La historia de Gilgamesh

For students of literature, a background in literary theory will provide tools for analysis that yield a rich understanding of literary texts as well as a variety of approaches to writing about them. This is the first introductory Spanish-language textbook to present the complex and challenging thought of Barthes, Derrida, Foucault, Lacan, Kristeva and other leading authors, as well as feminists of the first and second waves, Russian formalists, Marxists, post-colonial writers, cultural and queer studies theorists and many other central thinkers in literary theory. Each chapter explores a...

La conquista de America por el lenguaje es el tema de Las auroras de sangre, una apasionante exploracion e interpretacion de Las elegias de varones ilustres de Indias de Juan de Castellanos. Book jacket.

En diciembre de 2004, Paco Ignacio Taibo II y el Subcomandante Marcos empezaron a publicar en el periódico mexicano La Jornada una novela por entregas titulada Muertos incómodos. El proyecto confirma la vocación literaria del portavoz del Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, vocación y talento que ya se habían manifestado en los comunicados de la guerrilla. Kristine Vanden Berghe procede a una lectura detenida de los relatos incluidos por Marcos en dichos comunicados y reunidos posteriormente en los libros Relatos de el Viejo Antonio (1998) y Don Durito de la Lacandona (1999). La ...

Propuestas para (re)construir una nación explores how Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851–1921) imagines and engenders the Spanish nation in her theatrical production staged and/or published between 1898 and 1909. In the aftermath of Spain’s colonial losses, when Spain’s male authors, in a growing mood of collective introspection, directed their attention to the homeland, Pardo Bazán generated a series of theatrical proposals to revitalize the nation. In her plays, she manifests her ideas about Spain’s fin de siècle crisis, reflects on Spain’s place in the international arena (emphasizing...