Friedrich Schiller

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...

This study breaks new ground in García Márquez studies by focusing on the author's journalistic writings between 1948 and 1955. By using a combination of modern critical methods, including narratology, dialogism and transtextuality, this study shows how García Márquez' early journalism laid the foundations for his later fiction writing. This work provides an exhaustive, coherent and comprehensive analysis of a neglected area of the Colombian author's writing. This study shows that García Márquez is a bigeneric writer, a journalist-fiction writer, who constantly combines genres in his...

Más que una extraña singularidad atribuida al catolicismo, el Purgatorio –el "tercer estado", como lo llamaba Lutero− podría considerarse como una invariante existencial de lo humano, que se aparece siempre entre el dolor y el sentido de culpa que atan al pasado, y la esperanza que impulsa al futuro. Así lo consideró Dante Alighieri, quien lo imaginó como una montaña en la que la purificación se presenta como ascenso. Otros autores peruanos e hispanoamericanos, también. La teología cristiana y el análisis comparativo de las religiones aportan perspectivas novedosas al estudio...

Esta colección de estudios críticos se ha compilado con el propósito de revalorar al genial comediógrafo del siglo XVII, Luis Vélez de Guevara (1579-1644), y, posiblemente, restablecerlo como figura de importancia en la historia del teatro español.