Una posición ante la vida

Antolog a de ensayos sobre la discusi n en torno a la cr tica literaria feminista y la especificidad de sta, cuestionan aspectos como la relaci n de cada sujeto -escritor, lector- con el poder, el lenguaje y el significado; atienden minuciosamente los discursos y las teor as literarias desarrollados con rigor en el marco de referencia de las feministas y resaltan, adem s, los v nculos entre textualidad y sexualidad, g nero y cultura, identidad y poder.

El rasgo interdisciplinario de los estudios literarios de nuestro tiempo ocasiona que sean cada vez más escasas las lecturas en donde la literatura es la base de la argumentación. En los textos que reúne La fiesta del nacimiento de nuevos sentidos. Ensayo sobre narrativa latinoamericana, se ve que no se trata de renunciar a esas otras disciplinas, sino de darles el lugar que les corresponde en los estudios literarios, de tal suerte que, para el crítico, la referencia histórica no invalida el texto de la novela, las modas teóricas no sustituyen el placer de leer, y la sólida...

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...

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....