La Española - Isla de Encuentros / Hispaniola - Island of Encounters

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...

Un diálogo con los habitantes del gran sueño melancólico del siglo XX Dieciséis ensayos narrativos escritos con la prosa que caracteriza a Alberto Ruy Sánchez, retoman a una protagonista, la melancolía, que se pronuncia por el yo y reivindica el cuerpo. Los ensayos se dividen en tres secciones. En la primera, "Memorias de catedrales góticas", se comenta la obra y vida de escritores poseídos por fuerzas que los arrebatan y cuyo torbellino vital es visible en su obra: Rilke, Alberto Savinio, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italo Calvino, Marguerite Yourcenar, Samuel Beckett, Max Frisch y Victor...

En la casa de los Murnó hay un fantasma. Mary lo ha descubierto y está segura de que es inofensivo: ¿será eso posible? La pequeña se enfrentará a las opiniones negativas de sus padres y amigos sobre estos seres, y peor aún, a Abraham Estaca, un despiadado cazafantasmas. Mary Murnó demostrará que no se debe juzgar a alguien sin siquiera conocerlo, incluso si se trata de un fantasma. Los pequeños entenderán que no debe juzgarse a los demás sin conocerlos.