Utopía

Language-as signifier and signified-serves as the focus of Diz's book on the Conde Lucanor. This is, indeed, an intelligent reading of the Conde Lucanor which will have considerable impact on Juan Manuel criticism and fourteenth-century studies.

In the past decades, with the decline of the Grand Narratives and the subsequent need for new historical and political orientation, literary studies have been reflecting on the role of literature in the world. Together with Jacques Rancière—and in dialogue with Althusser, Foucault, or Fischer-Lichte—the present volume analyzes this political turn of literary studies.

El Apologético de Espinosa Medrano es un testimonio tardío de la polémica gongorina, el único escrito en América por un defensor del poeta. Se trata de un tratado erudito de crítica literaria en el que un joven predicador y catedrático de Artes y Teología hace gala de su saber, su gracia y su estilo para defender al príncipe de los poetas de España contra los ataques vertidos por Manuel de Faria e Sousa, polígrafo portugués y defensor de Camões. Publicado en Lima en 1662, el libro es también una reivindicación criolla de Espinosa Medrano y de su círculo, apoyada en un contexto ...

Don Catrín de la Fachenda is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776-1827), best known as the author of El periquillo sarniento (The Itching Parrot), often called the first Latin American novel. Don Catrín is three things at once: a rakish pícaro in the tradition of the picaresque; a catrín, a dandy or fop; and a criollo, a person born in the New World and belonging to the same dominant class as their Spanish-born parents but relegated to a secondary status. The novel interrogates then current ideas about the supposed innateness of race and...