantil, aparecen ciertos datos que aportan un halo de esperanza: libros,...

Who writes "I"? How is the scene of writing represented in autobiographical texts? To whom are autobiographies addressed? What kinds of readers are inscribed in autobiographical narratives? In Apology to Apostrophe, James D. Fernandez offers a lucid and powerful meditation on the nature of autobiographical writing through his investigation of the historical conditions and literary stagings of autobiographical writing in Spain. As Fernandez demonstrates, recent developments in critical theory provide new and fruitful approaches to autobiographical works that have long been neglected,...

Poetry in English and Spanish, openly political, blatantly blunt, and religiously irreverent, reaches from the innermost corners of the soul to the streets of New York, to the battlegrounds of Central America, and finally to union with the godhead

This book contains essays in Spanish and English. The essays in this collection are distinctive in their critical approach to a wide variety of topics. Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela and Chile are represented by some of their major literary figures in poetry (Valencia, Mistral, Neruda, Torres Bodet) or prose fiction (Asturias, Gallegos, Garcia Marquez). The four concluding studies on Von Humboldt, La Condamine, Gerstacker and Zweig are valuable in that they present historical, political, sociological, geographical and/or scientific concerns in a cross-cultural context."