Mi destino

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...

A romance between a priest and a nun-in-training leads to her pregnancy and his suicide. She is Gabriella Harrison, daughter of parents who abandoned her to a convent. The affair leads to her expulsion and she becomes a writer.

Este volumen se ocupa de las presencias tecnológicas y mediáticas y sus vínculos con los procesos de desterritorialización propios de la globalización en la literatura latinoamericana de los últimos veinte años.

"A Max no le va a quedar más remedio que ocultar a sus amigos en su propia casa, ya que una duende ha destrozado el tren fantasma. Pero no hay mal que por bien no venga: ya que Max tiene a los monstruos en casa, ¿por qué no aprovecha para darle un buen susto a la pesada de su hermana?" --P. [4] of cover.