Ensayos semióticos: teoría, mito, literatura

Angelina's annoyance at having to take her little cousin Henry to the fair turns into friendship after a day filled with adventures and surprises.

"As much as in other countries, there is a bildungsroman novel in Spanish America like the ones of Güiraldes, Vargas Llosa, and Pacheco. However, less studied is the same genre of novel written by women. Examines growing pains and search for freedom in a patriarchal society in the works of Elena Poniatowska, Rosario Castellanos, Claribel Alegría, Rosario Ferré, and Beatriz Guido. Interesting contribution to the growing body of studies on these writers"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

The central component of this study is an index of the numerous motifs through which topoi of the text as symbol are articulated in the religious poetry, sermons, and sacramental plays of Golden Age Spain. Paired with the index is an anthology of the texts on which the book is based. In her introduction, Louise Salstad discusses the transmission and transformation of the topoi as they appear in the Old and New Testaments, classical literature, church writings, and medieval texts, and she considers the influence of the contemporary milieu on the shaping of these motifs. The book also includes...

Esta edición representa la ocasión de evaluar y difundir los resultados de las diferentes investi-gaciones, plantear nuevas posibilidades de proyectos y colaboraciones entre diferentes univer-sidades e investigadores, y finalmente crear Redes Internacionales de cooperación científico-técnica y de innovación. Uno de los objetivos específicos que la obra se propone es re-flexionar sobre textos de autores y autoras del pasado y utilizarlos como herramientas para pro-fundizar en temas relacionados con la igualdad cultural entre hombres y mujeres, y sobre cuestiones como la violencia en...