Diccionario práctico del comentario de textos literarios

“En un principio me atrajo un interrogante que aparecía con contundencia en su narrativa- acerca de la femineidad. Sin embargo, a medida que me fui adentrando en el tema, comprendí que las novelas de la autora bien podrían haber sido tratados de sociología, porque el aliento que impulsa su creación literaria es una pregunta en torno a la naturaleza y a la cultura, al hecho que produce la humanización, a la ley que hace vínculo social. Y anudados a dichos conceptos, el hombre y la mujer, implicados en la misma epopeya, situados cada uno en uno de los dos lados, aderezados con los...

Space can best be defined not by looking at borders and territories but, rather, by focussing on movements of crossing and re-crossing. Today, the horizons of traditional Area Studies have to be opened up by innovative TransArea Studies which generate a new vision of entangled and connected histories and multi-, inter- and transcultural developments. The vectorization of all kinds of knowledge is on the agenda: the movements of the past are still present in the movements of today. Could there be a better field for this theoretical shift than the Caribbean, one of the outstanding producers of...

An anthology of Spanish women writers from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century. Water Lilies brings to light a rich & until now, largely invisible version of Spanish literary history. These hard-to-find works, most translated for the first time, are printed on facing pages in Spanish & English & are located within a critical, biographical & historical overview.

An examination of the form and significance of the 56 short narratives of Ramon Gomez de la Serna, based on a review of his own theoretical views on narrative, derived from his essays, prologues and vignettes, related in turn to theories of the modern novella developed by Gillespie et al.