Juegos de seducción y traición

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...

This collection of essays presents views on Don Quijote by noted Latin American philosophers, historians, sociologists, poets, and novelists. It intends to make the student of Hispanic culture aware of the profound love and admiration that Hispanic America has always demonstrated toward Cervantes and his masterpiece. Until now, the contributions of Latin American intellectuals to Cervantine studies have largely been ignored in publications in the United States. Written in Spanish, this text will be useful to the student and scholar of Hispanic literature and Latin American Studies.

Propiciada por la amistad e impulsada por las copas de vino, la charla entre los invitados trata del amor y la amistad y otros temas en el marco del banquete helénico. El nombre de simposio se aplica precisamente al animado intercambio de discursos e ideas entre los bebedores, filósofos y poetas y, más tarde, entre eruditos parlanchines. Este libro, tras una breve introducción a los rasgos del banquete más clásico, pasa revista y comenta los cinco Simposios conservados en la literatura griega, desde el inolvidable diálogo de Platón al inagotable chismorreo de Ateneo, pasando por las...

Veinte especialistas europeos ponen al día la discusión sobre la producción fílmica española desde los años noventa en adelante, resaltando las relaciones intermediales entre cine, literatura, artes visuales y pintura.