Entre la hiedra

"Con ayuda da su abuela y un diccionario, Raúl intentó convencer a su mamá, para que lo dejara tener como mascota a un merro callajero. La clave era usar palabras rimbombantes." -- back cover.

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...

The story of a small French town during the 19th century. When a beautiful young woman moves into an old run down house, strange things start to happen.

La 'Colación muy provechosa' de Fray Hernando de Talavera figura entre los primeros escritos dirigidos a la reina Isabel en el primer lustro de gobierno. La obra potencia la renovación individual y resalta las propiedades simbólicas de la reina de las aves. Esta pieza sermonaria, puso en manos de Isabel un programático discurso moral para uso de la nueva gobernadora. En el 'Breve Tractado de los loores de San Juan Evangelista' presidido por la doctrina cristológica, es una alabanza perfecta del apóstol, en una argumentación dialéctica implacable, destinada a canalizar la dimensión...

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...