Katherine Anne Porter y la revolución mexicana: de la fascinación al desencanto

This study breaks new ground in García Márquez studies by focusing on the author's journalistic writings between 1948 and 1955. By using a combination of modern critical methods, including narratology, dialogism and transtextuality, this study shows how García Márquez' early journalism laid the foundations for his later fiction writing. This work provides an exhaustive, coherent and comprehensive analysis of a neglected area of the Colombian author's writing. This study shows that García Márquez is a bigeneric writer, a journalist-fiction writer, who constantly combines genres in his...

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...

Los bebés animales son muy diferentes, pero a todos les gusta dar siempre un beso a su madre antes de ir a dormir.

Los dos versos que cierran el soneto XVIII de William Shakespeare, y que ilustran la portada: «En tanto un ser aliente, o unos ojos miren / Esto estará vivo y te dará a ti vida», expresan poética y rotundamente el misterioso poder de la creación literaria, la suya propia en este caso. Su aspiración a la inmortalidad y su ambición universal no se han reducido al efecto y consiguiente enriquecimiento vital que su obra haya podido producir durante siglos en el lector o el espectador de su teatro. Sus textos han rebasado la intimidad del diálogo interpersonal para saltar a la arena del...