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This casebook gathers a collection of ambitious essays about both parts of the novel (1605 and 1615) and also provides a general introduction and a bibliography. The essays range from Ramon Menendez Pidal's seminal study of how Cervantes dealt with chivalric literature to Erich Auerbachs polemical study of Don Quixote as essentially a comic book by studying its mixture of styles, and include Leo Spitzer's masterful probe into the essential amb...

La ruta de Severo Sarduy sentó coordenadas de lectura cuya actualidad, en lo que atañe a la obra de Sarduy pero también en tanto operatoria crítica, viene a confirmarse con esta edición definitiva. González Echevarría aborda la singularidad de Sarduy en una dialéctica que pone en relación el extrañamiento con la tradición literaria de la que su autor es, por partida doble, heredero y disidente, y traza un itinerario marcado tanto por esa volun...

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From the first amateur clubs of the 1860s to today's dominant professional players and national teams under Castro, "The Pride of Havana" is the definitive history of baseball in Cuba. 73 halftones. 2 maps.

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?The breadth and depth of Carpentier's historical and cultural erudition, fundamental to the elaboration of his narrative style and thematic context, is well outlined in this Guide.... ...the inclusion of dissertation topics, in addition to the preponderance of published articles, if not of reviews, on Carpentier's work, renders this bibliography indispensable for future scholarshi. ... The Guide thus contributes substantially to the documenta...

This Very Short Introduction chronicles the trends and traditions of modern Latin American literature, arguing that Latin American literature developed as a continent-wide phenomenon, not just an assemblage of national literatures, in moments of political crisis. With the Spanish American War came Modernismo, the end of World War I and the Mexican Revolution produced the avant-garde, and the Cuban Revolution sparked a movement in the novel tha...

Drawing from art, literature, film, and even the national sport of baseball, the author reveals the Cuban fiesta as a dynamic force of both destruction and renewal in the life of a people. He exposes the distinctive elements of the fiesta cubana that give depth and coherence to more than two centuries of Cuban cultural life.

The consolidation of law and the development of legal writing during Spain's Golden Age not only helped that country become a modern state but also affected its great literature. This book explores the works of Cervantes, showing how his representations of love were inspired by examples of human deviance and desire culled from legal discourse.

Discusses the theory of the origin and evolution of the Latin American narrative and the emergence of the modern novel.

This collection of essays is valuable not only for the excellence of the individual pieces but also as the critical itinerary of an eminent and influential Hispanist. Because Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria has been at the center of critical debates in Hispanism over the last two decades, his evolution as a critic also illuminates changes in the discipline from the sixties to the present. This is a major collection of essays by one of the leading ...

The novel Don Quixote, written in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, is widely considered to be one of the greatest fictional works in the entire canon of Western literature. At once farcical and deeply philosophical, Cervantes' novel and its characters have become integrated into the cultures of the Western Hemisphere, influencing language and modern thought while inspiring art and artists such a...

Alejo Carpentier was one of the greatest Latin American novelists of the twentieth century, as well as a musicologist, journalist, cultural promoter, and diplomat. His fictional world issues from an encyclopedic knowledge of the history, art, music, and literature of Latin America and Europe. Carpentier's novels and stories are the enabling discourse of today's Latin American narrative, and his interpretation of Latin American history has been...

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Ni su poesa ni su ensaystica han gozado de la difusin que Fina Garca Marruz (Cuba, 1923) nunca ha perseguido pero que sin duda merecen. Quisiramos que a partir de ahora el privilegiado lector de estas pginas apreciara el inusitado don que portan y que acaso como un oculto e ntimo tesoro lo acompaarn siempre, pginas en donde, al decir de Eliseo Diego, se encuentran "algunos de los poemas de ms apasionada belleza que se hallan compuesto en lengu...

This collection of essays is valuable not only for the excellence of the individual pieces but also as the critical itinerary of an eminent and influential Hispanist. Because Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria has been at the center of critical debates in Hispanism over the last two decades, his evolution as a critic also illuminates changes in the discipline from the sixties to the present. This is a major collection of essays by one of the leading ...

A study of authority as theme and authority as authorial strategy in modern Latin American literature. It argues that an ideology is implicit in modern Latin American literature through which both the literature itself and criticism of it define what Latin American literature is and how it ought to be read.