The Novels of Jacinto Octavio Picón

Los indices de libros prohibidos fueron un instrumento capital de represion de la cultura escrita, pero no el unico. Este volumen se propone llevar a cabo un acercamiento a la historia literaria espanola de los siglos XVI y XVII que atiende, sobre todo, al clima intelectual de recelo ante la lectura y a los modos de control de los manuscritos e impresos. Los estudios aqui reunidos evaluan el impacto censorio en los generos mas importantes de la literatura y el pensamiento aureos: en el teatro, el poema lirico, la ficcion sentimental, la literatura obscena, la literatura espiritual, la...

"Although there are other works on the linguistic interactions between the English and Spanish languages inside the Cuban community in the Greater Miami area, this book is an all encompassing study that lets us see where the language stands today, using recent trends that also let us project what will occur to the Spanish language in the near future.. At the same time, the book offers a clear picture, using current statistics, of what the Cuban community in Miami has accomplished in just four decades."

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.

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,...