Fernando de Herrera, Góngora y Soto de Rojas

The summer has really bad for Manolito. He is condemned, once again, to spend the holidays in his small flat in Carabanchel Alto with his mother, his grandfather and his little brother. And he has failed mathematics, to his mother's chagrin. Manolito looks forward to the arrival of his father, a truck driver, to take the family to the beach.

Mujeres en transito examines in detail the insightful accounts of four prominent female writers who traveled to and from Latin America in the nineteenth century: the French Peruvian socialist and activist Flora Tristan (1803-44), the Argentines Juana Manuela Gorriti (1816-92), Eduarda Mansilla (1834-92), and the Peruvian Clorinda Matto de Turner (1852-1909). Each author traveled and wrote in different and significant moments in the history of the Latin American nations, and their texts touch upon the nature of hemispheric and European cross-cultural relations. Mujeres en transito revises the...

This book analyzes the theoretical aspects of specific humoristic techniques in Gabriel Garcia Marquez. These techniques employ ranges from the use of explicit jokes, hyperbole or textual and cultural carnival, and literary resources such as irony, parody and ambiguity.

En este tomo, titulado «El cuento nativo y el teatro nacional», de la monumental obra «Historia crítica de la literatura uruguaya», Carlos Roxlo analiza y explica la literatura uruguaya publicada entre 1885 y 1898 y aborda temas como la definición y las características de la literatura criolla o la influencia de Homero y la «Ilíada» en la literatura uruguaya. Carlos Roxlo (1861-1926) fue un poeta, periodista y político uruguayo. Sus obras, fuertemente vinculadas a la poesía gauchesca, tuvieron una gran popularidad a finales del siglo XIX. Militó en el Partido Nacional, fue...