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Through a study of literature, the social and cultural issues that help form the identity of a people can be revealed and examined. The ten essays in Temas del comercio y la economía en la narrativa hispana investigate the relation between the Hispanic narrative and the economic and commercial concerns of Spanish-speaking peoples around the world from a variety of historical periods. Balancing a study of writers' perspectives on current economic conditions with a look at literary versions of economic events, this anthology provides a window into Hispanic culture for both the student of...

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...

Dios no ha muerto: contra todos los pronósticos que auguraban la secularización completa de las sociedades desarrolladas, Occidente vive una nueva evolución de la espiritualidad. Filósofo y sociólogo de las religiones, Frédéric Lenoir examina el devenir de la religión desde los últimos siglos de la modernidad occidental hasta el periodo actual de globalización e individualismo, caracterizado por la libertad de elección, el deseo de plenitud personal, la búsqueda de sentido y estilos de vida propios, el nomadismo espiritual, el primado de la subjetividad. Paradójicamente, nuestra...

El autor trata de asimilar las conclusiones de sus predecesores en el análisis crítico de esta obra, para llegar a una edición más depurada y acorde al texto original.