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Si yo fuera un hombre Author: Perkins Gilman, Charlotte
Publisher: El Nadir
isbn: 9788493640446
Place of publication:  Spain
Year: 2008
Pages: 105
DDC: 823
CDU: 841.4
Language: Espagnol

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Los relatos agrupados bajo el título, Si yo fuera un hombre, componen un puñado del mejor exponente del trabajo y la idea que mantuvo la vida de Charlotte P. Gilman: preocupación por la situación de las mujeres, sus relaciones con los hombres y la necesidad de arrostrar el propio destino. Las protagonistas suelen ser mujeres que en un momento determinado optan con voluntad y decisión por imponer un cambio radical en su vida, haciéndose sus dueñas. Tomando como punto de partida, las dificultades de las mujeres para encontrar su propio espacio, amas de casa, madres agotadas, viudas, mujeres abandonadas o engañadas, tienen en común el ímpetu con el que resuelven sus problemas. La sutileza del lenguaje, la delicada forma que Gilman elige para contar sus historias, constituye un aliciente más para leer estos cuentos, traducidos por primera vez al español.

The anglo-caribbean migration novel: writing from the diaspora Author: López Ropero, M. L.
Publisher: Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alicante
isbn: 8479087870
Place of publication:  Spain
Year: 2004
Pages: 216
Language: Anglais

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Toronto, New York and London have become the new frontiers of Anglophone Caribbean literature, one of the most vibrant and prolific world literatures written in English. Drawing on new ethnographic trends, The Anglo-Caribbean Migration Novel: Writing from the Diaspora approaches Caribbean literature as a multi-centred diaspora. This book highlights the distinctiveness of the different branches of the Caribbean literary diaspora in the Anglo-American world through writers such as Samuel Selvon, Caryl Phillips, Paule Marshall, Austin Clarke and Dionne Brand. The volume is a response to the need for a deeper focus on the articulation of diversity within the Caribbean diaspora and its imaginative renderings. Lourdes López-Ropero lectures in the English Department of the University of Alicante and has published several works in the field of Postcolonial Literature.

The Grand And The Fair: Poe's Landscape Aesthetics And Pictoral Techniques Author: P. Ljungquist, Kent
Publisher: Scripta Humanistica
isbn: 0916379205
Place of publication:  United States
Year: 1984
Pages: 216
Language: Anglais

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An examination of Poe's use of the conventions of the sublime and the picturesque, with a brief history of both traditions as they were developed in eighteenth-century America. "...an informative and provocative study." -Glen A. Omans, Poe Studies Association Newsletter. "This is a book filled with new insights into individual tales and poems by Poe. ...It also provides a solid theoretical background for them." - Donald Barlow Stauffer, University of Mississippi Studies in English.

The Tree Surgeon's Gift Author: Lynskey, Edward C.
Publisher: Scripta Humanistica
isbn: 0916379752
Place of publication:  United States
Year: 1990
Pages: 58
Language: Anglais

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"Edward Lynskey has given the force of his fine talent and the strong faith of his poetry, to the people of this world... And the poems bountifully reward his readers." -Fred Chappell, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. "It is good to have these poems. Lynskey is well worth reading, and the best poems in this volume leave the reader looking forward to the next." -O. B. Hardison, Small Press Review. "The title poems reveal Lynskey's gift in what he does best: seeing beauty in the ugly, putting the job, the ordinary work, within a context of wonder and ritual." -Shelby Stephenson, The Pilot, North Carolina.

Unamuno y Greene. Un estudio comparativo Author: Alba Pelayo, A.
Publisher: Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alicante
isbn: 8479086807
Place of publication:  Spain
Year: 1989
Pages: 212
Language: Espagnol

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San Manuel Bueno, mártir, tal vez la novela mejor construida de Unamuno, es motivo de comparación en este libro con el drama de Graham Greene, The Potting Shed. En ambas obras se expone la difícil situación existencial de dos sacerdotes que, por motivos diversos, ejercen su ministerio sin fe. El presente libro es un estudio ampliamente documentado donde se ofrece el enfoque crítico y el análisis minucioso de las vivencias, sentimientos y experiencias por las que atraviesan Don Manuel y William Callifer. Ante esa especie de "noche oscura" su respuesta es diferente. La novela de Unamuno se centra prácticamente en la figura del protagonista, a quien el pueblo de Valverde de Lucerna considera santo y cuyo secreto sólo es conocido por Lázaro y la narradora ficcional. Graham Greene añade otros elementos, incluido el ingrediente del psicoanálisis para incidir en el tema central de la soledad de sus personajes.

Voces proféticas: relatos de escritoras estadounidenses de entresiglos (XIX-XX) Author: Alberola Crespo, María Nieves; Manuel Cuenca, Carme
Publisher: Universitat Jaume I
isbn: 9788480214568
Place of publication:  Spain
Year: 2003

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Una cuidada selección de nueve autores norteamericanos que abrazan un espectro tan cronológico como racial: Harper y Dunbar-Nelson son afroamericanos, Sui Sin Far es asiaticoamericano, Zitkala-Sä es india americana y el resto son blancas: Davis, Chopin, Gilman, Wharton i Cather se presentan en esta obra. Una aproximación a sus biografías enmarca estos relatos espontáneos y a la vez sofisticados que se enfrentan abiertamente o solapadamente con retos que aun hoy siguen vigentes.

We, the "other victorians" Author: Caporale Bizzini, S.
Publisher: Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alicante
isbn: 847908765X
Place of publication:  Spain
Year: 2003
Pages: 216
Language: Anglais

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The declaration of "the end of history", understood as the elimination of all fissures and social tensions, is one of the intellectual parameters which form the bases of contemporary neo-liberal culture. The aim of this collection is to question the notion of a cultural process whereby discourses are rewritten while being, at times, reinscribed in a context that has been emptied of any historical meaning. By relating the Foucauldian analysis of the technologies of the self to a dialectical understanding of Cultural History, this collection aims to bridge theory and practice. The essays included in this book aim to demonstrate how the heritage of Victorian thought is still alive in the formation of contemporary neo-liberal philosophy. For this reason, the authors analyse how 19th-century cultural production created and/or interpreted medical discourse, domesticity and gender or popular literature, and how we "the other Victorians" have used them not only to forge hegemony, but also to construct counterhegemonic discourses and discourses of resistance. Silvia Caporale-Bizzini is Senior Lecturer of English Literature in the Department of English Studies and Director of the Women's Studies Centre at Alicante University.