Susan Glaspell y los Provincetown Players

Following studies by Goodman, Waley, and Darst, this new study of Garcilaso's work rejects as unfounded the traditional readings of Garcilaso's poetry based on the idea of sincerity and the poet's frustrated love for the Portuguese lady-in-waiting Isabel Freire. In place of the much-abused concept of sincerity, Heiple argues that the intellectual currents of the Renaissance are much more important for the analysis of Garcilaso's poetry. He analyzes in Garcilaso's poetry the uses of Renaissance concepts of mythology, poetic style, theories of love, primitivism, and iconological traditions....

Siete mariposas enamoradas de su imagen. Seis horas y una invasión de ratones. Cinco aves mágicas. Cuatro joyas y un príncipe que hace el gorila. Tres perros que luchan contra sus miedos. Dos peces que sueñan con su libertad. Uno, un pequeño elefante blanco que disfruta con ser diferente y... ¡Cero!, y un ratoncito de campo muy especial. Fernando Alonso retoma la estructura de " El misterioso influjo de la barquillera " , y sustituye la manivela de la barquillera por la cuenta atrás del lanzamiento de un cohete, que será el detonante de estas narraciones.

This book analyzes the theoretical aspects of specific humoristic techniques in Gabriel Garcia Marquez. These techniques employ ranges from the use of explicit jokes, hyperbole or textual and cultural carnival, and literary resources such as irony, parody and ambiguity.

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,...