La historia interna del Atlas Lingüístico de la Península Ibérica (ALPI)

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...

LA MANO QUE ESCRIBE: Literatura, arte y pensamiento FIRST NATIONAL ESSAY AWARD 2008 OF THE PEN CLUB OF PUERTO RICO BY: ZOÉ JIMÉNEZ CORRETJER THE HAND THAT WRITES: Literature, Art and Thought This collection of essays include studies from medieval to contemporary literature in Spain and the Americas. Topics are focused in a philosophical, symbolical, and anthropological perspectives. Some essays cover the history of women philosophers, language and linguistics, sephardic studies, aesthetics, medieval misticism, and feminism... The title of the book was inspired by the special object named...

Entre 1915 Y 1930 un grupo de jóvenes lingüistas y poetas rusos, ligado a los movimientos artísticos de vanguardia, revolucionó el campo de los estudios literarios. Ese laboratorio de experimentación crítica, que ha tenido vastas influencias en el desarrollo estructuralista posterior, modificó el modo de analizar las obras: desde entonces, el sentido de un relato o un poema no emana del proyecto biográfico o intelectual de su autor ni de la tradición literaria, sino de la construcción misma de ese texto, de las decisiones estilísticas y la organización interna que definen su...

A short story collection by one of the most highly acclaimed short story writers in literary history, this book contains five horror stories that will inspire both fear and wonder in the hearts and minds of readers. Guy de Maupassant’s beautiful language and intense narrative pace, when combined with his powerful imagination, masterfully blend terror and fantasy to create page-turning prose. Included in this collection are the short stories “Fear,” “Beside Schopenhauer's Corpse,” and “Who Knows?” Una colección de cuentos por uno de los más aclamados escritores de cuentos de la ...