Miradas de mujer

El mito clásico de Psique y Cupido ha sido una fructífera y atractiva fuente de inspiración literaria. Este libro hace un recorrido del mito desde sus orígenes, centrándose en el auge que tuvo durante el siglo XVI a través de las figura de Manuel Lara, Cetina y Herrera.

This trilingual volume examines the extent to which myths are affected by the crises of the 20th and 21st centuries. It brings together four theoretical studies which analyse both the crisis of structure – implying the distortion or disappearance of myth – and the crisis of concepts and terminology that currently threaten the study of mythology. The largest section of the volume focuses on the crises that have affected ancient, medieval and modern literary myths from a global perspective, taking into account psychology, ethics, politics and contemporary meta-literature. The final section...

Con este exhaustivo trabajo de campo Susana Chas da cuenta de la producción novelística de Córdoba en el período comprendido entre 2004 y 2010. Se trata de un minucioso compendio que recorre esa vasta y heterogénea producción, agrupándola en ejes temáticos o de géneros. Son más de 270 las novelas que se comentan en este volumen, a partir de una lectura que intenta ubicar tendencias, subgéneros y corrimientos estéticos en torno al canon. Los que pintan la aldea II está destinado a convertirse en un clásico por su valioso aporte al campo literario de la región.

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...