Ideología y texto en El Cuento semanal, 1907-1912

El lector tiene entre manos un libro que va de lo general a lo particular; de las visiones panorámicas de la literatura venezolana del siglo XX a los análisis de obras específicas. Rafael Arráiz Lucca estudia los géneros literarios en su trayectoria cronológica y, también, aborda sus desarrollos desde observatorios temáticos centrales: la ciudad, la muerte, la relación entre literatura e imagen. "Literatura venezolana del siglo XX" ofrece una revisión analítica de una centuria entera y se detiene en la obra ensayística de Uslar Pietri, Grases, Nuño, Francisco Rivera; en la...

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...

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 ...

Eamonn Wall arrived in the United States in the 1980s as part of a wave of young, educated immigrants who became known as the "New Irish." In this book he comments on his own experiences and those of his generation, who identify as much with contemporary ethnic and immigrant America as they do with the long-settled Irish American community. Wall's starting point is the now-closed Sin-é Café in New York's East Village, which was a hangout in the early 1990s for expatriate Irish musicians, actors, and writers. He comments on the poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs of both the New Irish and...