Pervivencia del mundo clásico en la literatura

Although the three authors studied, Ana Maria Matute, Carmen Martin Gaite, and Esther Tusquets, are sophisticated intellectuals, they have chosen fairy tales and texts from other marginalized genres originally for female consumption (such as the novela rosa and the Hollywood women's picture) as the major intertexts in their novels for adults as well as in their fictions for children. Against the backdrop feminist theory and recent critical studies of fairy tales and children's literature, Solino studies the works of these authors as "gendered texts." Solino's book opens with a chapter that...

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).

This volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial...

Este libro demuestra la relevancia de la figura femenina en el teatro del dramaturgo inglés Edward Bond, a pesar de ser un campo de investigación totalmente olvidado para la crítica. Para Bond, el teatro presenta una clara función didáctica más que estética ya que transforma el escenario en un foro de discusión sobre la situación social. La visión panorámica de las mujeres de sus primeras obras persigue como objetivo principal dilucidar la evolución femenina como personaje dramático en el universo de un autor marcadamente político.