El ruido de las nueces

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...

... Y las palabras cervantinas todavía guardan secretos que revelar. Son, al mismo tiempo, las palabras demiúrgicas del primer capítulo del libro –en el que el Quijote se nombra a sí mismo, nombra a su caballo y a su dama como en un Génesis para darse y darles existencia literaria– y son las palabras de Foucault, frágil y único instrumento del que el hombre dispone cuando se apresta a conocer el mundo fenoménico. En la modernidad, el hombre de ciencias, es decir, el que desea conocer, sabe bien que para asumir la realidad que le rodea, y de tal forma conocerla, es necesario pasar...

An examination of the form and significance of the 56 short narratives of Ramon Gomez de la Serna, based on a review of his own theoretical views on narrative, derived from his essays, prologues and vignettes, related in turn to theories of the modern novella developed by Gillespie et al.

There is a ghost in the girls' bathroom at school! It's the coolest thing that has ever happened there until the teachers find out. Will Ivy and Bean find a way to get the ghost out of the bathroom? Don't put anything past these two friends.