El duende especulativo sobre la vida civil

This book teaches about different modes of transportation using simple raised die-cut shapes on a left-hand page mirrored in the scooped-out forms of the right.

In this brilliant overview of parodic praxis in the Spanish-American novel during the years 1960-1985, Elzbieta SkPlodowska examines several aspects of parody: its role in the renovation of anachronistic forms of discourse (mock-epic) and the re-writing of the canon of the historical novel; its function in transgressing literary formulas (detective novel); its subversive quality in the counter-discourse of women writers; and the relation between parody, satire, irony, humor, and metafiction. This sound analysis of some twenty-five novels, carefully illustrated by works little treated in...

This volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial...

Mujeres, Escritoras y Personajes Femeninos: ayer, hoy y mañana pretende crear un foro de debate en el que tengan cabida artículos de especialistas de referencia en el ámbito internacional y de personal investigador de las áreas de los estudios literarios, históricos o filosóficos, que sean el germen de la creación de nuevas Redes Internacionales de cooperación científico-técnica y de innovación, que sean posibles semilleros de proyectos internacionales, particularmente europeos, en el entorno de la Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. La publicación se enmarca dentro de ...