Sobre la escritura. Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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 ...

Many of the fundamental concerns of Chicano and Mexican letters are dealt with by Leal, such as the meaning and origin of the myth of Aztlan, the problem of distinguishing Chicano literature from American and Mexican literature, the consideration of the influence of the Mexican Revolution novel on Chicano narrative, the description of the feminine archetypes of the Mexican Revolution novel on Chicano narrative, and a review of the North American as depicted in Mexican literature.

La idea central de este libro no es menos contundente que polémica: la crónica es lo mejor de la literatura mexicana. Sara Sefchovich encuentra en la crónica la clave para entender nuestra visión del país y de nosotros mismos y su expresión cultural. De acuerdo con la autora, "la narrativa, la poesía y el ensayo funcionaron como crónicas a lo largo de la historia de México", y ni el cine, ni la música ni la fotografía o la pintura misma se alejan de esta vocación por la inmediatez, por el relato a la vez fiel e inventado de la realidad, por la problemática reflexión sobre el yo...

"What do the statues of the world have to offer? The Great Sphinx of Giza, the Caryatids in Athens or the dragon of the Forbidden City in Beijing... are statues that have witnessed... the course of history. But what if these witnesses could talk? What would they say? In this exciting collection of stories, statues have their say. Statues of the world meet fiction and information across seven stories that contain universal themes such as freedom, fantasy or love. Each of the stories takes as inspiration a representative of world culture in the form of a statue, and this is both a literary...