Un Baruch para Spinoza

La dilatada y fructífera experiencia como uno de los investigadores más destacados de las letras norteamericanas en nuestro país permite a Félix Martín examinar los supuestos que invitan hoy a recuperar el protagonismo de la historia literaria de los Estados Unidos en las aulas. Entraña este proyecto una revisión de los aspectos fundamentales para entender esta historia: la periodización, los géneros, el canon y la función de la teoría crítica. Con este objetivo se destacan las dos orientaciones, inseparables y complementarias, que guían su desarrollo: una crítica y otra...

Originally published in 1984. William Faulkner is the most studied American author of our time. This volume presents a collection of some of the best critical essays on William Faulkner’s ninth novel Absalom, Absalom!. Numerous approaches are represented; among them are theme studies, close readings, psychological studies, source studies, structural studies, and analyses of style and narrative technique.

"Although there are other works on the linguistic interactions between the English and Spanish languages inside the Cuban community in the Greater Miami area, this book is an all encompassing study that lets us see where the language stands today, using recent trends that also let us project what will occur to the Spanish language in the near future.. At the same time, the book offers a clear picture, using current statistics, of what the Cuban community in Miami has accomplished in just four decades."