Brotherston, Gordon

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BROTHERSTON, Gordon

BROTHERSTON, Gordon. British, b. 1939. Genres: Literary criticism and history, Translations, Anthropology/Ethnology. Career: University of Essex, Dept. of Literature, Lecturer, 1965-68, Sr. Lecturer, 1968-73, Reader, 1973-78, Professor, 1978-. Latin American Series, Pergamon Press, Oxford, Ed., 1965-. Publications: Manuel Machado: A Revaluation, 1968; Spanish American Modernista Poets: A Critical Anthology, 1968; Origins and Presence of Latin American Poetry, 1976; The Emergence of the Latin American Novel, 1977; Image of the New World, 1979; A Key to the Mesoamerican Reckoning of Time, 1982; Voices of the First America, 1985; Aesop in Mexico, 1987; Book of the Fourth World, 1992; Painted Books of Mexico, 1995 Mexico, 1995. EDITOR: Jose Enrique Rodo: Ariel, 1967; (with M. Vargas Llosa) Seven Stories from Spanish America, 1968, 1973; (and trans. with E. Dorn) Our Word, 1968; (and co-trans. with E. Dorn) Cesar Vallejo: Selected Poems, 1976; (with P. Hulme) Borges: Ficciones, 1976.