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  • Behind the Frontiers of the Real

    A Definition of the Fantastic

    by David Roas ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book offers a definition of the fantastic that establishes it as a discourse in constant intertextual relation with the construct of reality. In establishing the definition of the fantastic, leading scholar David Roas selects four central concepts that allow him to chart a fairly clear map of this terrain: reality, the impossible, fear, and language. These four concepts underscore the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Jorge Luis Borges

    Edited by Edwin Williamson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was one of the great writers of the twentieth century and the most influential author in the Spanish language of modern times. He had a seminal influence on Latin American literature and a lasting impact on literary fiction in many other languages. However, Borges has been accessible in English only through a number of anthologies drawn mainly from his work of the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: Formative Years

    by Ricardo Piglia, Robert Croll, Ilan Stavans ...
    “Cognizant of his impending death, Piglia, the Argentine titan of letters who died of A.L.S. in January, prepared his 327 notebooks for publication in a trilogy…. Splendidly crafted and interspliced with essays and stories, this beguiling work is to a diary as Piglia is to 'Emilio Renzi': a lifelong alter ego, a highly self-conscious shadow volume that brings to bear all of Piglia’s prowess as it ... Read more

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  • Roberto Bolaño's Fiction

    An Expanding Universe

    by Chris Andrews ...
    Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature in translation. Chris Andrews, a leading translator of Bolaño's work into English, explores the singular achievements of the author's oeuvre, engaging with its distinct style and key thematic concerns, incorporating his novels and stories into the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Why Translation Matters

    by Edith Grossman ...

    $17.29 USD

  • Mario Vargas Llosa

    A Collection of Critical Essays

    Edited by Charles Rossman, Alan Warren Friedman ...
    The Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa has been acclaimed throughout the literary world as one of Latin America's finest writers, yet until recently little has been written about his work in English. While his work has the subject of an increasing flow of critical commentary in Spanish and his major novels have been translated into English, this is the first full-scale critical treatment of Vargas Llosa ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Latin American Gothic in Literature and Culture

    Edited by Inés Ordiz, Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This book explores the Gothic mode as it appears in the literature, visual arts, and culture of different areas of Latin America. Focusing on works from authors in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, the Andes, Brazil, and the Southern Cone, the essays in this volume illuminate the existence of native representations of the Gothic, while also exploring the presence of universal archetypes of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Poetry in Pieces

    César Vallejo and Lyric Modernity

    by Michelle Clayton ...
    Series Book 4 - FlashPoints
    Set against the cultural and political backdrop of interwar Europe and the Americas, Poetry in Pieces is the first major study of the Peruvian poet César Vallejo (1892–1938) to appear in English in more than thirty years. Vallejo lived and wrote in two distinct settings—Peru and Paris—which were continually crisscrossed by new developments in aesthetics, politics, and practices of everyday life; ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Reading Visual Poetry

    by Willard Bohn ...
    Visual poetry can be defined as poetry that is meant to be seen. Combining painting and poetry, it attempts to synthesize the principles underlying each discipline. Visual poems are immediately recognizable by their refusal to adhere to a rectilinear grid and by their tendency to flout their plasticity. In contrast to traditional poetry, they are conceived not only as literary works but also as ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Adolfo Bioy Casares

    Borges, Fiction and Art

    Edited by Karl Posso ...
    Series Book 1 - Iberian and Latin American Studies
    Best known as Jorge Luis Borges's right-hand man, Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914-1999) was, in his own right, an inventive writer of considerable skill. His works, often dismissed summarily as fantastic fiction, are now ripe for reassessment. This volume looks at Bioy's extensive oeuvre which offers many surprising reflections on the twentieth century s cultural, social and political transformations, ... Read more

    $24.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cultural Hermeneutics

    Essays after Unamuno and Ricoeur

    by Mario Valdes ...
    In Cultural Hermeneutics, Mario J. Valdés offers a synthesis of the hermeneutic philosophies of Miguel de Unamuno and Paul Ricoeur, a dialectical method that has formed the basis for many of Valdés’ own studies in comparative literature. As Valdés explains in these insightful essays, what Unamuno and Ricoeur shared in their hermeneutic studies was a theory of interpretation in which the meaning of ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • A Companion to Luis Buñuel

    Edited by Rob Stone, Julián Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
    A Companion to Luis Buñuel presents a collection of critical readings by many of the foremost film scholars that examines and reassesses myriad facets of world-renowned filmmaker Luis Buñuel’s life, works, and cinematic themes.A collection of critical readings that examine and reassess the controversial filmmaker’s life, works, and cinematic themesFeatures readings from several of the most highly ... Read more

    $170.00 USD