Razón, intención y significado

Little mouse decides to pull a prank his friends the bird and the squirrel by telling him that he has seen a blue wolf. What happens when a blue wolf actually appears?

Canon y compromiso pudieran parecer dos categorías antitéticas, cuando menos a la luz de las premisas que sostienen el polémico concepto de canon divulgado por Harold Bloom. Este libro, en cambio, parte de la insoslayable imbricación de estética e ideología, o de la idea de la literatura como discurso ideológico, y pone en juego una noción de compromiso que conduce a superar las tradicionales dicotomías manejadas por el inconsciente artístico dominante, pureza/impureza, privado/público, intimidad/historia, y la querella resultante entre el canon poético y el compromiso. Desde...

There was much excitement on the small mountain farm. All the animals were waiting for the new horse to be brought in. They expected him to be snow-white, tall and thin. When the trailer with the horse arrived at the farm, Katja the Cow saw him. The animals were convinced that they would meet a unicorn. But would they?

Mariselle Melendez studies the dynamics of colonial subject identity construction as elaborated in the exemplary eighteenth-century travel book, El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (A Guide for Inexperienced Travelers ). She analyzes elements of race and gender to argue that they become essential parts of the colonialist project which the author articulates throughout his travel diary by means of the voices of his two narrators: the Spanish Visitador Alonso Carrio de la Vandera and his companion and amanuensis, Calixto Bustamente Carlos Inca. Melendez shows how racial and cultural hybridity...