Psicología literaria.

Este no es un libro más sobre dietas y fitness, sino el resultado de una búsqueda obsesiva durante más de una década. Timothy Ferriss invirtió más de doscientos cincuenta mil dólares para probar consigo mismo cada moda, dieta, suplemento y entrenamiento que encontró para identificar las pocas cosas que realmente funcionan con el menor gasto de tiempo y esfuerzo. Más de cien expertos lo ayudaron en su busca, incluyendo médicos, científicos de la NASA, atletas olímpicos y especialistas clandestinos. Ahora, más de doscientos hombres y mujeres se entre dieciocho y setenta años han...

Kids love to be asked questions almost as much as they love to ask them. And asking is important--parents know the value of having meaningful conversations with their kids. In this book you will find the funny answers that Gianni Rodari found when he asked children questions about animals.

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...

This book analyzes the theoretical aspects of specific humoristic techniques in Gabriel Garcia Marquez. These techniques employ ranges from the use of explicit jokes, hyperbole or textual and cultural carnival, and literary resources such as irony, parody and ambiguity.