El requeté que gritó Gora Euskadi

Luis Antonio de Villena (Madrid, 1951) es una de las voces más singulares y combativas del panorama poético español contemporáneo, tanto por su contribución a la expansión y posterior evolución de la estética novísima, como por su personalísima poética y su manera de reivindicar la heterodoxia. Una heterodoxia que incide por supuesto en el terreno político y social, pero también, y sobre todo, en el sexual. El hecho de que su poesía sea esencialmente homoerótica no puede hacernos olvidar que la obra de Villena, en su conjunto, puede ser leída como un elaboradísimo Tratado de...

This volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial...

Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, Mar�a Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832?95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. An aristocratic Californiana, she championed the rights of Mexican Americans in novels, plays, and letters. Her 1885 novel called attention to the illegal appropriation of Mexican land by the United States government, and she critiqued the political mores of America after the Civil War in light of the Mexican-American war. Her keen assessment of corporate capitalism at the end of the nineteenth...

Just as philosophy begins with doubt, life worthy of being called human begins with irony. This quote by Kierkegaard leads an essay that traces a journey through irony and its uses from Socrates to Foster Wallace, up to its use in our societies marked by "mass public conversation."