Caballeros andantes españoles

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...

Original estudio que aborda el romance no como un género de oral, sino como un conjunto dinámico y variable de textos que evolucionan y se modifican durante su transmisión impresa.

Este trabajo plantea un estudio sistemático de tres de las últimas obras de Fernando Aramburu vinculadas por uno de los temas que desde Cervantes preocupan al novelista: la creación literaria. En nuestro caso percibimos dicha inquietud en dos contextos relacionados con el oficio de escritor y diferenciados por su naturaleza factual o ficcional: contamos con manifestaciones escritas documentadas –los ensayos incluidos en Las letras entornadas (2015)–, a la vez que asistimos a la ficcionalización del hecho creador en el seno de la novela –Viaje con Clara por Alemania (2010) y Años...

Propuestas para (re)construir una nación explores how Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851–1921) imagines and engenders the Spanish nation in her theatrical production staged and/or published between 1898 and 1909. In the aftermath of Spain’s colonial losses, when Spain’s male authors, in a growing mood of collective introspection, directed their attention to the homeland, Pardo Bazán generated a series of theatrical proposals to revitalize the nation. In her plays, she manifests her ideas about Spain’s fin de siècle crisis, reflects on Spain’s place in the international arena (emphasizing...