La anarquía inmanentista de Manuel González Prada

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...

Todas las noches, los niños disfrutan viendo cómo el cielo se va llenando de estrellas, y la Luna paseando entre ellas. Una noche, la Luna no llegó. ¿Qué habrá pasado?

Ensayo sobre las vidas y obras de los escritores Julio Cortázar y Carlos Fuentes. De Luisa Valenzuela, autora de El placer rebelde. Dos grandes de la escritura: sus puntos de contacto, sus sincronías, su trayectoria vital. Este ensayo busca profundizar en los puntos de contacto, las analogías, los paralelismos, los hallazgos simultáneos y las sincronicidades de la vida y la obra de dos grandes de la literatura contemporánea: Julio Cortázar y Carlos Fuentes. El análisis minucioso de sus cuentos y novelas se complementa con el recorrido a través de su trayectoria de vida, de la cual la...

Eamonn Wall arrived in the United States in the 1980s as part of a wave of young, educated immigrants who became known as the "New Irish." In this book he comments on his own experiences and those of his generation, who identify as much with contemporary ethnic and immigrant America as they do with the long-settled Irish American community. Wall's starting point is the now-closed Sin-é Café in New York's East Village, which was a hangout in the early 1990s for expatriate Irish musicians, actors, and writers. He comments on the poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs of both the New Irish and...