Postmodernismo y metaficción historiográfica (2ª ed.)

Esta monografía propone una lectura histórica de los últimos veinte años de la vida y obra de Benito Pérez Galdós, con especial dedicación a su producción narrativa. Se trata de un estudio novedoso sobre uno de los periodos más controvertidos para la crítica galdosiana, cuyos resultados a día de hoy se traducen en investigaciones dispersas, conectadas entre sí tan solo de manera parcial. Por ello, este trabajo relaciona su producción escrita (novelas, piezas teatrales, artículos, prólogos, discursos y correspondencia) con su actividad pública (política e intelectual)....

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...

“He aquí un retrato del corazón del hombre que entrego al público con el nombre de Reflexiones o Máximas Morales”. La Rochefoucauld, noble, guerrero, conspirador y filósofo, hizo de su obra, llena de ironía, humor y despego, notable cinismo y prodigiosa lucidez, la más profunda reflexión moral que nos ha legado el racionalismo y, a la vez, una obra maestra del estilo, de la inteligencia, de la literatura.

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...