Antonio Cornejo Polar

Antonio Cornejo Polar ( born December 23, 1936 in Arequipa, † 18 May 1997 Lima) was a Peruvian professor and literary critic.

Life

Cornejo Polar PhD from the Universidad Nacional de San Agustín state in Arequipa and was a professor there. From 1966 taught at the State University of San Marcos in Lima and as a guest professor at the Universities of Pittsburgh / USA and Berkeley / USA.

Cornejo Polar is considered an important Latin American literary and cultural critic. He was the founder and editor of the journal Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana, the treated cultural and ideological issues.

Cornejo Polar was married to Cristina Soto, who led the publisher Latinoamericana Editores and worked on the magazine with him. The two had four children ( Ursula, Alvaro, Gonzalo, Rafael ).

Work

• Discurso en loor de la poesía: estudio y edición. (Lima. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos 1964)
• Los Universos narrativos de José María Arguedas. ( Buenos Aires: Losada, 1974. )
• La novela peruana: siete estudios (Lima: Horizonte 1977. )
• Literatura y sociedad en el Perú: la novela indigenista. (Lima: Lasontay 1980. )
• La cultura nacional, problema y posibilidad. (Lima: Lluvia 1981. )
• Sobre literatura y crítica latino americanas. (Caracas. Universidad Central de Venezuela 1982)
• Vigencia y José María Arguedas de universalidad. (Lima: Horizonte 1984. )
• La formación de la tradición literaria en el Perú. (Lima: CEP 1989. )
• The multiple voices of Latin American literature. ( Berkeley:. University of California 1994)
• Escribir en el aire. Ensayo sobre la heterogeneidad socio - cultural en las literaturas Andinas. (Lima: Editorial Horizonte 1994. )
• Mestizaje e hibridez: los riesgos de las metáforas. (La Paz. Universidad Mayor de San Andrés 1997)

Credentials

• Gwen Kirkpatrick, Francine Masiello and Julio Ramos Antonio Cornejo - Polar, Spanish and Portuguese: Berkeley. University of California, 1997, pp. 43-45.