El escritor y la bailarina

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 ...

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...

¿Puede un autor someter la tradición literaria a una reescritura programada y consciente? ¿Es la poesía un reflejo fiel de la poética explícita? Partiendo de las ideas de Harold Bloom y T.S. Eliot acerca del vínculo conflictivo y pasional que los poetas mantienen con sus precursores, este libro emplea aportaciones psicoanalíticas y deconstructivas para explorar el desajuste existente entre poesía y poética, que halla en causas estratégicas cierta explicación. La obra híbrida de Luis García Montero ofrece un territorio inmejorable para ello, pues al empuje de su poesía, que goza ...

Lucho, un niño que vive en los Andes, ayuda a su papá a pastorear las alpacas y ayuda con la cosecha de papas. Para él y su familia, la papa es uno de los alimentos más importantes. Cuando Lucho sueña de comer un helado, una de las alpacas le cuenta cómo hacer helado de papas.