Ensayos semióticos: teoría, mito, literatura

Filólogos, pedagogos, psicólogos, folcloristas, antropólogos, historiadores o personas con intereses culturales amplios asedian continuamente, en busca de respuestas, la fortaleza laberíntica e inexpugnable -pese a su apariencia simple- del cuento folclórico, tradicional o popular: el cuento maravilloso, la fábula de animales, el cuento divertido o novelesco, el de adivinanzas, absurdos y chistes. Desde la tradición oral o desde la escrita, desde la fantasía, la leyenda o la realidad, cada cuento alberga en su interior un enorme potencial comunicativo. Y es cultura popular de primer...

C sar Vallejo is one of the finest poets of Latin America, and his poetry has managed to maintain a broad readership base right up until the modern day. Since Vallejo's posthumous poems were first published in 1939 in an edition supervised by his widow, Georgette de Vallejo, there remain to this day a number of unanswered questions about them. In what order did Vallejo write the poems? Would he have published the poems as they are? This book, by a careful analysis of the evidence available, proposes a new chronology for the posthumous poems, suggesting that the Peruvian poet's work went...

This edited volume explores the ways in which Miguel de Cervantes adopted humanist positions, whether he submitted these to critical examination or made them the target of his satires. It tries to determine how familiar Cervantes was with the contemporary developments of humanism in different European countries, and if references to particular humanist thinkers can be identified in his work. The contributions gathered in this volume, all from acknowledged Cervantes experts, tackle among others the following questions: How does Cervantes analyse the humanist connexion between science and...

"As much as in other countries, there is a bildungsroman novel in Spanish America like the ones of Güiraldes, Vargas Llosa, and Pacheco. However, less studied is the same genre of novel written by women. Examines growing pains and search for freedom in a patriarchal society in the works of Elena Poniatowska, Rosario Castellanos, Claribel Alegría, Rosario Ferré, and Beatriz Guido. Interesting contribution to the growing body of studies on these writers"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.