Homenaje a Alfredo A. Roggiano

Esta compilacin rene ms de treinta artculos de distinguidos hispanistas de varios pases, todos ellos antiguos amigos y colegas de Alfredo A. Roggiano, a quien dedican sus colaboraciones en homenaje a la labor en beneficio del hispanismo que ha hecho este poeta, crtico y maestro, por ms de medio siglo. Como poeta, como crtico literario, como profesor, como investigador y como Director de la Revista Iberoamericana, ocupa un lugar nico y primordial entre las figuras actuales de la literatura y cultura iberoamericana. Por medio de su extensa labor creadora en los mbitos editoriales, crticos y docentes, ha jugado un papel de importancia fundamental en el desarrollo de los estudios iberoamericanos en los Estados Unidos durante casi siete lustros. ~ This compilation brings together more than thirty articles by distinguished Hispanists from various countries, all of them former friends and colleagues of Alfredo A. Roggiano, to whom they dedicate these works as a tribute to this poet, critic and teacher and his contribution to Hispanicism for more than half a century. Also as a literary critic, a professor, a researcher, and Director of the Revista Iberoamericana, Alfredo A. Roggiano occupies a unique and primordial place among the current figures of Ibero-American literature and culture. Through his extensive creative work in the editorial, critical, and educational arenas, he has played a fundamentally important role in the development of Ibero-American studies in the United States for nearly seven decades.