Antonio Benítez Rojo

This analysis shows that Reinaldo Arenas' work is one of exile and alienation. Arenas, as a human being as well as an author, suffered all forms of exile, and these influence the structure of his work. In his literary work, as well as in his life, all the definitions of exile given by sociology are present; that of inner exile, to which Arenas added a new characteristic, and that of territorial exile as well. His work represents the vision of the marginated, imprisoned, persecuted, rejected. The purpose of his novels and poetry is to reveal, from a historical reconstruction, the explanation...

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...

Este trabajo investiga la adquisición del sistema temporal-aspectual en español como segunda lengua/lengua extranjera desde una perspectiva múltiple. A través de un estudio con 657 participantes, se enfocan las dificultades específicas de aprendices alemanes cuya primera lengua se distingue del español por la falta del aspecto gramatical. Al contrastarlos con hablantes de lenguas románicas, empleando métodos de la estadística inferencial, el hallazgo principal consiste en un efecto crucial de marcadores temporales que supera lo que se encontró en estudios anteriores (por ejemplo,...

Este libro constituye un brillante ejercicio de investigación y de critica cultural. La autora nos sitúa la obra poética de tres autoras irlandesas, Eavan Boland, Nuala Ní Dhomhnail y Paula Meehan, en su entorno ideológico y artístico, mostrando la subversión efectuada por escritos y artistas en su definición de una Irlanda postnacionalista, cuya historia y mitología releen desde la contemporaneidad y el feminismo