Planteamientos estéticos y políticos en la obra de Zora Neale Hurston

Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, Mar�a Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832?95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. An aristocratic Californiana, she championed the rights of Mexican Americans in novels, plays, and letters. Her 1885 novel called attention to the illegal appropriation of Mexican land by the United States government, and she critiqued the political mores of America after the Civil War in light of the Mexican-American war. Her keen assessment of corporate capitalism at the end of the nineteenth...

Después de dos décadas de analizar la ironía literaria en escritores europeos como Voltaire, Italo Calvino, Milan Kundera, Virginia Woolf, Gustave Flaubert, Leonardo Sciacia o Dino Buzzati, así como en autores latinoamericanos como Juan Rulfo, Felisberto Hernández, Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa o Mario Bellatin, la autora expone en este libro los rasgos que, desde su perspectiva, comparten las narrativas irónicas modernas y, sobre todo, contemporáneas. Paradoja, levedad, multiplicidad, desvelo del artificio e intertextualidad son las cualidades que se analizan a lo largo del...

Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...

J.M.G. Le Clézio es un escritor atípico, que ha viajado literariamente por territorios muy distintos. Este estudio se adentra en la década que abarca desde 1963 a 1973, época en la que Le Clézio incorpora a su edificio narrativo una amalgama de filosofías heterogéneas que van desde la filosofía presocrática, pasando por la filosofía zen, hasta llegar a una manera de entender el mundo de signo existencialista que se manifiesta, en el plano formal, en su vinculación al fenómeno del Nouveau roman.