El reino en peligro

"Yasmin era una princesa que vivía con sus padres en un castillo. Pero un día ellos tuvieron que salir de viaje y se quedó sola. Yasmin descubrió una sala secreta del castillo y conoció a un gran mago"--Page 4 of cover.

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...

A study of the relationship betwen court festivity and theatre in 16c Spain. Dr Ferrer Valls studies the relationship between court festivity and theatre in the sixteenth century, placing special emphasis on staging. She argues that throughout the reign of Philip II court spectacle perpetuates the complicated staging of traditional performances, but with greater emphasis on their dramatic aspects and on the use of music and song. In the first two decades of the seventeenth century, and above all in specific plays by Lope de Vega, court spectacles come to reflect also the influence of Italian...

Este libro recoge las actas del primer encuentro del programa « MISSIVA – Cartas de mujeres en la Europa medieval (España, Francia, Italia, Portugal, siglos VIII-XV) » en el marco de los programas plurianuales de la École des Hautes Études Hispaniques et Ibériques – Casa de Velázquez (Madrid). Las contribuciones reunidas en este volumen, dedicadas a la correspondencia entre mujeres y la emergencia de lo que se podría considerar como verdaderas cadenas de mediación, ofrecen una reflexión sobre el interés de la materia epistolar para reconstruir la historia de las mujeres....