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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...

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.

This volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial...

Desde su creacion entre 1636 y 1638, la obra popularmente conocida como El carnero (1859) ha sido fuente de polemica, la cual se desprende de su empleo del rumor como fuente historica y la narracion detallada, desvergonzada e incluso jocosa de una cotidianidad colonial que era publicamente rechazada pero puesta en practica entre las sombras por gran parte de los habitantes del Reino de Nueva Granada, hoy Colombia. Dicha obra ha logrado consolidarse como parte fundamental del ideario de una nacion, por lo cual resulta pertinente analizar el mensaje que pretende emitir: esa critica que se ha...