Studies in Magic From Latin Literature

Robert Boyers founded the American intellectual journal Salmagundi in 1965, and continues to edit it at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, where he is also Professor of English and Director of the New York State Summer Writers Institute. He writes frequently for such publications as The New Republic, TLS, Dissent, The American Scholar, Partisan Review, and the New York Times Book Review. The most recent of his six books are Atrocity and Amnesia: The Political Novel Since 1945 and After the AvantGarde. Bill Brown, who teaches at the University of Chicago, has published work in Arizona Quarterly, Cultural Critique, and Critical Inquiry, among other journals; he is the author of Recreation and Representation in America, 1880–1950 (forthcoming). Debra A. Castillo is Associate Professor of Romance Studies and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She is author of The Translated World: A Postmodern Tour of Libraries in Literature and Talking Back: Strategies -847- for a Latin American Feminist Literary Criticism (forthcoming) ...»