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Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this comparative study of a selection of The Arabian Nights stories in a cross-cultural context, brings together a number of disciplines and subject areas to examine the workings of narrative. It predominantly focuses on the ways in which the Arabian Nights have transformed as its stories have travelled across historical eras, cultures, genres and media. Departing from the familiar approaches of influence and textual studies, this book locates its central inquiry in the theoretical questions surrounding the workings of ideology, genre and genre ideology ...

Who writes "I"? How is the scene of writing represented in autobiographical texts? To whom are autobiographies addressed? What kinds of readers are inscribed in autobiographical narratives? In Apology to Apostrophe, James D. Fernandez offers a lucid and powerful meditation on the nature of autobiographical writing through his investigation of the historical conditions and literary stagings of autobiographical writing in Spain. As Fernandez demonstrates, recent developments in critical theory provide new and fruitful approaches to autobiographical works that have long been neglected,...

Esther Cross sigue los pasos de Mary Shelley con la ayuda de distintos, sorprendentes materiales. La acompaña al cementerio donde la escritora, de pequeña, se instalaba a leer; estudia sus cartas, su diario, la observa en sus duelos. Y profundiza en el mundo que se gestaba a su alrededor: la Londres moderna, la ciencia del futuro, mediante la experimentación con cadáveres. En palabras de Mariana Enriquez, La mujer que escribió Frankenstein es «un libro hermoso y extravagante, sumamente original. […] Un libro sobre Mary Shelley, sobre su época y su obra, sobre los personajes de la...

Libro informativo sobre el agua: el ciclo del agua, los ríos, los mares y océanos, la energía del agua...