La novela y la Intermedialidad

The Ties That Bind comprises the first collection of critical essays that explore the family system in Spanish and Latin American culture. This thought-provoking volume addresses the intersection of language, narrative structure, social reality, and family dynamics through examples from a diverse range of literary works, including Cervantes' Don Quijote, Reinaldo Arenas' Celestino antes del alba, and the Chicano film My Family/Mi Familia. Issues of feminism, gender and sexuality, abuse, trauma, and communication take the forefront in this ground-breaking book, which takes psychological...

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...

Tirarse a la piscina es la primera parte de una trilogía escrita por la consagrada Kate Kann. Esta autora, socióloga de profesión, intenta reflejar en sus libros situaciones de jóvenes normales en el mundo occidental. En esta serie nos introduce en la vida de una joven estudiante, Colette, que afronta los problemas propios de la adolescencia. Colette comienza a salir con un chico, Art, por el que siente una gran adoración. Mientras Colette se esfuerza por encontrar lo que ella desea en la relación de ambos, empieza a preguntarse hasta donde debe llegar. ¿Podrá entenderse con un novio...

A pathbreaking account of the influence and context of Andalusian life and art in the poetry and drama of Federico Garcia Lorca. Andalusia was the central feature and influence in the life and writings of the twentieth-century author, musician, and artist, Federico Garcia Lorca. Rooted in his native region, which both captivated and shaped him, Lorca maintained that "The better a writer learns how to interpret the landscape, the greater the artist he will be." Blessed with an acute historical sense of a region where the past is both present and enduring, Lorca proved himself sensitive and...