El celuloide mecanografiado: la poesía cinemática de E. A. Westphalen

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...

Cuando Day y June chocan sus leyendas se hacen pedazos y dejan al decubierto dos personas que se atraen como polos opuestos de un imán.

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 es un libro subjetivo. Quizá todos lo sean, pero este, si cabe, lo es más. Responde a la idea de compartir con un público, cuanto más amplio mejor, una serie de sugerencias sobre libros, temáticas y autores que conforman una literatura de calidad, y cuya lectura es una fuente de placer y conocimiento. He elegido la forma de un abecedario porque permite organizar y parcializar la información de un modo ordenado que es, a su vez, aleatorio, lo cual aporta un grado más de sorpresa en la inclusión de las entradas elegidas. Sobre la lectura, ya se ha dicho todo en la historia. Cabe...