Poéticas espectatoriales en Hispanoamérica y Brasil (1800–1847)

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,...

Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this comparative study of a selection of The Arabian Nights stories in a cross-cultural context, brings together a number of disciplines and subject areas to examine the workings of narrative. It predominantly focuses on the ways in which the Arabian Nights have transformed as its stories have travelled across historical eras, cultures, genres and media. Departing from the familiar approaches of influence and textual studies, this book locates its central inquiry in the theoretical questions surrounding the workings of ideology, genre and genre ideology ...

Reviewers have celebrated this important volume as the first comprehensive critical appraisal of the 1997 Nobel Prize laureate for literature. The volume features an introduction, an extensive annotated bibliography, an index, and Aleixandre's Nobel Prize acceptance lecture.

Susana es feliz, muy feliz. Después de una gran soledad, encuentra a un hombre que le hace vivir los mejores días de su vida. Poco antes de un viaje de su pareja a Estados Unidos, decide presentárselo a sus padres que le reciben con alegría. Sin embargo, esta visita lo cambia todo, todo es distinto, nadie parece ser quien debiera ser... Morir es como un cuento es una historia desgarrada y absoluta de amor. Una prueba de amor al límite, donde la vida y la muerte no importan, solo conseguir ese espacio de felicidad y erotismo de un cuerpo con otro. Pocos libros atrapan y seducen como este, ...