En el corazón

The textual and linguistic emphasis on the maternal body in the narrative fiction of Diamela Eltit is fundamental to understanding the critical challenge posed by her work in the Chilean context.

The author of short stories, novels and essays, Benítez Rojo is an atypical intellectual in the panorama of Cuban exile because he offers an original perspective of the past, present and future conflicts of this troubled and complex area. This literary biography tells of his journey from his emergence in the Cuban intellectual world in 1967 to his death in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2005.

Este libro estudia el género de las adivinanzas desde dos miradas –la española y la mexicana– representaciones de dos tradiciones hispánicas, mostrando lo que las acerca y lo que las aleja, las semejanzas y las diferencias, en sus variantes, en su temática, en su léxico, en su estilo, en su métrica o en su estructura. Estas dos tradiciones se han armonizado a través de los siglos, como testimonio de un encuentro que ha resultado afortunado y que es muestra de la riqueza y versatilidad de un patrimonio cultural, más allá de los límites temporales y espaciales. Si en España es...

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 ...