José Saramago

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 ...

This book provides an overview of the main routes and trends that the Mexican theater journeyed in the twentieth century. It specially seeks to link the texts, the ideas about the scene, the way of acting, the sense of direction and the public of that time. Therefore, its about approaching through different points of view to an integrated perspective of the theatrical phenomenon in Mexico over a century staging, text and society.

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...

Zoe and her band hit the Big Apple. Will they be able to prevent a crazy scheme to construct apartment buildings inside the iconic Central Park? For this adventure, they will need all the help they can get!