La distorsión de la lógica y la polifonía en la prosa de Quevedo

An anthology of short stories from the Caribbean region that is unique in its trilingual nature; all of the stories appear in English, French and Spanish. The anthology includes stories from Guadeloupe (Gisele Pineau), Trinidad ( Shani Mootoo), Haiti (Yanick Lahens), Jamaica (Oliver Senior), Puerto Rico (Carmen Lugo Filippi ) and Cuba (Mirta Yanez).

Este volumen ofrece la edición de dos novelas cortas del mexicano José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi. En estas obras el autor muestra registros muy distintos en el modo de novelar: la primera es una narración dialogada de tono romántico que tiene como referente último las Noches lúgubres de José Cadalso. Por su parte, la segunda posee una clara intención satírica y se enmarca en el molde picaresco-educativo que ya había utilizado el Pensador mexicano en su primera novela.

This study uses a novel by Guatemalan writer Asturias, winner of the 1967 Nobel prize, to analyze the construction of Guatemalan identity at the end of the 1940s and to consider the factors involved in representing a Third World country.

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 ...