1st Edition
Twentieth-Century Spanish American Literature to 1960
356 Pages
by
Routledge
The greater body of Spanish American letters stands in somewhat of an ancillary relationship to the traditions that arose in Europe. Only at the end of the 19th century, with the emergence of modernismo , which was linked to European aesthetic movements such as French Parnassianism and Symbolism, there emerged a wave of literary innovations and experimentation that ushered in the modern era.... Read more
Series Introduction, Volume Introduction, Mariano Azuela (1873-1952) Horaclo Qulroga (1878-1937) Gabrlela Mistral (1889-1957) Cisar Vallejo (1892-1938) Vicente Huldobro (1893-1948) Mlquel Angel Asturias (1899-1974) Jorge Luls Borges (1899-1988) Nlcolis Gulllin (1902-1989) Xavler Vlllaurrutla (1903-1950) Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980) Juan Carlos Onettl (1909-1994).
Biography
David William Foster is Regents' Professor of Spanish, Interdisiplinary Humanitics, and Women's Studies and Chair of the Department of Languages and Literatures at Arizona State University. He is the editor of Literatura Espanola: una Antologia, Literatura Hispanoamericana: una Antologia, and Handbook of Latin American Literature, Second Edition, all published by Garland.
Daniel Altamiranda is Visiting Assistant Professor at Arizona State University. Former Assistant Professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, he has published on literary theory, contemporary Latin American writing and Golden Age Drama.
