Buenos Aires Poetry N°4

A careful re-evaluation of pastoral poetics in the early modern Hispanic literature of Spain and Latin America.

Eamonn Wall arrived in the United States in the 1980s as part of a wave of young, educated immigrants who became known as the "New Irish." In this book he comments on his own experiences and those of his generation, who identify as much with contemporary ethnic and immigrant America as they do with the long-settled Irish American community. Wall's starting point is the now-closed Sin-é Café in New York's East Village, which was a hangout in the early 1990s for expatriate Irish musicians, actors, and writers. He comments on the poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs of both the New Irish and...

El género novela histórica vivió a finales del siglo XX una singular renovación en América Latina. En la literatura colombiana este fenómeno se expresó en dos grandes tendencias: la que prolongaba la visión hegemónica de la historia nacional y la que contestaba esa visión poniendo en la escena de la historia precolonial, colonial y republicana la variopinta diversidad cultural e histórica colombiana, sólo reconocida formalmente a partir de la Constitución política de 1991. Este libro aborda este contraste a través del estudio de algunas de las novelas históricas publicadas...

El estudio demuestra que en la obra de Fernando de Rojas la parodia no se limita a los elementos típicos del amor cortés, sino a la novela sentimental en conjunto mediante inversiones, absurdos, ironías, sarcasmos e incongruencias.