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In this rhyming picture book with very little text, a dog steals a boy's teddy bear and the child chases after him. Along the way, he sees many bears, but he is looking for one special one in particular.

This trilingual volume examines the extent to which myths are affected by the crises of the 20th and 21st centuries. It brings together four theoretical studies which analyse both the crisis of structure – implying the distortion or disappearance of myth – and the crisis of concepts and terminology that currently threaten the study of mythology. The largest section of the volume focuses on the crises that have affected ancient, medieval and modern literary myths from a global perspective, taking into account psychology, ethics, politics and contemporary meta-literature. The final section...

"As much as in other countries, there is a bildungsroman novel in Spanish America like the ones of Güiraldes, Vargas Llosa, and Pacheco. However, less studied is the same genre of novel written by women. Examines growing pains and search for freedom in a patriarchal society in the works of Elena Poniatowska, Rosario Castellanos, Claribel Alegría, Rosario Ferré, and Beatriz Guido. Interesting contribution to the growing body of studies on these writers"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Al calor de la lucha por la independencia, los intelectuales hispanoamericanos asumieron en las primeras décadas del siglo XIX la responsabilidad de fomentar el sentimiento patriótico y de llevar a las nuevas repúblicas por el camino de la civilización. Consecuentes con las esperanzas depositadas en la literatura como primer paso para la educación de los pueblos, entendían que los poetas habían de preparar el camino a los filósofos y los políticos. El tiempo permitiría comprobar que ese compromiso podía prorrogarse indefinidamente, que la literatura estaba destinada a ser el...