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Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...

This book analyzes, conceptualizes and historicizes the amateur translator figure as political and cultural agent in US-Latin American relations, from the end of the 19th century to the mid-20th century. Centered on the work of two US-American translators, Alice Stone Blackwell and Isaac Goldberg, it is the first study to offer a modern history of the amateur translator as subject of resistance and cultural mediator between the two regions.

One of the most intellectually and emotionally engaging of the Spanish Golden Age (seventeenth century) plays, as well as the most controversial. Taking place during the reign of King Pedro of Castile (1350¡1369), it is one of the spectacular 'honour dramas', in which the main characters confront compelling yet conflicting imperatives.

Esta obra constituye una oportuna contribución a los estudios literarios del Caribe colombiano. Si bien no todos los escritores examinados proceden de este espacio cultural, ni han tenido el mismo reconocimiento, la preeminencia del Caribe queda fuera de toda sospecha con estudios sobre Gabriel García Márquez, Germán Espinosa, Alberto Duque López, Alejandro Álvarez y Efraim Medina Reyes. Sus páginas, que complementan artículos sobre William Ospina, Alfredo Bryce Echenique y Juan José Saer, conjugan la precisión de la crítica contemporánea con el lenguaje de los textos bien...