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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,...

Los bebés animales son muy diferentes, pero a todos les gusta dar siempre un beso a su madre antes de ir a dormir.

Las eternas “Fábulas de Bidpai”, reunidas hace unos 2.000 años en el Panchatantra traducidas desde Etiopía hasta China , y que inspiraron a autores tan diversos como Esopo, La Fontaine, Llull, y Chaucer, han sido retomadas por Ramsay Wood quien las vuelve a contar con un lenguaje moderno y divertido, respetuoso y energético.

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...