El domador de sueños

Tómate tiempo Compilado por Fernando Perfetti La Madre Teresa, entre tantos mensajes que nos supo transmitir con su vida, hay uno que, particularmente, rescata en nosotros el valor de “las pequeñas cosas”..., y es ese tiempo que por distintos motivos, pareciera que nunca disponemos. “Tómate tiempo” trata de impulsarnos a que reavivemos nuestro tiempo para la meditación, para la contemplación, para reencontrarnos con nuestra intimidad y para lograr experimentar esa sensación de bienestar que tanto anhelamos, aún en medio de la rutina y de la carrera a la que nos expone la...

Los artículos reunidos en este volumen abarcan no sólo preguntas sobre la formación de una comunidad literaria a través de prácticas editoriales, de tradiciones y de definiciones de literatura, sino que también reflexionan sobre las estrategias para construir un repertorio temático.

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 volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial...