Winter Rules

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."

En esta obra se recogen un total de 82 trabajos, con los que sus autores han deseado testimoniar el reconocimiento al profesor Lamíquiz y la labor por él realizada a lo largo de su ya dilatado magisterio.La mayoría de las colaboraciones aquí recogidas se ocupan de cuestiones lingüísticas relativas a la lengua española. Y si bien los temas particulares y los enfoques ofrecen un variado muestrario de los intereses y perspectivas de la ciencia del lenguaje en este final de siglo, se observa un neto predominio de lo que fue una constante en los planteamientos del homenajeado: la...

Susan Sontag: An Annotated Bibliographycatalogues the works of one of America's most prolific and important 20th century authors. Known for her philosophical writings on American culture, topics left untouched by Sontag's writings are few and far between. This volume is an exhaustive collection that includes her novels, essays, reviews, films and interviews. Each entry is accompanied by an annotated bibliography.

Un libro fondamentale che illustra la grande rilevanza internazionale della rivista Quaderni Ibero Americani fondata nel 1946. Il libro mette in evidenza gli straordinari contributi di un gran numero di intellettuali spagnoli che nel corso dei decenni hanno pubblicato sulla rivista - dai premi Nobel Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Camilo José Cela, Vicente Aleixandre, a poeti come Dámaso Alonso e intellettuali come Ramón Menéndez Pidal - e soprattutto approfondendo questi rapporti internazionali attraverso l’analisi e la riproduzione della...