Teoría de la literatura

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,...

Penetrar en la visión del mundo de Dante es el objetivo de la peregrinación que Horia-Roman Patapievici emprende en este ensayo. Dante se habría esforzado, según el autor, por conciliar en su cosmos lo teológico y lo científico-político, cuestión irresoluble para sus contemporáneos. Poeta extraordinario y experto conocedor de la cultura científica, filosófica y teológica de su tiempo, Dante describe en los últimos cantos del Paraíso un mundo absolutamente distinto al entrevisto por la crítica: se trata de un cosmos no euclidiano, asombrosamente afín a las teorías del universo ...

Colombia produced one of the richest literatures of Latin America, as much for its abundance as for its variety and innovation during the 19th century. This value has been unknown due to subsequent writers and critics that rejected the importance of this literature and influenced readers to ignore this literary production as noteworthy. In the same way, this lack of recognition has been perpetuated by the absence of information of the literary works produced during the 19th century and has hampered the investigation and research of new generations of readers. Therefore, this Bibliography of...

Este libro, producto de una rigurosa investigación doctoral, plantea la hipótesis de que, además de la protesta femenina, en la obra de Marvel Moreno existe un discurso sobre el mestizaje en el Caribe colombiano. Este discurso narra los prejuicios de la alta sociedad barranquillera, provenientes de la Colonia, sobre la herencia mestiza y negra en los personajes.