¿Por qué narrar? Cuentos contados y cuentos por contar

En diciembre de 2004, Paco Ignacio Taibo II y el Subcomandante Marcos empezaron a publicar en el periódico mexicano La Jornada una novela por entregas titulada Muertos incómodos. El proyecto confirma la vocación literaria del portavoz del Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, vocación y talento que ya se habían manifestado en los comunicados de la guerrilla. Kristine Vanden Berghe procede a una lectura detenida de los relatos incluidos por Marcos en dichos comunicados y reunidos posteriormente en los libros Relatos de el Viejo Antonio (1998) y Don Durito de la Lacandona (1999). La ...

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....

This study examines the cardinal points of Goytisolo's work, the tetralogy Antagonia, and explores his experimentation with multiple techniques. Following a postmodernist/poststructuralist approach, it focuses upon the metaphorical meaning of the labyrinthine structure. The book analyzes the therapeutic qualities that the narrators/protagonists find in their experiences as writers, and also the roles played by various readers, be these real or fictitious. It also examines Goytisolo's deft articulation of straightforward exposition with parody and his criticism of Catalan society.

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...