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"This new English translation of Canaima should be welcomed by all readers of Gallegos. In addition to Kirkland's translation (based on Charles Minguet's 1991 critique of the novel in Spanish), work contains his engaging and provocative translator's essay

How Far is America From Here? approaches American nations and cultures from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It is very much at the heart of this comparative agenda that “America” be considered as a hemispheric and global matter. It discusses American identities relationally, whether the relations under discussion operate within the borders of the United States, throughout the Americas, and/or worldwide. The various articles here gathered interrogate the very notion of “America”: which, whose America, when, why now, how? What is meant by “far”—distance,...

Marisol perales y Carmen García-Romeu, apoyadas en los conocimientos de Mary Carmen Lafuente Laín, y su interés por los itinerarios culturales de Madrid, han escrito una historia llena de humor e ingenio, para niños y mayores; una historia de aventuras intergalácticas, de señuelos que dirigen a la resolución de misterios, pero, sobre todo, de leyendas de Madrid. Este libro ayudará a conocer mejor esos parajes que en otro tiempo pusieron los cimientos de lo que hoy es Madrid, una ciudad acogedora y emblemática, con secretos callejones y espaciosas autovías. Una ciudad que atrapa...

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....