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By insisting that women should be equal partners, Pardo Bazán problematically adopted the patriarchal binarism that assigns women to Nature and men to Culture, but she also subverted it by denying its supplemental relationship. Her astute choice and manipulation of masculine cultural models (Realism, not Romanticism; prose, not poetry; Castilian language, not Galician) ultimately won her--despite fierce opposition--inclusion in the Spanish national canon. Furthermore, the study of her thorny relations with emerging Galician nationalism shows that her exclusion from "Galician literature" was...

La obra del grupo de escritores nucleado alrededor de la revista Orígenes (1944-1956) representa el mayor momento de la literatura cubana del siglo XX y equivale en importancia a la obra de los mexicanos de la revista Contemporáneos y a los argentinos de Sur. José Lezama Lima, Virgilio Piñera, Eliseo Diego, Fina García Marruz, Cintio Vitier son algunos de sus nombres. Al análisis de lo escrito por ellos, y al pronóstico de lo que serían en el futuro, dedicó María Zambrano su esclarecedor ensayo La Cuba secreta. Forjadores de obras espléndidas y disímiles, se encargaron también de ...

Lección magistral impartida por Pedro C. Cerrillo en el acto de inauguración del curso académico de la Universidad Española, presidido por SS.MM. los Reyes de España.

Gabriel García Márquez is considered one of the most significant authors in the Spanish language. Rising to prominence with One Hundred Years of Solitude, his fiction is widely read and studied throughout the world. This invaluable Guide gives a wide-ranging but in-depth survey of the global debate over García Márquez's fiction. It explores the major critical responses to his key works, devoting two whole chapters to One Hundred Years of Solitude. It also examines García Márquez's lesser-known short fiction, his place in the Boom, magical realism and his influence on other writers. Jay...