La pasión de la Bella Otero

Laura asks her father whether or not various animals fart like people do and he tries to imagine if the animals do or not.

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...

Este libro presenta, de modo sintético, los hitos del pensamiento y de la crítica literarias desde la realidad del multilingüismo de nuestra sociedad. En España conviven cuatro lenguas con sus literaturas, lo que implica una pluralidad cultural que debe ser atendida de modo sistemático en publicaciones científicas que presenten al lector el conjunto de las cuatro, de modo que se visualicen tanto las correspondencias como las distancias y especificidades. El desarrollo del pensamiento y la crítica de cada uno de los cuatro sistemas literarios es abordado por los especialistas que firman ...

Who writes "I"? How is the scene of writing represented in autobiographical texts? To whom are autobiographies addressed? What kinds of readers are inscribed in autobiographical narratives? In Apology to Apostrophe, James D. Fernandez offers a lucid and powerful meditation on the nature of autobiographical writing through his investigation of the historical conditions and literary stagings of autobiographical writing in Spain. As Fernandez demonstrates, recent developments in critical theory provide new and fruitful approaches to autobiographical works that have long been neglected,...