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All her life, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love's death. She doesn't believe in true love and never thought this would be a problem, but as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she's not so sure anymore.

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...

Una revaloración de los dramas seculares calderonianos desde el prisma de la duda. Tras la recepción inicial del teatro calderoniano como vindicación del discurso ortodoxo oficial y su consideración disidente, esta obra resalta este último aspecto a partir de un análisis centrado en la difusión de la duda y la promoción de la sospecha.

Algunas prácticas artísticas latinoamericanas contemporáneas trabajan con formas de lo impersonal y anónimo e insisten en interrogar la intensidad de una experiencia que es irreductible a un yo y que se vuelve instancia de interrogación y exploración. Obras de Teixeira Coelho, Veronica Stigger, Diamela Eltit, Rosângela Rennó, Gian Paolo Minelli, Sergio Chejfec, Edgardo Dobry, Marília Garcia, Carlos Cociña, Patricio Guzmán, Jonathas de Andrade y Kleber Mendonça Filho elaboran formas de acceder –de narrar, de exhibir, de discutir– a una vida anónima que viene a reemplazar la...