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"El mundo está lleno de letras: unas son redondas como rosquillas; a otras parece que un mosquito le revolotea sobre la cabeza; las hay llenas de ondas como las olas del mar, o presumidas y con peineta... Todos son sorprendetemente divertidas. Y ocultan misterios fascinantes"--Back cover.

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...

Antonio Perez, the brilliant but erratic secretary to Philip II of Spain, became in the years of his exile a political agent in the service of the Earl of Essex, arriving at the Court of Queen Elizabeth in 1593. On behalf of Essex, who valued him as a friend, a partner and a humanist scholar, he cast an intelligence network over Italy; and he made a striking, though dangerous, contribution to the Essex cult.

Herman Melville (1819-1891) no sólotiene asegurado un puesto de honor en la literatura norteamericana, sinoque ocupa uno de los lugares privilegiados en la historia de la literaturauniversal, como demuestra su actual prestigio y el intenso debate acercade su complejo mundo literario. Como ocurre con demasiada frecuencia, Melvilleno alcanzó la fama en vida: su novela más popular, MobyDick, publicada cuando el escritor contaba poco más de treintaaños, pasó casi inadvertida. La mayor parte de sus librostiene el mar como escenario, pero el genio de Melville trasciendeel simple relato...