El diablo y Cervantes

Las novelas de Dostoiewski parten de una experiencia vivida dramaticamente y que el autor transforma magistralmente en una ficcion que no deja de ser siempre un trasunto de la realidad. Este realismo es el que caracteriza a El adolescente, novela que tiene como principal protagonista a un joven ruso que admira u odia a su padre segun sean las influencias contradictorias que recibe. La vida del adolescente y de un retablo de personajes, maravillosamente caracterizados por Dostoiewski, que bullen en torno de el, va creando un crescendo en la novela, que es lo que mueve al lector a no abandonar...

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...

De un orador de la talla de Marco Tulio Cicerón (106-43 a.C.) es lógico pensar que no se dedicara sólo a pronunciar brillantes discursos (la mayoría publicados ya en la Biblioteca Clásica Gredos), sino también a teorizar sobre la oratoria. Escrito en

Brings together 35 selections by both well-known and relatively unknown authors from all the major Latina communities in the United States. Includes selections that represent the major lifestyles or issues confronting Latinas today, including sexual and personal oppression, family relations, traditional and new ways of exploring the female identity and relationships with men.