Poética de lo otro

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...

¿Es posible conocer y educar conforme tal cual es la realidad o por el contrario educamos construyendo la realidad por la actividad cognoscitiva y subjetiva del hombre? Esta tesis central del idealismo pedagógico alemán, de considerable influencia en la pedagogía contemporánea, es la que nos muestra el profesor José María Quintana Cabanas con esta obra entregada a la imprenta un mes antes de su fallecimiento. Una investigación maestra en su género, elaborada con rigor y profundidad, a la vez que con un espíritu de análisis y síntesis encomiables, en la que el autor, buen conocedor ...

Candela always passes in front of a house covered with vines on her way home from school. The old mansion has been abandoned for so long that it must be concealing some sort of mystery. She has kept her distance, fearfully quickening her pace, but today a disturbing detail has called her attention: the glass door to the first-floor balcony is ajar. And if that isn't enough, she also seems to hear a whispering voice. Is there someone in the house? Curiosity can be more powerful than fear, and Candela obeys her instinct and crosses the threshold to find out who--or what--is hiding within.

Después de dos décadas de analizar la ironía literaria en escritores europeos como Voltaire, Italo Calvino, Milan Kundera, Virginia Woolf, Gustave Flaubert, Leonardo Sciacia o Dino Buzzati, así como en autores latinoamericanos como Juan Rulfo, Felisberto Hernández, Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa o Mario Bellatin, la autora expone en este libro los rasgos que, desde su perspectiva, comparten las narrativas irónicas modernas y, sobre todo, contemporáneas. Paradoja, levedad, multiplicidad, desvelo del artificio e intertextualidad son las cualidades que se analizan a lo largo del...