Hemingway en la crítica y en la ficción de la España de postguerra

Unique in coverage, this comprehensive one-volume anthology of Latin American literature, from pre-Columbian times to the present, covers not only the authors accepted within the literary canon, but innovative contemporary voices that are now breaking the ethnocentric mold.

<I>Escritura femenina y discurso autobiografico analiza en la novela espanola mas reciente la tendencia a adoptar el modo autobiografico como forma privilegiada para ilustrar el proceso de creacion del discurso femenino. La originalidad de este estudio reside en agrupar bajo el mismo epigrafe de -ecritura femenina- tres novelas de -firma masculina-: <I>Extramuros de Jesus Fernandez Santos, <I>Memoria de Noa de Alfredo Conde y <I>La soledad era esto de Juan Jose Millas, junto a tres de -firma femenina-: <I>La funcion Delta de Rosa Montero, <I>Urraca de Lourdes Ortiz e <I>Historia ...

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 is the first collection of criticism on Mario Benedetti's work published in Spanish covering his literary works, the major themes of his writing, cinematic interpretations of his works, and his political commitments.