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Importantísima y abundante en la historia de la literatura española del presente siglo es la producción creativa y ensayística de los escritores fascistas desde el final de los años veinte hasta la llamada «transición». En efecto, tras su victoria en la guerra civil, todos ellos tuvieron a su disposición, en su papel de intelectuales orgánicos, los distintos periódicos y revistas, las cadenas radiofónicas, las editoriales, privadas o estatales, y aun el terreno acotado de las cátedras, la Academia y la política directa, lo cual permitió a muchos de ellos irse adaptando...

Childhood is a fundamental theme in the works of Ana Maria Matute, and also one of the key issues for the study of the aesthetic narrative of the writer. This thesis presents an analysis of the image of childhood in the works of Matute written for adults, observed in two distinct literary contexts: that of the realistic novels and of the fantastic works. This division also corresponds, though not mathematically, to the two creative periods of the writer, so that the continuity and evolution of both the theme and the aesthetic techniques throughout the author's entire literary career can be...

Although the three authors studied, Ana Maria Matute, Carmen Martin Gaite, and Esther Tusquets, are sophisticated intellectuals, they have chosen fairy tales and texts from other marginalized genres originally for female consumption (such as the novela rosa and the Hollywood women's picture) as the major intertexts in their novels for adults as well as in their fictions for children. Against the backdrop feminist theory and recent critical studies of fairy tales and children's literature, Solino studies the works of these authors as "gendered texts." Solino's book opens with a chapter that...

Reescribir la violencia defiende la relevancia de las narraciones de la memoria para otorgar nuevas significaciones históricas al conflicto armado colombiano. El ensayo analiza la obra de escritoras que han vertido historias personales, tanto propias como ajenas, en distintos cauces de expresión, desde el periodismo a la ficción.