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Bartolome Hidalgo (Montevideo, 1788 - Moron, Buenos Aires Province, 1822) is the first poet to have utilized the Spanish language to capture the qualities of gaucho speech His writings, comprising a series of lyrical, narrative and dialogic texts about current political concerns of the second and third decades of the 19th century in both margins of the Rio de la Plata, have been recognized by the most respected literary critics of the region -Sarmiento, Mitre, Leguizamon, Rojas, Falcao Espalter, Borges- as the initiation of this most original genre, and Hidalgo, consequently, the first...

An intriguing study of The Da Vinci Code looks at the content, themes, real-life historical background and characters, and revelations of the best-selling novel.

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...

¿Hay grandes libros para los más pequeños? Para Joëlle Turin, la respuesta es afirmativa. Ella ha identificado a los autores de literatura infantil que reconocen en su público una aguda inteligencia y ofrecen libros que incitan a pensar, soñar, preguntar y también conmoverse. En este estudio la autora analiza más de 100 álbumes de catálogo activo de Iberoamérica que considera fundamentales para acompañar a los niños en su crecimiento; son libros que ayudan a los niños a crecer al acercarlos a temas como el enojo, el afecto, el abandono, el juego, el miedo y la amistad.