En el umbral de Antígona

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 letter-writing in Renaissance Spain. The subject of this book is the art of letter-writing in the Renaissance period, which, particularly in the case of Spain, has been unjustly neglected. The first part examines two major sixteenth-century treatises on letter-writing, Erasmus's Opus de conscribendis epistolis (1522) and Juan Luis Vives's De conscribendis epistolis(1536), concluding that the two were composed independently, rather than one being derived from the other. The author goes on to look at two important collections of letters, Fray Antonio de Guevara's Epístolas...

Mamá Muu es una vaca muy especial. Sí, comer hierba está bien, pero ella también quiere aprender a trepar, montar en bicicleta, patinar, construir una casa en un árbol. Y, sobre todo, quiere aprender a leer. Cuervo, su mejor amigo, piensa, como tú, que es muy extraño que una vaca no se dé cuenta de que es una vaca, y de que las vacas no leen, ni patinan, ni se tiran por el tobogán. Pero no hay vaca más cabezota que Mamá Muu y, en esta ocasión, gracias a su amiga Lina, descubrirá los secretos maravillosos que hay en la biblioteca.

Estudios sobre la literatura cubana del exilio: poes a, natrativa, dramaturgia y ensayo, escritos por ngel Cuadra, Manuel C. D az, Jos Antonio Albertini, Mat as Montes Huidobro, Elio Alba Buffill. Edici n de Amelia del Castillo.