Cuauhtli y el Niño Poeta

A través de un diálogo crítico en el que se entrecruzan diversas disciplinas y la crítica previa, este estudio invita al lector a profundizar en los modos como la literatura preserva instancias de la memoria colectiva y contribuye a que no se olviden situaciones que es preciso reconocer y continuar evaluando.

This volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial...

El libro surge como una explicación certera de cómo y por qué se lee, partiendo de ennumerables preguntas que neurólogos, tipógrafos y editores llevan resolviendo de modo individual. El autor analiza la aportación de los diseñadores gráficos, tipógrafos y diseñadores de letras al conocimiento de la lectura, un aspecto pragmático, procedente del trato íntimo con las formas de la letra y sus múltiples aplicaciones.

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...