Espacios y tiempos de lo fantástico

Volumen que reúne una serie de ensayos, en los que el autor aplica el modelo sociológico -con un lenguaje claro y fácil de entender- al análisis de la cambiante coyuntura política de nuestro tiempo. ¿Qué ideas e ideologías conducen el debate público, los proyectos del gobierno o a la casi inexistente oposición? ¿Cuáles representaciones del mundo y concepciones del poder y el desarrollo compiten dentro de la Nueva Mayoría? ¿Qué piensan las élites y cuáles son los relatos que contribuyen a crear su identidad? ¿Qué papel juegan las encuestas en la construcción de la opinión...

A study of the relationship betwen court festivity and theatre in 16c Spain. Dr Ferrer Valls studies the relationship between court festivity and theatre in the sixteenth century, placing special emphasis on staging. She argues that throughout the reign of Philip II court spectacle perpetuates the complicated staging of traditional performances, but with greater emphasis on their dramatic aspects and on the use of music and song. In the first two decades of the seventeenth century, and above all in specific plays by Lope de Vega, court spectacles come to reflect also the influence of Italian...

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...

Brings together 35 selections by both well-known and relatively unknown authors from all the major Latina communities in the United States. Includes selections that represent the major lifestyles or issues confronting Latinas today, including sexual and personal oppression, family relations, traditional and new ways of exploring the female identity and relationships with men.