Razón del Mirlo

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...

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 idea central de este libro no es menos contundente que polémica: la crónica es lo mejor de la literatura mexicana. Sara Sefchovich encuentra en la crónica la clave para entender nuestra visión del país y de nosotros mismos y su expresión cultural. De acuerdo con la autora, "la narrativa, la poesía y el ensayo funcionaron como crónicas a lo largo de la historia de México", y ni el cine, ni la música ni la fotografía o la pintura misma se alejan de esta vocación por la inmediatez, por el relato a la vez fiel e inventado de la realidad, por la problemática reflexión sobre el yo...

Catalogue, with full introduction, of theatrical performances in Badajoz in the latter part of the nineteenth century.