El cuento folclórico en la literatura y en la tradición oral

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...

Un diálogo con los habitantes del gran sueño melancólico del siglo XX Dieciséis ensayos narrativos escritos con la prosa que caracteriza a Alberto Ruy Sánchez, retoman a una protagonista, la melancolía, que se pronuncia por el yo y reivindica el cuerpo. Los ensayos se dividen en tres secciones. En la primera, "Memorias de catedrales góticas", se comenta la obra y vida de escritores poseídos por fuerzas que los arrebatan y cuyo torbellino vital es visible en su obra: Rilke, Alberto Savinio, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italo Calvino, Marguerite Yourcenar, Samuel Beckett, Max Frisch y Victor...

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 prestigioso filólogo Francisco López Estrada se ocupa de la obra de Cristobal de Monroy y Silva, hidalgo y escritor alcalareño del siglo XVII, que cultivó tanto la poesía como la prosa y el teatro. El autor aborda el estudio global del escritor, llevando a la par a cabo un detenido análisis de su particular versión de Fuente Ovejuna.