Border Crossings

Fue Plutarco (46 d C - 120 d C), que vivi largo y tendido, quien acun la frase Vidas paralelas como ttulo y como lema - y como una visin de la historia. Vidas para leerlas es, desde el ttulo, una variacin pardica sobre un tema de Plutarco, el primer historiador que bas sus historias en el chisme de saln y los rumores de la corte. Las vidas hechas paralelas por Plutarco han adquirido no slo popularidad (todava se lee a dos mil aos de su muerte) sino que han sido modelo para Shakespeare en su poesa dramtica, han servido para hacer cine (Julio Csar, Antonio y Cleopatra) y todava interesan estas...

Le tre commedie presentate, che apparvero postume nella Vega del Parnaso di Lope de Vega, rivelano interessanti percorsi testuali. Nel caso del Guante de doña Blanca assistiamo ad un intreccio di fonti: una diffusa leggenda spagnola, già raccolta dal letterato Matteo Bandello (Castelnuovo Scrivia 1485 - Agen 1561), probabilmente ravviva l'interesse di Lope per il racconto, che tuttavia egli ambienta in un mitico Portogallo medioevale; a questo "viaggio" risponde poi quello della diffusione del testo letterario a stampa, tra le Partes non autorizzate e la raccolta curata dall'autore....

PolitÌca / sexualidad shows that during the 1980s a traceable phenomenon in Latin American women's writing is the creation of a knot in which sexuality becomes entangled with politics. Women's writing struggles to create a political reading of the discourse of sexuality and likewise show how political space forces the private sphere to impose itself upon the sexuality of women. At one level of representation, a woman's body is the space where discourse merges the joyful experience of pleasure with the pain of repression. This book is a contribution to the construction of a Latin American...

Although the three authors studied, Ana Maria Matute, Carmen Martin Gaite, and Esther Tusquets, are sophisticated intellectuals, they have chosen fairy tales and texts from other marginalized genres originally for female consumption (such as the novela rosa and the Hollywood women's picture) as the major intertexts in their novels for adults as well as in their fictions for children. Against the backdrop feminist theory and recent critical studies of fairy tales and children's literature, Solino studies the works of these authors as "gendered texts." Solino's book opens with a chapter that...