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This is an essay in which rust and idleness become the first reason and the last sense of life. The new work by Fanadelli tries to answer the questions that obsess its author: Why do we live in such an absolutely hopeless time? How do men squashed by modernity and the archetypal structures of culture can coexist and relate to each other? How do the different paths identify among themselves, how can those of us who surrender the loads that others support identify ourselves and face the world? Ensayo en el que la herrumbre y la vagancia se vuelven el primer motivo y el ltimo sentido de la vida. ...

Como crecen los hongos ofrece un panorama detallado de la produccion novelistica argentina entre 1838 y 1872, periodo que suele ser caracterizado como particularmente esteril en el genero. Los ochenta y seis textos examinados en estas paginas revelan, sin embargo, la fecunda obra de novelistas ignorados o desdenados por el canon. Molina analiza la novela como una realidad emergente en el sistema cultural del siglo XIX, teniendo en cuenta la produccion, la edicion y la recepcion, la poetica del genero y el estudio de los textos particulares. Minuciosas pesquisas bibliograficas, hemerograficas...

Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this comparative study of a selection of The Arabian Nights stories in a cross-cultural context, brings together a number of disciplines and subject areas to examine the workings of narrative. It predominantly focuses on the ways in which the Arabian Nights have transformed as its stories have travelled across historical eras, cultures, genres and media. Departing from the familiar approaches of influence and textual studies, this book locates its central inquiry in the theoretical questions surrounding the workings of ideology, genre and genre ideology ...

This book offers the first panoramic study on the development and characteristics of the literary-journalistic genre of spectator periodicals in Hispanic America and Brazil. After contextualizing these publications within the emancipation processes of 19th-century American Enlightenment, it explores the new coexistence modes and esthetics they disseminated.