Diccionario Akal de Términos Literarios

Richly informed by contemporary sociological theory, Manuel de Jesus Hernandez El colonialismo interno en la narrativa chicana distinguishes between the assimilationist and the internal colonialism models of Mexican American society and culture. The author applies the internal colonialism model for the first time to the representation of Chicanos found in their narrative literature. Among the categories of narrative discussed are the espacio pochista, the migrante, and the indigenista. The book is a signal advance in the sociology of Chicano narrative and its application to significant...

El presente libro es un estudio de teoría literaria que se ocupa de la estructura textual de la narración mediante la aplicación de un instrumental proporcionado por uno de los últimos desarrollos de la teoría lingüística a partir de la semántica filosófica: la teoría de los mundos posibles inscrita en la lingüística textual. Asumida, en este libro, por la poética lingúística dicha aportación, el texto narrativo es considerado como un conjunto de mundos que corresponden a los diferentes personajes de aquél, existiendo en cada uno de estos mundos diversos submundos: submundos...

Una nueva serie de ensayos de personajes y situaciones maravillosas de la pluma brillante de William Ospina

"Jesus Torrecilla explores the question of how societies considered to be marginal perceive their relationship with those that are hegemonic. Focusing on the works of Mariano Jose de Larra, Benito Perez Galdos, and Miguel de Unamuno, he argues that the inner tension created between the foreign models and the writers' own literary tradition explains two of the most important characteristics of Spanish literature: its belatedness with respect to European trends and, more generally, its traditionalism, which, says Torrecilla, is a reaction not against modernity as such but against modernity as a ...