Ellas se aburren

This volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial...

El estudio demuestra que en la obra de Fernando de Rojas la parodia no se limita a los elementos típicos del amor cortés, sino a la novela sentimental en conjunto mediante inversiones, absurdos, ironías, sarcasmos e incongruencias.

El libro Literatura y Cine aborda en primer lugar las relaciones entre el discurso literario y el discurso fílmico, atendiendo a la reflexión filosófica, a la crítica literaria clásica, a la teoría formalista, a los análisis semiológicos y a las perspectivas pragmáticas. Ese marco conceptual se ilustra con la referencia a filmes muy significativos. En el segundo capítulo se analiza el controvertido asunto de las adaptaciones o recreaciones fílmicas con el estudio de versiones cinematográficas de obras de la literatura universal y de la literatura española. En el tercer apartado...

There was much excitement on the small mountain farm. All the animals were waiting for the new horse to be brought in. They expected him to be snow-white, tall and thin. When the trailer with the horse arrived at the farm, Katja the Cow saw him. The animals were convinced that they would meet a unicorn. But would they?