Arthur Miller: visiones desde el nuevo milenio

This book explores the most recent critical and theoretical approaches in the field of Chicano studies from an interdisciplinary perspective. The contributions go back to the 4th International Conference on Chicano Literature which took place in Sevilla in May 2004. They deal with a wide variety of topics and approach the subject from diverse viewpoints. Some examine specific literary texts by major Chicano authors from feminist, comparative and close-reading approaches, others discuss ideological and cultural issues like folklore, ethnicity, identity, sexuality or stereotypes, while yet...

La historia de la infancia y de la literatura infantil son historias paralelas. Bajo esta premisa, lo que el presente panorama pretende es mostrar cómo se ha representado la infancia en la literatura infantil colombiana, cómo se ha ido transformando esta representación a medida que cambian las condiciones económicas y sociales y en consecuencia las concepciones pedagógicas y culturales relacionadas con la niñez.

An intriguing study of The Da Vinci Code looks at the content, themes, real-life historical background and characters, and revelations of the best-selling novel.

El panorama más amplio del patrimonio literario universal.La célebre Historia de la literatura universal es la más completa y lúcida síntesis que existe en castellano sobre las literaturas de todas las épocas, desde sus más remotos orígenes hasta las puertas del siglo XXI. Con una prosa ágil y un sugestivo espíritu crítico, Martín de Riquer y Jose María Valverde ofrecen un análisis profundo de los principales escritores y obras, al tiempo que conforman una visión global de los distintos movimientos y acontecimientos literarios.

Benito Perez Galdos sought a new narrative structure which would revitalize the literary models prevalent in 19th-century Spain. He found such a structure in the creation of a dialogue between normally incompatible texts — between old and new, national and foreign, high culture and low. From the confrontation of these incongruous texts a narrative is born which, through the destruction of textual hierarchies, creates an ambiguous and often duplicitous texture of storytelling. Five paradigms, based upon five Novelas Contemporaneas, are used to exemplify the dialogical structure of the new...