"De motas a rizos"

This is a collection of 29 essays from many of the world's top scholars to honor their beloved and influential colleague and mentor, Frederick A. de Armas. The essays are grouped into the categories "Studies in CalderÓn," "Iberian Stages," "Reading the Siglo de Oro: Poetry and Prose," and "Don Quixote."

En este libro, Juan Gavito, poeta ficticio, narra las peripecias de su vida, la razón por la que ha dejado de escribir, y al final, se encuentra con que vive en una especie de paraíso clausurado, encerrado dentro de las palabras; y aunque ha dejado de escribir, su obra literaria permanece. La identidad variable, la soledad, la inestabilidad del amor y la melancolía permanente conducen al poeta, maestro reconocido y admirado, a una vida dedicada a la destrucción. Los seres más cercanos son para el escritor apenas espejismos de la realidad imposible de amar o compartir. Su discípulo...

Mujeres en transito examines in detail the insightful accounts of four prominent female writers who traveled to and from Latin America in the nineteenth century: the French Peruvian socialist and activist Flora Tristan (1803-44), the Argentines Juana Manuela Gorriti (1816-92), Eduarda Mansilla (1834-92), and the Peruvian Clorinda Matto de Turner (1852-1909). Each author traveled and wrote in different and significant moments in the history of the Latin American nations, and their texts touch upon the nature of hemispheric and European cross-cultural relations. Mujeres en transito revises the...

Following studies by Goodman, Waley, and Darst, this new study of Garcilaso's work rejects as unfounded the traditional readings of Garcilaso's poetry based on the idea of sincerity and the poet's frustrated love for the Portuguese lady-in-waiting Isabel Freire. In place of the much-abused concept of sincerity, Heiple argues that the intellectual currents of the Renaissance are much more important for the analysis of Garcilaso's poetry. He analyzes in Garcilaso's poetry the uses of Renaissance concepts of mythology, poetic style, theories of love, primitivism, and iconological traditions....