Recently added articles from Hispanic Review:
Revealing beauty/revealing history in El sueno de Venicia.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... To find something beautiful is to register the kinship between the object and the most important part of oneself--one's soul. --John Armstrong, The Secret Power of Beauty ABSTRACT Paloma Diaz-Mas's El sueno de Venecia is a historical novel that traces not only ...
Confinement, consolation, and confession in Galdos's La desheredada.(Galdos, Benito Perez)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This article examines the motif of confinement in Galdos's La desheredada (1881) as an anxious commentary on socio-political structures in Restoration Spain and on the writer's literary form in this novel. The objective of the study is to show that Galdos's appraisal of successive ...
The politics of form: three twentieth-century Spanish American poets and the sonnet.(Alfonsina Storni, Enrique Lihn, and Reinaldo Arenas)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This article engages the idea of poetic form to create a dialogue among three very different twentieth-century Spanish American poets: Argentine Alfonsina Storni, Chilean Enrique Lihn, and Cuban Reinaldo Arenas. Each of them uses the sonnet's privileged position in Western ...
Denuncia y univocidad: la narracion del trujillato.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... La Efrain K. RESUMEN Este ensayo hace un recorrido por las variadas modulaciones que adopta la representacion literaria de la dictadura de Trujillo a traves del tiempo: entre la denuncia y la univocidad. Las distintas formas que adquiere esta ficcion dan cuenta de la complejidad ...
Indeterminacy and the subversive in representations of the trujillato.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The mid-twentieth-century dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo established in the Dominican Republic one of the most hermetically tyrannical states in the history of Latin America. The most well-known literary reconstruction in Spanish of that regime is La fiesta del Chivo by Mario ...