Sitio de la Tierra

El consumo del vellón (1660), auto sacramental atribuido a Pedro Calderón de la Barca, despierta interés, no tanto por su espectacularidad escénica, como por la complejidad de sus alusiones bíblicas, históricas y hasta crematísticas, pues el motivo argumental que lo sustenta es la política monetaria de los monarcas de la Casa de Austria. La presente edición aborda la consideración de la obra en su doble vertiente de texto literario y espectacular. El estudio se completa con una lista de variantes de todos los testimonios conservados (seis en total) y un apéndice en que se indexan...

A thorough study of the life and works of the Chilean poet, winner of the 1991 "Premio Pablo Neruda."

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...

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...