The Modern Mexican Essay / Jose Luis Martinez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hilborn, H.W.

Martínez, José Luis, Editor.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican essays--Translations into English.

Mexican essays.

Genre:

Translations.

Translations into English.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 524 pages) : illustrations, map

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Professor Hilborn has aimed primarily at presenting a Mexican national outlook, in the hope that more people may be led to interest themselves in the psychological and spiritual aspects of Mexican culture.

Contents:

Cover; TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE, by Harry W. Hilborn; INTRODUCTION, by Jose Luis Martínez; Justo Sierra (1848-1912); Prologue to the Poems of Manuel Gutierrez Nájera; The Festival of Sodzil; Discourse at the Inauguration of the National University; Jose López Portillo y Rojas (1850-1923); Prologue to The Plot of Land; Manuel Gutierrez Nájera (1859-1895); Aesthetics of Prose; Francisco A. de Icaza (1863-1925); Mexican Letters; Luis G. Urbina (1868-1934); Origin and Character of Mexican Literature; Amado Nervo (1870-1919); Let's Speak of Writers and Literature; Rafael López (1875-1943)

Provincial MayorsJose Vasconcelos (1881- ); Sadness; Books I Read Sitting and Books I Read Standing; Glad Pessimism; The Embittered; Carlos González Peña (1885-1955); Provincial Slumber; Martín Luis Guzmán (1887- ); My Friend Credulity; The Unpopularity of the Senses; Ramón López Velarde (1888-1921); Masterpiece; In the Ancestral Home; The New Homeland; Ashes and Poplars; The Punitive Flower; Meditation on the Public Walk; Joseph of Arimathea; Filth; The Rout of Language; Mother Earth; Alfonso Reyes (1889- ); Palinode on Dust; Aristarchus or the Anatomy of Criticism

Parrasio or Moral PaintingBorn in '89; Notes on the American Mind; Manuel Toussaint (1890-1955); The House of Sugar-paste in Puebla; American Art; Jesús Silva Herzog (1892- ); Meditations on Mexico; Ermilo Abreu Gómez (1894- ); Literary Reflections; Julio Jimenez Rueda (1896- ); Mexico in Search of Her Expression; Alfonso Caso (1896- ); Is the Mexican Indian a Mexican?; Samuel Ramos (1897-1959); Psycho-analysis of the Mexican; Creole Culture; Daniel Cosío Villegas (1900- ); American Problems; Jaime Torres Bodet (1902- ); Reflections on the Novel; Duty and Honour of the Writer

Xavier Villaurrutia (1903-1950)Painting Unmarked; The Face and the Portrait; The Poetry of Ramón López Velarde; Jorge Cuesta (1903-1942); Modern Art; Salvador Díaz Mirón; French Culture in Mexico; Mexican Classicism; Augustin Yáñez (1904- ); Meditations on the Indigenous Soul; Justino Fernández (1904- ); Orozco, Genius of America; Cesar Garizurieta (1904- ); Catharsis of the Mexican; Andres Iduarte (1907- ); Cortez and Cuauhtemoc: Hispanicism, Indigenism; Antonio Gómez Robledo (1908- ); Philosophy and Language; Leopoldo Zea (1912- ); Concerning an American Philosophy; Octavio Paz (1914- )

Introduction to the History of Mexican PoetryThe Disembodied Word; Jose E. Iturriaga (1914- ); The Character of the Mexican; Arturo Arnáiz y Freg (1915- ); Panorama of Mexico; Emilio Uranga (1921- ); The Mexican and Humanism; Pablo González Casanova (1922- ); Propaganda or the New Rhetoric

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-7752-4

OCLC:

1129141449