Sindéresis

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...

Benito Perez Galdos sought a new narrative structure which would revitalize the literary models prevalent in 19th-century Spain. He found such a structure in the creation of a dialogue between normally incompatible texts — between old and new, national and foreign, high culture and low. From the confrontation of these incongruous texts a narrative is born which, through the destruction of textual hierarchies, creates an ambiguous and often duplicitous texture of storytelling. Five paradigms, based upon five Novelas Contemporaneas, are used to exemplify the dialogical structure of the new...

La presencia múltiple y compleja del sexo en la literatura se estudia en las litaraturas griega y latina, española e hispanoamericana, inglesa y norteamericana a lo largo de treinta ensayos monográficos. Este libro se concentra en el sexo como condicionante y como materia de la obra literaria y muestra las soluciones que distintas literaturas han dado a uno de los principales problemas de la existencia humana.

En estos ensayos, Pablo Montoya, Premio Rómulo Gallegos 2014, reflexiona sobre la vida y la obra de varios de los grandes escritores franceses del siglo XX