Mark Twain, o el sentimiento trágico del humor

Estos dos volúmenes de ensayos tratan de diversos aspectos y autores de la literatura norteamericana, desde los orígenes puritanos hasta nuestros días. Desde la problemática de la posible elaboración de un canon literario norteamericano hasta, pasando por autores como Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Thoreau, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Sinclair Lewis, Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, J. D. Salinger, John Steinbeck y William Kennedy, se presenta una visión de esta literatura que tiene en cuenta los textos literarios dentro del desarrollo histórico, político y económico...

By insisting that women should be equal partners, Pardo Bazán problematically adopted the patriarchal binarism that assigns women to Nature and men to Culture, but she also subverted it by denying its supplemental relationship. Her astute choice and manipulation of masculine cultural models (Realism, not Romanticism; prose, not poetry; Castilian language, not Galician) ultimately won her--despite fierce opposition--inclusion in the Spanish national canon. Furthermore, the study of her thorny relations with emerging Galician nationalism shows that her exclusion from "Galician literature" was...

"The first major study on the works of the Mexican novelist, âAngeles Mastretta, demonstrating the rich complexity and range of the author's fiction and essays"--Provided by publisher.

Excerpt from Obras Completas del Doctor D. Manuel Mila y Fontanals, Catedratico Que Fue de Literatura en la Universidad de Barcelona, Vol. 4: Opusculos Literarios Viaje por la Rusia meridional y la Crimea, etc., por el principe Demidoff, traducido por D. J uan Cortada. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing...

Rapunzel, a young lady imprisoned by a wicked witch on top of a tower, decides to escape to find her prince charming.