Conflicts and Conciliations

Bartolome Hidalgo (Montevideo, 1788 - Moron, Buenos Aires Province, 1822) is the first poet to have utilized the Spanish language to capture the qualities of gaucho speech His writings, comprising a series of lyrical, narrative and dialogic texts about current political concerns of the second and third decades of the 19th century in both margins of the Rio de la Plata, have been recognized by the most respected literary critics of the region -Sarmiento, Mitre, Leguizamon, Rojas, Falcao Espalter, Borges- as the initiation of this most original genre, and Hidalgo, consequently, the first...

Through a study of literature, the social and cultural issues that help form the identity of a people can be revealed and examined. The ten essays in Temas del comercio y la economía en la narrativa hispana investigate the relation between the Hispanic narrative and the economic and commercial concerns of Spanish-speaking peoples around the world from a variety of historical periods. Balancing a study of writers' perspectives on current economic conditions with a look at literary versions of economic events, this anthology provides a window into Hispanic culture for both the student of...

Este libro parecera una disertacin acerca del antiguo problema filosfico de la relacin entre el nombre y la cosa. Sin embargo, el ensayo -producto de las conferencias que el gran escritor portugus dict en la Ctedra Alfonso Reyes del Tecnolgico de Monterrey- resulta una fuerte crtica de la situacin poltica actual en el mundo, en el sentido de que las definiciones que histricamente han encumbrado los valores de la poltica: democracia, igualdad, Estado, derechos humanos, no corresponden a la realidad de los hechos. De esta lamentable incompatibilidad, Saramago arma su lcida y devastadora crtica, ...

Aquests dos volums d'assajos tracten de diversos aspectes i autors de la literatura nord-americana, des dels orígens puritans fins als nostres dies. Des de la problemàtica de la possible elaboració d'un cànon literari nord-americà fins a, passant per autors com Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Thoreau, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Sinclair Lewis, Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, J. D. Salinger, John Steinbeck i William Kennedy, es presenta una visió d'aquesta literatura que té en compte els textos literaris dins del desenvolupament històric, polític i econòmic del país.