Sobre la escritura. Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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 obra que aquí se presenta se compone de una edición filológica del sumario historiográfico "Atalaya de las corónicas" (1443), compuesto por Alfonso Martínez de Toledo, junto a una introducción que incluye el contexto histórico, literario y lingüístico en que se gestó la crónica. Ponemos así, por primera vez, a disposición de los investigadores y del público lector interesado la primera edición crítica completa de un texto fundamental para comprender la concepción de la escritura historiográfica cuatrocentista.

Mariana er en lille fransk hertuginde, som under 2. verdenskrig må forlade sin trygge tilværelse og flygte sammen med andre familiemedlemmer til Mexico. Da faderen slutter sig til dem efter krigen, er det ikke udelukkende idyl

One of the most intellectually and emotionally engaging of the Spanish Golden Age (seventeenth century) plays, as well as the most controversial. Taking place during the reign of King Pedro of Castile (1350¡1369), it is one of the spectacular 'honour dramas', in which the main characters confront compelling yet conflicting imperatives.