Cinco versiones de Adriano

Il primo numero della rivista è stato pubblicato nel 1990 all’interno della collana “Studi di letteratura Ispanoamericana” diretta dal prof. Giuseppe Bellini dell’Università degli Studi di Milano. Dal fascicolo n. 9/2000 è rivista del Dipartimento di Scienze Linguistiche dell’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore sotto la Direzione del prof. Dante Liano, Ordinario di Lingua e letterature ispanoamericane nella medesima Università. «Centroamericana» tratta temi legati alla lingua, alla letteratura e alla cultura dei paesi del Centro America e delle Antille. Esce con due...

This volume of collected essays explores the premise that Plutarch's work, notwithstanding its amazing thematic multifariousness, constantly pivots on certain ideological pillars which secure its unity and coherence. So, unlike other similar books which, more or less, concentrate on either the Lives or the Moralia or on some particular aspect(s) of Plutarch's oeuvre, the articles of the present volume observe Plutarch at work in both Lives and Moralia, thus bringing forward and illustrating the inner unity of his varied literary production. The subject-matter of the volume is uncommonly...

This study breaks new ground in García Márquez studies by focusing on the author's journalistic writings between 1948 and 1955. By using a combination of modern critical methods, including narratology, dialogism and transtextuality, this study shows how García Márquez' early journalism laid the foundations for his later fiction writing. This work provides an exhaustive, coherent and comprehensive analysis of a neglected area of the Colombian author's writing. This study shows that García Márquez is a bigeneric writer, a journalist-fiction writer, who constantly combines genres in his...

An examination of the form and significance of the 56 short narratives of Ramon Gomez de la Serna, based on a review of his own theoretical views on narrative, derived from his essays, prologues and vignettes, related in turn to theories of the modern novella developed by Gillespie et al.