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Si bien este estudio se limita a un determinado autor, el poeta chileno Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948), y a una obra en particular, "Altazor o el viaje en paracaidas" tanto autor como obra son piedras de toque de la complejidad y variedad del quehacer poetico del presente siglo. Ya era hora de dedicarle un analisis -exhaustivo- a la obra mas ambiciosa de Huidobro. El presente estudio usa un enfoque teorico distinto en cada uno de sus cinco capitulos para explorar los elementos ideologico-esteticos, estructurales, lexicologicos, simbolicos y metricos encontrados en el poema. Cada via teorica, a...

In this brilliant overview of parodic praxis in the Spanish-American novel during the years 1960-1985, Elzbieta SkPlodowska examines several aspects of parody: its role in the renovation of anachronistic forms of discourse (mock-epic) and the re-writing of the canon of the historical novel; its function in transgressing literary formulas (detective novel); its subversive quality in the counter-discourse of women writers; and the relation between parody, satire, irony, humor, and metafiction. This sound analysis of some twenty-five novels, carefully illustrated by works little treated in...

This collection of essays presents views on Don Quijote by noted Latin American philosophers, historians, sociologists, poets, and novelists. It intends to make the student of Hispanic culture aware of the profound love and admiration that Hispanic America has always demonstrated toward Cervantes and his masterpiece. Until now, the contributions of Latin American intellectuals to Cervantine studies have largely been ignored in publications in the United States. Written in Spanish, this text will be useful to the student and scholar of Hispanic literature and Latin American Studies.

The evening that everyone has been waiting for has finally come. Heinrich Heine's "El pobre Pedro" will be performed on stage, by children for children. The young actors are getting ready for their grand entrance, while the theater-goers are streaming in. The curtain goes up and the story begins, the story of how Peter doesn't get Greta. It's dramatic, exciting, and sometimes even funny. By looking at the pictures, the reader can see how the audience reacts. They are either surprised, appaled, or amused. In his picture book for children, Peter Schössow adapts this old tale of love and...