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El reducido espacio de estos esquemas nos ha obligado a resumir casi tres siglos de actividad literaria en un apretado volumen.

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The reduced space of these outlines has obligated us to summarize almost three centuries of literary activity in one tight volume.

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En lengua iglesa existen muchas y exhaustivas historias de la literatura americana, encaradas desde diversos puntos de vista, sin excluir el psicoanalitico.

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Many exhaustive histories of American literature exist in the English language, as seen from diverse points of view, without excluding the psychoanalytic [approach].

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Abundan tambien las que quieren supeditar la literature a la sociologia.

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There also abound those who want to subordinate literature to [the field of] sociology.

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Tal criterio no ha sido el nuestro; para nosotros, lo esencial es lo estetico.

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Such criterion has not been ours; for us, the essential thing is the aesthetic.

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En los Estados Unidos, como en Inglaterra, los grupos y los cenaculos literarios son menos importantes que el individuo.

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In the United States, as well as in England, the groups and the literary cenacles [or circles] are less important than the individual.

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Las obras surgen como fruto natural de vidas diversas.

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The works emerge as natural consequences of diverse lives.

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Hemos preferido pues dejarnos guiar por la atraccion que ejercieron sobre nosotros las obras mismas.

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We have prefered then to allow ourselves to be guided by the attraction [appeal or charm] that the same works exerted [had] on us.

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Desde luego, la historia de una literature no puede prescindir de la historia del pais que la ha producido.

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Therefore, a literary history cannot dispense with the history of the country that produced it.

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Hemos incluido, por lo tanto, ciertas referencias indispensables.

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We have therefore included certain [some] indispensible references.

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Acaso no es inutil señalar que este compendio abarca temas que no se encontraran en volumenes mas extensos.

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Perhaps it is not useless to point out that this compendium embraces topics [subjects] that are not found in more extensive volumes.

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Por ejemplo, el genero policial, la Science-Fiction, los relatos del Oeste y la singular poesia de los pieles rojas.

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For example, the detective genre, science fiction, Western stories, and the singular [unique] poetry of the red skins [Native Americans].

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Nuestra finalidad fundamental ha sido estimular el conocimiento de la evolucion literaria de una nacion que forjo la primera constitucion democratica de los tiempos modernos.

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Our fundamental purpose has been to stimulate [increase] knowledge of the literary evolution of a nation that forged the first democratic constitution of modern times.

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