Hacia una novelística puertorriqueña descolonizada

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...

"Jesus Torrecilla explores the question of how societies considered to be marginal perceive their relationship with those that are hegemonic. Focusing on the works of Mariano Jose de Larra, Benito Perez Galdos, and Miguel de Unamuno, he argues that the inner tension created between the foreign models and the writers' own literary tradition explains two of the most important characteristics of Spanish literature: its belatedness with respect to European trends and, more generally, its traditionalism, which, says Torrecilla, is a reaction not against modernity as such but against modernity as a ...

La literatura tiene un problema de identidad: todos los lectores creemos saber qué es pero nadie la sabe definir con precisión. Este volumen propone abrir nuevos debates en torno a la lectura y a la literatura basados en la exploración de estos factores.

Hadas, princesas, magos, caballeros, bosques encantados, animales mágicos... Este precioso libro, lleno de simpáticas ilustraciones, contiene un montón de cuentos, para que cada día puedas soñar con una fantástica historia. Relatos clásicos, conocidos por