Estampas y Apologías

A group of thirty chronicles that Fabrizio Meja Madrid spun along thirteen years while strolling up and down the national territory, from the forest to the desert, from the mountains to the highlands, to end, like so many other Mexicans every year, crossing the northern frontier. New drugs, saints with beatified roosters, murderers of one night and of one life, communards with "machetes" and teachers surrounding the foreigner murdered in Oaxaca, a town of kidnappers and three missing towns, the television that presents circus phenomena, the fantasies of the national porn, the corpses of too...

La crítica siempre ha considerado «Espacio» como uno de los más grandes poemas de todos los tiempos. Este libro estudia por primera vez la variedad de componentes rítmicos que unidos a la visión cósmica del poema fijan su forma.

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...

La obra de Sedulio, poeta romano del s. v (fl. c. 425-450), apenas ha suscitado interés entre los estudiosos de la Edad Moderna y Contemporánea, siendo su edición más reciente la realizada por Iohannes Huemer en 1885. La producción literaria de Sedulio es muy reducida y es conocida sobre todo por su Carmen Paschale, poema en cinco libros (1753 versos en total), compuesto todo él en hexámetros, excepto el prólogo, que consta de ocho dísticos elegíacos. A lo largo del poema el autor describe y canta en un estilo altamente retórico los milagros divinos presentes en el Antiguo...