La novela histórica latinoamericana entre dos siglos

The book, unique in its kind, includes a total of 28 writers representative of 13 different Latin American countries, from those who are part of the canon such as Isabel Allende, Gioconda Belli, Liliana Heker, Nancy Morejon, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, Alfonsina Storni, Gabriela Mistral, and Julia de Burgos to emergent voices, such as Cecilia Bustamante, Rosina Valcarcel, and Gladys Ilarregui. This anthology will be the perfect text to give an overview of contemporary poetry and short story by leading Latin American women writers. The range of countries...

La presente obra propone mostrar qué se esconde tras el disfraz lingüístico del tabú, a través de un recorrido global e interdisciplinar de los procesos de interdicción lingüística (el eufemismo, el disfemismo y los procesos mixtos) en sus distintas vertientes (lingüística, pragmática y literaria) tomando como base el lenguaje literario inglés. De este modo, El eufemismo y el disfemismo intenta subsanar las limitaciones observadas en los trabajos precedentes relativos a la interdicción verbal, por lo general limitados al eufemismo como fenómeno léxico-semántico, y adopta una...

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.

This volume of essays in Spanish and English examines some of the key issues which surround the emergence of the Avant-Garde novel in Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century. The experimental novel of the 1920s is seen as the culmination of a process of change in approaches to the novel which began early in the century and was further promoted by Spain's key Avant-Gardist Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Several essays focus on the form of the novel and seek to shed new light on the role of José Ortega y Gasset as mentor to the new writers of the 1920s and on our understanding of his use...