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En los últimos años gran parte del relevo de la crítica dedicada al corpus escritural de Benito Pérez Galdós está en estos momentos cambiando de género. La nueva escritura crítica firmada por mujeres configura y habilita un discurso crítico distinto, abriendo nuevos espacios y explorando parcelas antes desechadas. Este estudio forma parte de esta nueva crítica literaria dedicada a Galdós. Poetizada ésta como una "ciudad" crítico-lingüística, la presente lectura se posiciona entre "barrios". Propone una re-lectura de la novela cumbre de Galdós, Fortunata y Jacinta, desde un...

Esta obra, una de las más importantes de un ensayista excepcional, es una disertación sobre política que abarca los debates teóricos de mayor trascendencia. Terry Eagleton explica las distintas definiciones de ideología y expone la tortuosa historia del concepto desde la Ilustración hasta la posmodernidad, ofreciendo lúcidas interpretaciones del pensamiento de los principales pensadores marxistas y de otros como Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Freud y ciertos postestructuralistas. Nunca como hoy la ideología ha sido a la vez tan visible y tan incomprendida, tan presente y tan ausente. Desde...

This work is premised on the assumption that the time that has transpired since the original exodus after the Cuban Revolution has been sufficient to establish a definable Cuban American literature. This volume, which includes 29 authors writing in Spanish who have lived in the United States since at least 1970, is wide ranging in its aspirations and provides samples of the two fundamental components of Cuban American literature.

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...