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Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) continúa ejerciendo una influencia poderosa en la literatura norteamericana e internacional. Para el poeta que imaginó muchas veces cómo sería visto y sentido por sus contemporáneos, o que invitó a sus futuros lectores a compart

El lenguaje implica como acto natural de habla un fondo táctil y metonímico en consonancia con el entorno vivencial del hablante. Es una taxia antepredicativa que induce un a priori correlativo y una semiosis constante que lo transforma en fondo categorial y perceptivo del conocimiento. De aquí procede una función gramatical mínima y cuántica. Su resonancia de fondo nos exige retomar el valor poético del nombre, del acto de nombrar incurso en toda palabra o esquema suyo. El deseo de conocer e interpretar la realidad nos mueve incluso a percibirla como nunca la conocemos realmente fuera ...

An unidentified sinner's soul is put into the body of a 14-year old boy who tried to commit suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. The twist is that in order to get the chance to be reincarnated in his next life, the sinner must find out and realize what sin he committed during his own life, which apparently has something to do with the young boy whose body he inhabits. As he lives the pitiful life of a miserable teenager who was good at art but was going through the "worst day of his life," the sinner struggles to find the connections between him and this boy while living the boy's...

In this brilliant overview of parodic praxis in the Spanish-American novel during the years 1960-1985, Elzbieta Skłodowska examines several aspects of parody: its role in the renovation of anachronistic forms of discourse (mock-epic) and the re-writing of the canon of the historical novel; its function in transgressing literary formulas (detective novel); its subversive quality in the counter-discourse of women writers; and the relation between parody, satire, irony, humor, and metafiction. This sound analysis of some twenty-five novels, carefully illustrated by works little treated in...