Recently added articles from Atenea:
Sweet are the uses of tragedy: Death and the Maiden's 'almost Aristotelian' testimony.(Ensayo crítico)
Dec 01, 2005; ... In 1990, Chile began its rocky transition back to democracy after General Pinochet's regime relinquished most of its governing power. That same year, Ariel Dorfman returned home to Chile after seventeen years of exile and wrote Death and the Maiden, a play which confronts audiences with ...
"Otra vuelta de tuerca": "Silvia" como enigma y golem de palabras ...(Ensayo crítico)
Dec 01, 2005; ... En una entrevista, al hablar de su relación con lo lúdico, Cortázar expresa: <Pre> ... El juego, como lo juegan los niños o como trato de jugarlo yocomo escritor, corresponde a un arquetipo, viene desde muy adentro,del inconsciente colectivo, de la memoria de la ...
The conservative, the transgressive, and the reactionary: Ann Radcliffe's The Italian as a response to Matthew Lewis' The Monk.(Ensayo crítico)
Dec 01, 2005; ... It is widely recognized that there are two stages in the development of the Gothic. The first one established by Radcliffe, which was molded to popular favor, labeled "terror-Gothic" and/or "loyalist," considered "feminine," and drew its inspiration from French sensationalism and ...
The representation of leprosy and war in The Samurai's Garden.(Ensayo crítico)
Dec 01, 2005; ... In 1937, Japan invaded China. In that same year Sachi, a resident of the fictional leper village of Yamaguchi, Japan, returned to her hometown of Tarumi for the first time in forty years and told her story to Stephen Chan an outsider from China. The two seemingly unrelated events, one ...
"From celebration to rebellion to subversive submission": the problem of history and literary interpretation.(Ensayo crítico)
Dec 01, 2005; ... This book is the result of a necessarily incomplete study. I know in advance that its conclusion will be examined, discussed, and replaced by others, and I am glad of it. That is how history progresses and must progress. --Fernand Braudel (1) William Shakespeare's ...
Simplemente una ilusion: la realidad colonizada en las ultimas novelas de Emilio Diaz Valcarcel.(Ensayo crítico)
Dec 01, 2005; ... 1. Los manuscritos en Díaz Valcárcel, testimonio de la irrealidad Las novelas de Emilio Díaz Valcárcel a partir de Figuraciones en el mes de marzo (1972) e Inventario (1975) se construyen por medio de textos e imágenes de segundo grado (Genette 1989) cuya autenticidad queda ...
Nation and migration: emigration and exile in two Cuban films of the special period *.(Ensayo crítico)
Dec 01, 2005; ... In his introduction to The Cuban Filmography, 1897 Through 2001, Alfonso J. García Osuna poses the important question of how best to define the elusive term "Cuban film." Those critics who might place Cuban cinema in a completely separate category quite often see it merely as a foil to ...
The ache of Victorianism: L.P. Hartley and Kenneth Grahame.(Ensayo crítico)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Less than half a century ago, everything suggested that L.P. Hartley (1895-1972) would be remembered as a distinguished, but not great, English novelist, as well as a short story writer and literary reviewer. In 1925 he had established himself as a Jamesian novelist with Simonetta Perkins, ...
Mar, amor y muerte en Atardecer en el Atlantico.(Ensayo crítico)
Dec 01, 2005; ... El título del último poemario de Manuel Figueroa-Meléndez, Atardecer en el Atlántico, nos sitúa en un espacio múltiple y uno en el que el mar, la muerte y la vida no sólo remiten a fenómenos concretos y comprensibles para todos, sino que funcionan también como metáforas de la interioridad ...
Body as mentality in Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome.(Ensayo crítico)
Dec 01, 2005; ... In the introduction to Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton discusses her stylistic intention as an author to portray complex theory through relentlessly "simple" characters. Where "any attempt to elaborate and complicate their sentiments would have falsified the whole," the characters' ...
The female grotesque in contemporary American culture.
Dec 01, 2005; ... "If Barbie is a monster, she is our monster, our ideal." (Anne DuCille 565) Western culture's obsessive male gaze (Doane 180) seems always to have outlined the female body antagonistically: object of scopophilic desire and enigmatic vessel of life and death, sublime ...
Sonador.(Poema)
Dec 01, 2005; ... <Pre> SOÑADOR Es el inicio de la vidaes el palpitar de un nuevo seres el principio de la imaginaciónverdades que hay que reconocer. Existen sueños en mil de fantasíapensamientos que hay que lograrsueños en oír por cada realidady pensamientos que ...
Walter Jost. Rhetorical Investigations: Studies in Ordinary Language Criticism.(Reseña de libro)
Dec 01, 2005; ... Walter Jost. Rhetorical Investigations: Studies in Ordinary Language Criticism. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2004. 346 pp. The title of this book makes clear its focus on rhetoric but does not signal to the reader its equally important engagement ...