Escritos e autores na Galicia da Ilustración

Ya sea por razones personales, políticas o meramente aventureras, muchos autores europeos y latinoamericanos escaparon de sus países de nacimiento y atravesaron el Atlántico, adquirieron otra lengua e incluso escribieron en ese idioma que les prestó su nueva patria temporal. Traven, Artaud, Burroughs y Lowry en México; Hemingway en Cuba; Zweig, Bernanos y Cendrars en Brasil; César Vallejo y César Moro en París, pero también Breton, Lawrence, Gombrowicz, y Michaux, entre tantos otros, produjeron numerosas obras mayores a partir de esta errancia a ultramar. Unos partieron a Europa en...

"First-person narrative does not always fall under the genre of autobiography. In the centuries before the genre was defined, authors often patterned their personal narratives after prestigious discourses, such as hagiography, historiography, and the literary miscellany.Caballero noble desbaratado: Autobiografía e invención en el siglo XVI: "Noble Knight Disrupted: Autobiography and Invention in the Sixteenth Century analyzes several first-person narratives from Spain and the conditions of their writing and reception. It focuses on the sixteenth-century Libro de la vida y costumbres (Book...

The book offers an in-depth, critical appreciation of seven major Spanish poets. Emphasis is on the modern period, with five of the poets being twentieth-century poets. It is argued that the roots of modern poetry are to be found in Romanticism's anguished search for meaning. The seven Spanish poets include Becquer, Rosalia de Castro, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillen, Pedro Salinas, Garcia Lorca and Rafael Alberti.

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...