Estudios Literarios, Vol. 2

Establishing the notion of reasonable foolishness and foolish reason as a generic principle of the old French farce, Boucquey's study examines the interdependencies among four key mimetic phenomena: the demented universe of the Feast of Fools festival, the genre of the farce, Bruegel's representation of the world, and the euphoric comedies of triumphant madness created by Moliere. This reinterpretation of French farce according to the principle of a topsy-turvy world reveals the link of madness that unites the four modes of production studied, from textual linearity, through representational...

Sonia Thon realiza un estudio sobre la obra narrativa de Margarita Nelken, mujer española, culta y cosmopolita, quien logró destacarse en una sociedad llena de prejuicios que, entre otras cosas, despreciaba al judío, a la mujer trabajadora, a la escritora, a la madre soltera y a la militante de izquierda, categorías todas a las que ella pertenecía. Este libro nos demuestra su habilidad literaria como escritora a través de sus ocho novelas cortas.

This book analyzes the theoretical aspects of specific humoristic techniques in Gabriel Garcia Marquez. These techniques employ ranges from the use of explicit jokes, hyperbole or textual and cultural carnival, and literary resources such as irony, parody and ambiguity.