Contiendas en torno al canon

«COMO CAUSAS Y EFECTOS suelen estar relacionados, el efecto deque la personalidad científica de Gregorio Hinojo pueda serrepresentada ante ustedes de manera adecuada tiene su causa –no estará de más explicitarlo– en sus cualidades personales, ésas que los artículos y los currículos a veces no dejan ver. Gregorio es hombre demuchos amigos y alguien que se goza y al que euforiza (por hablarasí) el contacto con las personas. Resulta un placer para todos que sucontinuada siembra de cordialidad y buen humor a lo largo de muchosaños de docencia universitaria le haya sido devuelta en...

This trilingual volume examines the extent to which myths are affected by the crises of the 20th and 21st centuries. It brings together four theoretical studies which analyse both the crisis of structure – implying the distortion or disappearance of myth – and the crisis of concepts and terminology that currently threaten the study of mythology. The largest section of the volume focuses on the crises that have affected ancient, medieval and modern literary myths from a global perspective, taking into account psychology, ethics, politics and contemporary meta-literature. The final section...

Childhood is a fundamental theme in the works of Ana Maria Matute, and also one of the key issues for the study of the aesthetic narrative of the writer. This thesis presents an analysis of the image of childhood in the works of Matute written for adults, observed in two distinct literary contexts: that of the realistic novels and of the fantastic works. This division also corresponds, though not mathematically, to the two creative periods of the writer, so that the continuity and evolution of both the theme and the aesthetic techniques throughout the author's entire literary career can be...

Juan's father, a fisherman, is caught in a storm and returns very ill. Guided by his friend, the Moon, Juan takes a magical trip to the bottom of the sea and recaptures his father's health from an ornery octopus.