VIRGINIA WOOLF Y EL ENSAYO MODERNISTA SOBRE LONDRES

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...

A group of thirty chronicles that Fabrizio Meja Madrid spun along thirteen years while strolling up and down the national territory, from the forest to the desert, from the mountains to the highlands, to end, like so many other Mexicans every year, crossing the northern frontier. New drugs, saints with beatified roosters, murderers of one night and of one life, communards with "machetes" and teachers surrounding the foreigner murdered in Oaxaca, a town of kidnappers and three missing towns, the television that presents circus phenomena, the fantasies of the national porn, the corpses of too...

Among the multiple approaches to be taken on an author as multifaceted and prolific as the recent Nobel Laureate Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Guadalupe Mart�-Pe�a has chosen to look at the novelist as an illusionist. She studies this land of fantasies and daydreams, that seemingly harmless battlefield where literature, theatre, and painting contend and join together with the writer, the dreamer, and the illusionist to oust reality. Focusing on Elogio de la madrastra and Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto, and the effect of illusion on the reading process, she argues that by referring...

Aquests dos volums d'assajos tracten de diversos aspectes i autors de la literatura nord-americana, des dels orígens puritans fins als nostres dies. Des de la problemàtica de la possible elaboració d'un cànon literari nord-americà fins a, passant per autors com Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Thoreau, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Sinclair Lewis, Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, J. D. Salinger, John Steinbeck i William Kennedy, es presenta una visió d'aquesta literatura que té en compte els textos literaris dins del desenvolupament històric, polític i econòmic del país.