Arturo Torres Rioseco
Arturo Torres Rioseco (born October 17, 1897 in Chile , † November 3, 1971 in California ) was an American Romanist , Hispanicist and poet of Chilean origin.
life and work
Torres studied in Santiago de Chile and passed the state examination in 1918. He went to New York and taught at Williams College from 1920 to 1921 . From 1921 to 1922 he was (as the successor to Pedro Henríquez Ureña ) instructor at the University of Minnesota , from 1925 Associate Professor at the University of Texas , from 1928 in the same position at the University of California at Berkeley . In 1931 he received his doctorate from the University of Minnesota with the work Rubén Darío, casticismo y americanismo. Estudio precedido de la biografía del poeta (Cambridge, Mass./London 1931). In 1936 he became full professor of Spanish at Berkeley, was director of the institute from 1956 to 1960 and last held the chair for Latin American literature. For decades he has been a visiting professor at home and abroad.
Torres Rioseco's circle of friends included José Vasconcelos , Antonio Caso , Gabriela Mistral , Carlos Pellicer (1897–1977), Jaime Torres Bodet and Salvador Novo (1904–1974).
Other works
- Precursores del modernismo. Estudios críticos y antología, Madrid 1925, Barcelona / New York 1963
- Essentials of Spanish, Garden City 1927, 1932
- (with Eugene F. Parker) An intermediate Spanish grammar and composition, Boston / New York 1928
- (Ed.) Chilean short stories, New York 1929
- (with Lesley Byrd Simpson ) El libro de buen humor, New York 1932
- Ausencia, Santiago de Chile 1932
- Bibliografía de la novela mejicana, Cambridge, Mass. 1933
- (with Ralph E. Warner) Bibliografía de la poesía mexicana, Cambridge, Mass. 1934
- (with Raul Silva Castro) Ensayo de bibliografía de la literatura chilena, Cambridge, Mass. 1935
- (with Edwin Seth Morby) Cartilla mejicana, New York 1938
- Novelistas contemporáneos de América, Santiago de Chile 1939
- La novela en la América hispana, Berkeley 1939
- Antología de la literatura hispanoamericana, New York 1941
- Grandes Novelistas de la América Hispana, 2 vols., Berkeley 1941-1943, 1949
- The epic of Latin American literature, New York / London 1942, 1946, Berkeley 1967 (Portuguese: Expressão literária do Novo Mundo, Rio de Janeiro 1945; Chinese 1978)
- (with Edwin B. Place) Contemporary Spanish grammar, New York 1943
- Vida y poesía de Rubén Darío, Buenos Aires 1944
- (Ed. With Luis Monguió ) Lector hispanoamericano, Boston 1944
- La gran literatura iberoamericana, Buenos Aires 1945; 1960 ud T. Nueva historia de la gran literatura iberoamericana; 1965 ud T. Historia de la literatura iberoamericana
- New World literature. Tradition and revolt in Latin America, Berkeley 1949, Westport 1983
- (Ed.) Rubén Darío, Antología poética, Berkeley 1949
- (Ed.) Antología de poetas precursores del modernismo, Washington 1949
- Ensayos sobre literatura latinoamericana, 2 vols., Berkeley 1953, Mexico 1958
- El frijolito saltón, Boston 1953
- Cautiverio, Mexico 1955
- Breve historia de la literatura chilena, Mexico 1956
- Madurez de la muerte, Valencia 1959
- Aventura mexicana, New York 1960
- Gabriela Mistral. Una profunda amistad. Un dulce recuerdo, Valencia 1962
- Aspects of Spanish American literature, Seattle 1963
- (Ed.) Short stories of Latin America, New York 1963
- Panorama de la literatura iberoamericana, Santiago de Chile 1964
- La hebra en la aguja, Mexico 1965
- Antología general, Mexico 1969
literature
- Manuel Olguín, Categorías críticas de Arturo Torres Ríoseco, in: Revista Iberoamericana 1947
- Reyes Carbonell: Poetas iberoamericanos: Torres Rioseco, Madrid 1961, pp. 29-50
- Arturo Torres Rioseco, Autobiografía, Madrid 1963
- Escudero-Castedo [i. e. Alfonso M. Escudero y Elena Castedo]: Arturo Torres Rioseco, in: Atenea 43, 1966, 145-159
- Literary and cultural journeys. Selected letters to Arturo Torres-Rioseco, ed. by Carlota Caulfield and Miguel Angel Zapata, Oakland 1995
- Alfredo Roggiano: Homenaje a Arturo Torres Rioseco (1897-1971), in: Revista Iberoamericana 38, 1972, and 68, 2002, pp. 663-73
Web links
- http://www.pitt.edu/~hispan/iili/rioseco.html (with picture)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Torres Rioseco, Arturo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Torres-Rioseco, Arturo; Torres, Arturo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Romance philologist and Hispanist of Chilean descent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 17, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chile |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd November 1971 |
| Place of death | California |