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Baudelaire, Emerson and the French-American connection : contrary affinities

Publications

Apr 1, 2013

A Contracorriente

Founded in 2003 as a refereed, electronic journal designed to stimulate socio-historical analyses of Latin American literature and to counteract the relativism present in poststructuralism and postmodernism, A Contracorriente evolved, shortly thereafter, as a journal dedicated to Latin American studies. It aims to foster intellectual debate about Latin American politics, history, economics, literature and culture from socio-historical…

Jan 4, 2013

Montaigne among the moderns : receptions of the Essais

Montaigne is one of the most cross-cultural writers ever - both in the assimilation of writings from other cultures into his own work and in the subsequent translations, critical receptions, and creative adaptations of the Essais by other writers throughout the world for the last four hundred years. His work is generally considered as exemplary of the European Renaissance, yet also demonstrates a remarkable relevance to the literary and intellectual activity at the present time.

Jan 4, 2013

Verses against the darkness : Pablo Neruda’s poetry and politics

Dawes (Latin American and world literature, North Carolina State U.) offers a new assessment of Neruda's poetry by examining the intersection of his aesthetic views, methods and political radicalism from 1925 to 1954.

Jan 4, 2013

New World gold : cultural anxiety and monetary disorder in early modern Spain

The discovery of the New World was initially a cause for celebration. But the vast amounts of gold that Columbus and other explorers claimed from these lands altered Spanish society. The influx of such wealth contributed to the expansion of the Spanish empire, but also it raised doubts and insecurities about the meaning and function of money, the ideals of court and civility, and the structure of commerce and credit.

Jan 1, 2013

Editorial A Contracorriente

Editorial A Contracorriente, associated with the refereed on-line journal A Contracorriente, publishes refereed books on Latin American studies in Spanish or English. We are a non-profit press that publishes single author monographs and edited volumes that address political, sociological, literary, historical, economic and cultural issues from innovative, progressive and critical points of view. As the name of…

Dec 21, 2012

Baudelaire, Emerson and the French-American connection : contrary affinities

Baudelaire and Emerson, as socially-conscious individualists par excellence, lend themselves remarkably to Marchi's (French and comparative literature, North Carolina State U.) study of how France and the United States have warily borrowed from and dismissed one another in their modern projects of democracy and reconciling the individual with the collective.