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  • Borges

    An Introduction

    by Julio Premat ...
    Translated by Amanda Murphy ...
    This book, available for the first time in English, offers a thorough introductory reading of Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most remarkable and influential writers of the twentieth century. Julio Premat, a specialist in the field of Borges studies, presents the main questions posed by Borges's often paradoxical writing, and leads the novice through the complexity and breadth of Borges's vast ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This Very Short Introduction chronicles the trends and traditions of modern Latin American literature, arguing that Latin American literature developed as a continent-wide phenomenon, not just an assemblage of national literatures, in moments of political crisis. With the Spanish American War came Modernismo, the end of World War I and the Mexican Revolution produced the avant-garde, and the Cuban ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • 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

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Translation

    Translators on Their Work and What It Means

    Edited by Esther Allen, Susan Bernofsky ...
    The most comprehensive collection of perspectives on translation to date, this anthology features essays by some of the world's most skillful writers and translators, including Haruki Murakami, Alice Kaplan, Peter Cole, Eliot Weinberger, Forrest Gander, Clare Cavanagh, David Bellos, and José Manuel Prieto. Discussing the process and possibilities of their art, they cast translation as a fine ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • 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

    $35.99 CAD

  • 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

    $36.99 CAD

  • Borges and His Fiction

    A Guide to His Mind and Art

    by Gene H. Bell-Villada ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    The acclaimed author of García Márquez delivers "a compulsively readable account of the life and works of our greatest . . . writer of fantasy" ( New York Daily News).Since its first publication in 1981, Borges and His Fiction has introduced the life and works of this Argentinian master-writer to an entire generation of students, high school and college teachers, and general readers. Responding to ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jorge Luis Borges

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ilan Stavans ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Jorge Luis Borges (1899--1986) is one of the most influential literary figures of the twentieth century. His short stories, poems, essays, and translations explore Argentine mythology, mysticism, philosophical ideas, and myriad other topics. This Very Short Introduction gives an engaging overview of Borges's life and the major themes of his oeuvre. Ilan Stavans places Borges in the context of ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa

    Edited by Efrain Kristal, John King ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    One of the major novelists in world literature over the last five decades, Mario Vargas Llosa (b. 1936) is also one of Latin America's most engaging public intellectuals, a critic of art and culture, and a playwright of distinction. This Companion's chapters chart the development of Vargas Llosa's writings from his rise to prominence in the early 1960s to the award of the Nobel Prize for ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Mexican Philosophy in the 20th Century

    Essential Readings

    Edited by Robert Eli Sanchez, Jr., Carlos Alberto Sánchez ...
    Series series Oxford New Histories of Philosophy
    Sánchez and Sanchez have selected, edited, translated, and introduced some of the most influential texts in Mexican philosophy, which constitute a unique and robust tradition that will challenge and complicate traditional conceptions of philosophy. The texts collected here are organized chronologically and represent a period of Mexican thought and culture that emerged from the Mexican Revolution ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Space In-Between

    Essays on Latin American Culture

    by Silviano Santiago, Fredric Jameson ...
    Translated by Tom Burns, Gareth Williams, Ana Lucia Gazzola ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation
    Silviano Santiago has been a pioneer in the development of concepts crucial to the discourse of contemporary critical and cultural theory, especially postcolonial theory. The notions of “hybridity” and “the space in-between” have been so completely absorbed into current theory that few scholars even realize these terms began with Santiago. He was the first to introduce poststructuralist thought to ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • A Revisionary History of Portuguese Literature

    Edited by Miguel Tamen, Helena C. Buescu ...
    Series series Hispanic Issues
    This collection of original essays traces the history of Portuguese literature from the medieval period to the present, providing provocative new interpretations of this previously neglected literary history. The volume serves as a comprehensive introduction to Portuguese literature to students new to the field, and provides new insight into the ongoing controversies on the subject. The ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD