La metaficción en la novela española contemporánea

This volume of collected essays explores the premise that Plutarch's work, notwithstanding its amazing thematic multifariousness, constantly pivots on certain ideological pillars which secure its unity and coherence. So, unlike other similar books which, more or less, concentrate on either the Lives or the Moralia or on some particular aspect(s) of Plutarch's oeuvre, the articles of the present volume observe Plutarch at work in both Lives and Moralia, thus bringing forward and illustrating the inner unity of his varied literary production. The subject-matter of the volume is uncommonly...

Translated from the Latin. The original Latin versions were published in 1997 under the title: Chronica Hispana saeculi XIII (Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis; 73).

El profundo anhelo de las letras latinoamericanas de independizarse de las fuentes primeras hizo que nunca se reconciliaran con su pasado ibérico. En ese afán de independencia se propició un emparentamiento con diversas literaturas occidentales, pero ya desde la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII se entendía que la literatura nacional debía tener representatividad de la región de la cual surgía, por lo que se convirtió en el instrumento apropiado para fraguar la nacionalidad. Ángel Rama se adentra, por tal motivo, en el estudio de las culturas internas regionales para analizar la...

Brings together 35 selections by both well-known and relatively unknown authors from all the major Latina communities in the United States. Includes selections that represent the major lifestyles or issues confronting Latinas today, including sexual and personal oppression, family relations, traditional and new ways of exploring the female identity and relationships with men.