Publications

El estrellado establo: infinito e improvisación en el Siglo de Oro
Roberto González Echevarría
Publication Year: 2019
Description:

El estrellado establo: infinito e improvisación en el Siglo de Oro.  It is about the impact of the Copernican revolution on Golden Age Spanish literature: Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Calderón, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut (Translation/Transnation)
Robyn Creswell
Publication Year: 2018
Description:

City of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial Arabic literary development of the twentieth century. Robyn Creswell introduces English-language readers to a poetic movement that will be uncannily familiar―and unsettlingly strange. He also provides an intellectual history of Lebanon during the early Cold War, when Beirut became both a battleground for rival ideologies and the most vital artistic site in the Middle East.

We Are Broken Rhymes: The Politics of Trauma in Hebrew Literature
Hannan Hever
Publication Year: 2017
Description:

This book is a methodical, comprehensive work that locates and analyzes the presence of trauma in the language, poetics and politics of Israeli literature. It raises acute questions about the politics of literature, and of its moral authority; it focuses on the responsibility of the author within the literary text. The book investigates the literary processing of trauma embedded in the destruction of European Jewry, of the 1948 war, the Palestinian Nakba, and the war of 1973 as they appear in the works of S. Yizhar; Leah Goldberg; Avot Yeshurun; Nathan Alterman; Aharon Apelfeld; Dan Pagis; Erez Biton; Yitzhak Laor; Shimon Ballas; Haim Beer and Rivka Basman Ben-Haim.

Spaces of Feeling Affect and Awareness in Modernist Literature
Marta Figlerowicz
Publication Year: 2017
Description:

Can other people notice our affects more easily than we do? In Spaces of Feeling, Marta Figlerowicz examines modernist novels and poems that treat this possibility as electrifying, but also deeply disturbing. Their characters and lyric speakers are undone, Figlerowicz posits, by the realization that they depend on others to solve their inward affective conundrums—and that, to these other people, their feelings often do not seem mysterious at all.

Relecturas del cuento hispanoamericano
Roberto González Echevarría
Publication Year: 2017
Description:

Con más de 30 mil ejemplares vendidos y una fama que ha trascendido con mucho las esferas académicas, The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories es considerada una obra de referencia para conocer y entender el fenómeno del cuento latinoamericano.

En estas Relecturas, el autor de la preciada antología, Roberto González Echevarría, presenta por primera vez en español la introducción de su icónica obra, la que acompaña de dos ensayos sobre cuentos latinoamericanos –uno de Borges y otro de Carpentier– que son una muestra de su aproximación al género y de su estilo de crítica.

La ruta de Severo Sarduy
Roberto González Echevarría
Publication Year: 2017
Description:

La ruta de Severo Sarduy sentó coordenadas de lectura cuya actualidad, en lo que atañe a la obra de Sarduy pero también en tanto operatoria crítica, viene a confirmarse con esta edición definitiva.

HYMNS & QUALMS
Peter Cole
Publication Year: 2017
Description:

Hymns & Qualms brings together MacArthur Fellow Peter Cole’s acclaimed poetry and translations, weaving them into a helical whole. Praised for his “prosodic mastery” and “keen moral intelligence” (American Poets), and for the “rigor, vigor, joy, and wit” of his poetry (The Paris Review), Cole has created a vital, unclassifiable body of work that plumbs centuries of wisdom while paying sharp attention to the textures and tensions of the present. He is, Harold Bloom writes, “a matchless translator and one of the handful of authentic poets in his own American generation. Hymns & Qualms is a majestic work, a chronicle of the imaginative life of a profoundly spiritual consciousness.”Cole is a maker—of poems and worlds.

Breve historia de la literatura latinoanoamericana colonial y moderna
Roberto González Echevarría
Publication Year: 2017
Description:

Aunque este libro puede parecer escrito a cuatro manos por sus dos autores, no lo es realmente; cada uno de nosotros escribió su parte independientemente, aunque consultándonos a menudo y pensando en una totalidad coherente. La idea para este libro nació poco después de comenzar a escribir nuestras respectivas Very Short Introductions para la serie de Oxford. Al pensar en el lector que quisiera leer tanto el de Colonial Latin American Literature como el de Modern Latin American Literature, decidimos crear un “puente” con la figura y obra de Andrés Bello (1781-1865).

Spenser and the Human, a special issue of Spenser Studies (Volume XXX)
Ayesha Ramachandran
Publication Year: 2016
Description:

co-edited with Melissa Sanchez

forthcoming.

Exemplary Novels Miguel de Cervantes; Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman; Edited by Roberto González Echevarría
Roberto González Echevarría
Publication Year: 2016
Description:
The twelve novellas gathered together in Exemplary Novels reveal the extraordinary breadth of Cervantes’s imagination: his nearly limitless ability to create characters, invent plots, and entertain readers across continents and centuries. Cervantes published his book in Spain in 1613. The assemblage of unique characters (eloquent witches, talking dogs, Gypsy orphans, and an array of others), the twisting plots, and the moral heart at the core of each tale proved irresistible to his enthusiastic audience. Then as now, Cervantes’s readers find pure entertainment in his pages, but also a subtle artistry that invites deeper investigation.
To Inherit the Land, to Conquer the Space: The Beginning of Hebrew Literature in Eretz-Israel
Hannan Hever
Publication Year: 2015
Description:

This book follows key moments in the rise of Hebrew poetry in Eretz-Israel. The book clarifies the literary and political meaning of the “beginning” of literature as it is constituted by the great narratives of Hebrew literature: Zionism, and the settlement of the Land of Israel. The Zionist encounter of with the space of Eretz-Israel is revealed to be a violent one; Hebrew poetry written about it not only represents it but actually takes an active role in its creation. This poetry is understood here as a mechanism for “aesthetic conquest” of space manifested through the poetics and the language of the poetry developing in Eretz-Israel.

The Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe
Ayesha Ramachandran
Publication Year: 2015
Description:

The Worldmakers reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, exciting, and frightening concept, “the world” was transformed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But how could one envision something that no one had ever seen in its totality? Moving beyond histories of globalization, this book explores how “the world” itself—variously understood as an object of inquiry, a comprehensive category, and a system of order—was self-consciously shaped by human agents.