Utopía

¿Qué puede suceder cuando un grupo de amigos, relacionados todos ellos con el mundo editorial neoyorquino, se lanzan a la investigación de un presunto asesinato ? ¿Saldrán indemnes de una investigación en la que, a medida que avanza, se vuelve todo más peligroso ? ¿O querrán seguir con ella porque, de pronto, han descubierto como vivir la aventura, incluso la del amor, con el riesgo pisándoles los talones ? Carol (Diane Keaton) y Larry (Woody Allen) traban amistad con sus vecinos, Paul y Lillian, una adorable pareja de personas mayores que parece llevarse de maravilla, un día antes ...

In the past decades, with the decline of the Grand Narratives and the subsequent need for new historical and political orientation, literary studies have been reflecting on the role of literature in the world. Together with Jacques Rancière—and in dialogue with Althusser, Foucault, or Fischer-Lichte—the present volume analyzes this political turn of literary studies.

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...