TEORÍA E HISTORIA DE LA PRODUCCIÓN IDEOLÓGICA

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...

Ofelia and Amoke appear to be complete opposites. The only things they have in common are an elderly, eccentric author named Virginia Wonnacott, the Hiraeth Association, and the feeling that something is missing from their lives. When Virginia offers Ofelia a job as her personal assistant, the lives of the two girls merge. Through conversations, used books, letters, and early morning Whatsapp messages, the girls discover a future they did not think existed as well as their feelings toward one another.

John Meade Falkner nació en Wiltshire (Inglaterra) en 1858. Tras graduarse en Oxford, supo compaginar sus eruditas y dispares aficiones, como la música sacra, la demonología, los libros viejos, los violines o los vinos antiguos, con el más lucrativo empleo de tutor de los hijos del poderoso Andrew Noble, destacado directivo de la naviera inglesa Armstrong Mitchell, de la que Falkner llegó a ser presidente. Realizó numerosos viajes comerciales por Europa y Asia, viajes que aprovechó para hacer eruditas investigaciones históricas en Italia o Turquía. Sus obligaciones profesionales no...

Little mouse decides to pull a prank his friends the bird and the squirrel by telling him that he has seen a blue wolf. What happens when a blue wolf actually appears?