Góngora's Soledades and the Problem of Modernity

Los cuatro textos de este volumen constituyen un hito en el pensamiento contemporáneo por tratarse de una de las primeras tomas de posición ante las tendencias de pesimismo cultural presentes en autores como T. S. Eliot ya a mediados del siglo XX. A partir de su concepto de «poscultura», Steiner formula una serie de réplicas de gran lucidez, belleza y atrevimiento, precisamente en un momento en que este pesimismo reaparece en todo su radicalismo y violencia. La cultura, nueva divinidad del siglo XX, había mostrado su impotencia ante la confianza puesta en ella al constatar que no pudo...

This work is a study of the "Galician Trilogy" written by Camilo Jose Cela, consisting of his novels "Mazurca para dos muertos" (1983), "La cruz de San Andres" (1994), and "Madera de boj" (1999).

Agus and his friends can t go on an adventure without running into trouble. This time, the evil Dr. Brot and his assistant Nap are provoking a war between fairies and dwarfs over an ancient gold coin! Will Hole the axe come to the rescue in time?"

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...