El signo del centauro

El presente texto abarca el estudio temático de las producciones escritas desde la Literatura de la Colonia hasta la cubana del presente siglo, pasando por el análisis de las primeras literaturas criollas, la temática del enfrentamiento entre civilización y barbarie, la construcción de las poesías nacionales, la novela sentimental hispanoamericana, la literatura del mestizaje, el modernismo, o la narrativa hispanoamericana, la literatura del mestizaje, el modernismo, o la narrativa hispanoamericana de la independencia a la revolución.

Con motivo del segundo centenario de la muerte del escritor Friedrich von Schiller, se reúnen en este volumen estudios en torno a su obra y su recepción en otros países, así como sobre su influencia en la producción literaria de autores posteriores. Asimismo, se incluyen algunos estudios sobre transversalidad de temas y motivos schillerianos transformados, entre otros, en música o filosofía. Los trabajos compilados en este libro, fruto de la iniciativa de la Sociedad Goethe en España, invitan a una relectura renovada de la producción del escritor de Marbach, adentrándose en su...

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...

An unidentified sinner's soul is put into the body of a 14-year old boy who tried to commit suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. The twist is that in order to get the chance to be reincarnated in his next life, the sinner must find out and realize what sin he committed during his own life, which apparently has something to do with the young boy whose body he inhabits. As he lives the pitiful life of a miserable teenager who was good at art but was going through the "worst day of his life," the sinner struggles to find the connections between him and this boy while living the boy's...