Razón del Mirlo

Text in Spanish. El presente libro aborda por primera vez de manera conjunta un grupo de comedias de Lope de Vega cuyos rasgos comunes permiten concebirlas como eslabones teatrales del género bizantino. Así, no solo se estudian los principales temas y motivos que las emparentan con esa tradición, sino que se propone un minucioso recorrido histórico por los muy diversos modelos que inspiraron a Lope, sin descuidar no obstante el importante papel que estas comedias desempeñaron en el desarrollo del género bizantino en el Siglo de Oro.

Biography and appreciation of literary contributions of women authors by other women, with brief biographical information included on them also. Included are Magda Szabó, Anne Waldman, Gisela Kozak Rovero, Gordana Kuić, Nélida Piñón, Margaret Atwood, Sofia Coppola, Doris Lessing, A. S. Byatt, Sujata Bhatt, Assia Djebar, Amélie Nothomb, Zadie Smith, Wisława Szymborska, and Anne Tyler.

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 series of short stories, each one incorporates an individual plot within the fictional genre. Jellyfish Scars pulls the strings of the heart, while Healing Water leaves a lifetime worth of mystery. Lastly, The Comare incorporates the unnerving, with an Italian edge.