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Alexander Selimov currently works at the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Delaware. Alexander does research in the field of Spanish and Latin American literatures of the 18th & 19th centuries. The most recent publication is "Derroteros de la memoria: Pelayo y Egilona en el teatro ilustrado y romántico", Almenara Press. 2018
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José María Heredia es un escritor canónico del período en que se forjan las identidades nacionales de las nuevas repúblicas latinoamericanas. Nacido en Cuba y exiliado en México, Heredia, junto con Joaquín Olmedo y Andrés Bello, se ha dado a conocer como el cantor de América y poeta fundacional. Escribió durante el período de transición entre la il...
The success of the romantic drama Leoncia marks the beginning of Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda's career in the theatre. Literary critics have seen in this work two great romantic topics, love and destiny. This essay argues that the author uses romantic rhetoric to address the issue of virtue and of its manipulation within a hierarchical structure o...
Professor Romero Tobar is a distinguished scholar of Spanish Peninsular Literature, well known in academic circles for his significant contributions to Hispanic literary criticism, and in particular, to the field of Romantic studies. The reviewed volume is a collection of twenty interpretive essays in Spanish, eighteen of which were published as ar...
Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda (1814-1873) stands out as a major figure in nineteenth century Spanish literature. Praised as a distinguished poet and dramatist, she has also produced prose of remarkable quality in the novelistic and epistolary genres, as well as short stories and an autobiography. Her prose, although classified traditionally as Roma...
El texto de El diablo mundo consta de dos núcleos estructurales que enmarcan dos textos: un poema narrativo largo y un poema lírico menos extenso. Por una lectura atenta de ambos se revela la existencia de una serie de reflejos como al espejo: Espronceda y Teresa en el Canto II viven la misma experiencia que Adán, Salada y Lucía en los restantes ca...
