El extraordinario viaje de Prudence

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...

La obra de Jose Martí ha recibido en las últimas décadas numerosos acercamientos críticos desde puntos de vista muy diferentes, ya que nos encontramos ante el escritor cubano más cimpleto de todos los tiempos y el héroe indiscutible de la independencia de la Isla. Sin embargo, estos textos suelen a menudo analizar facetas muy conocidas de su personalidad o de su obra, que con frecuencia se convierten en lugares comunes relacionado con los temas de su poesía, su adscripción o no al modernismo hispanoamericano, sus aspiraciones revolucionarias o si idealismo práctico

"Cuervo es negro. Negro como el carbón. Tan negro que da miedo. Pero, ahora, Cuervo tiene planes."--Publisher's description.

Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this comparative study of a selection of The Arabian Nights stories in a cross-cultural context, brings together a number of disciplines and subject areas to examine the workings of narrative. It predominantly focuses on the ways in which the Arabian Nights have transformed as its stories have travelled across historical eras, cultures, genres and media. Departing from the familiar approaches of influence and textual studies, this book locates its central inquiry in the theoretical questions surrounding the workings of ideology, genre and genre ideology ...