El ornato burlesco en Quevedo

Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this comparative study of a selection of The Arabian Nights stories in a cross-cultural context, brings together a number of disciplines and subject areas to examine the workings of narrative. It predominantly focuses on the ways in which the Arabian Nights have transformed as its stories have travelled across historical eras, cultures, genres and media. Departing from the familiar approaches of influence and textual studies, this book locates its central inquiry in the theoretical questions surrounding the workings of ideology, genre and genre ideology ...

This study uses a novel by Guatemalan writer Asturias, winner of the 1967 Nobel prize, to analyze the construction of Guatemalan identity at the end of the 1940s and to consider the factors involved in representing a Third World country.

Ganador del Premio Cervantes 2017. Sergio Ramírez revive en Juan de Juanes años de vida y de literatura, en los que escritores, editores, agentes literarios y por supuesto nosotros, sus lectores, descubrimos el Juan de Juanes total que llevamos dentro. Del ganador del Premio Alfaguara de Novela y autor de Margarita, está linda la mar, Sergio Ramírez. Esta obra emprende una defensa apasionada de la escritura, la literatura, la memoria y la amistad. Es un compendio de recuerdos, lecturas, anécdotas, hechos memorables. La memoria es también una suerte de homenaje a los amigos que nos han...

Underrecognized in her own lifetime, the works of Maria Luisa Bombal have been increasingly read and understood as keys to the development of feminist styles, thematics, and thought. This volume includes a collection of scholarly analyses of her creative production, a contextualization of her work and its significance within Latin American letters and feminist literature, and a comprehensive bibliography of both primary and secondary texts.