Shakespeare en la imaginación contemporánea. Revisiones y reescrituras de su obra

In this brilliant overview of parodic praxis in the Spanish-American novel during the years 1960-1985, Elzbieta SkPlodowska examines several aspects of parody: its role in the renovation of anachronistic forms of discourse (mock-epic) and the re-writing of the canon of the historical novel; its function in transgressing literary formulas (detective novel); its subversive quality in the counter-discourse of women writers; and the relation between parody, satire, irony, humor, and metafiction. This sound analysis of some twenty-five novels, carefully illustrated by works little treated in...

La extraordinaria abundancia cultural del periodo contemporáneo, de manera especial la riqueza en número y calidad de la creación literaria en nuestra lengua, hace inabordable su estudio completo y pormenorizado, y obliga a concentrarlo en algunos de sus representantes más señalados, que no sólo ofrezcan la máxima excelencia creadora por sí mismos, sino que sean especialmente significativos para el conocimiento del desarrollo de las diversas corrientes estéticas en los distintos géneros, poesía, narrativa y teatro a lo largo del siglo XX y lo que llevamos del XXI. Frente a lo que...

This is the story of a fire-breathing dragon that is captured by the concerned citizens of a small, isolated country. After refusing to join the army, the peace-loving dragon is put in a cage. He soon escapes and proves to all that dragons and humans can get along if they are willing to put in a little effort to understand each other.

Inspector Bismark Pacheco, the most respected man in Costa Rica, would rather practice playing his tuba, but he is called to the mountain resort of Monteverde to investigate an armed robbery of a group of tourists, and Pacheco soon finds himself pitted against a group of clever professional criminals.