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En este trabajo se analizan comparativamente los "Bildungsromane femeninos" de la escritora mexicana Carmen Boullosa y de la chicana Sandra Cisneros. This work is a comparative analysis of the female Bildungsromane of Mexican writer Carmen Boullosa and Chicana writer Sandra Cisneros.

Many of the fundamental concerns of Chicano and Mexican letters are dealt with by Leal, such as the meaning and origin of the myth of Aztlan, the problem of distinguishing Chicano literature from American and Mexican literature, the consideration of the influence of the Mexican Revolution novel on Chicano narrative, the description of the feminine archetypes of the Mexican Revolution novel on Chicano narrative, and a review of the North American as depicted in Mexican literature.

El presente volumen en realidad constituye una teoría, stricto sensu, de la literatura y de las clases de ésta. En él se reúne debidamente organizado un conjunto de escritos sobre la idea y los conceptos de Literatura así como de la serie de géneros literarios. Se trata de textos producidos durante unas tres décadas. Puede decirse que mucho se ha escrito sobre esta materia, pero desde luego no tanto con investigación y reflexión extensas y fundamentadoras, además de resultados teóricos y descriptivos de sentido y valor general. La Literatura debe ser definida mediante criterio de...

Following studies by Goodman, Waley, and Darst, this new study of Garcilaso's work rejects as unfounded the traditional readings of Garcilaso's poetry based on the idea of sincerity and the poet's frustrated love for the Portuguese lady-in-waiting Isabel Freire. In place of the much-abused concept of sincerity, Heiple argues that the intellectual currents of the Renaissance are much more important for the analysis of Garcilaso's poetry. He analyzes in Garcilaso's poetry the uses of Renaissance concepts of mythology, poetic style, theories of love, primitivism, and iconological traditions....