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Teoría de la narrativa
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 288

Teoría de la narrativa

Analiza la narrativa literaria, los géneros narrativos, el texto narrativo, los elementos del texto narrativo y las especificidades de la comunicación narrativa, con especial atención a los aportes del ámbito hispánico.

Forth and Back
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 193

Forth and Back

Forth and Back broadens the scope of Hispanic trans-Atlantic studies by shifting its focus to Spain’s trans-literary exchange with the United States at the end of the twentieth century. Santana analyzes the translation “boom” of U.S. literature that marked literary production in Spain after Franco’s death, and the central position that U.S. writing came to occupy within the Spanish literary system. Santana examines the economic and literary motives that underlay the phenomenon, as well as the particular socio-cultural appeal that U.S. “dirty realist” writers—which in Spain included authors as diverse as Charles Bukowski, Raymond Carver, and Bret Easton Ellis—held for Spaniard...

Policing Gender and Alicia Giménez Bartlett's Crime Fiction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 186

Policing Gender and Alicia Giménez Bartlett's Crime Fiction

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-03-03
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Alicia Giménez Bartlett’s popular crime series, written in Spanish and organized around the exploits of Police Inspector Petra Delicado and Deputy Inspector Fermin Garzon, is arguably the most successful detective series published in Spain during the previous three decades. Nina L. Molinaro examines the tensions between the rhetoric of gender differences espoused by the woman detective and the orthodox ideology of the police procedural. She argues that even as the series incorporates gender differences into the crime series formula, it does so in order to correct women, naturalize men’s authority, sanction social hierarchies, and assuage collective anxieties. As Molinaro shows, with the exception of the protagonist, the women characters require constant surveillance and modification, often as a result of men’s supposedly intrinsic protectiveness or excessive sexuality. Men, by contrast, circulate more freely in the fictional world and are intrinsic to the political, psychological, and economic prosperity of their communities. Molinaro situates her discussion in Petra Delicado’s contemporary Spain of dog owners, ¡Hola!, Russian cults, and gated communities.

Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Detective Fiction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 237

Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Detective Fiction

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-03-20
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  • Publisher: McFarland

The image of the hard-boiled private investigator from gritty pulp fiction, a terse and mysterious figure, has become increasingly universal as the detective novel crosses more and more borders. A booming genre in Latin America, Spain and other Hispanic cultures, detective fiction has transcended the limitations of its influences. Hispanic authors relatively new to the genre have published novels and series popular with the public, while a number of well-known writers have adapted the genre to reflect the concurrent globalization of modern society and the crimes within it. This volume presents a compilation of 11 critical essays on genero negro--contemporary detective fiction in the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian canon. Surveying the last twenty years, the text analyzes emerging trends in this rapidly evolving genre, as well as the mutations and innovations taking place within the style. The first section of the book is dedicated to the detective fiction of Spain and Portugal. The second section surveys works from Latin America and the United States, where topics touch on universal subjects like crime, identity and feminism.

A Companion to the Twentieth-century Spanish Novel
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 358

A Companion to the Twentieth-century Spanish Novel

The Spanish novel in a turbulent century.

Detecting Detection
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

Detecting Detection

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-06-14
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

Examines how modern fiction writers use the detective plot to enrich and complicate their narratives.

Handbook of Diachronic Narratology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1033

Handbook of Diachronic Narratology

This handbook brings together 42 contributions by leading narratologists devoted to the study of narrative devices in European literatures from antiquity to the present. Each entry examines the use of a specific narrative device in one or two national literatures across the ages, whether in successive or distant periods of time. Through the analysis of representative texts in a range of European languages, the authors compellingly trace the continuities and evolution of storytelling devices, as well as their culture-specific manifestations. In response to Monika Fludernik’s 2003 call for a "diachronization of narratology," this new handbook complements existing synchronic approaches that t...

Resisting Invisibility
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

Resisting Invisibility

Engaging with pre-feminist and male-authored crime literature, Resisting Invisibility offers a comparative reading of women's bodies as represented in Spanish crime literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Utilizing the twin concepts of visibility and invisibility, the book establishes a genealogy of differing viewpoints regarding women's positions in these narratives, before and after the birth of the modern Spanish female detective. This examination of the politics of female visibility expands our understanding of the aesthetic regimes that have governed the female body from the early phases of the genre's evolution. While most scholars understand the feminization of the ...

Memoria y novela. La narrativa de Antonio Soler
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 427

Memoria y novela. La narrativa de Antonio Soler

La Tesis Doctoral está compuesta por una parte teórica sobre las relaciones intrínsecas entre la memoria y la narrativa, y un estudio crítico dedicado a las novelas de Antonio Soler, donde la memoria es tanto sustento fundamental como componente inseparable. Presenta la biografía del autor y ofrece un estado de la cuestión de los estudios de sus obras. Analiza los sujetos de la memoria, la representación de la misma y, las funciones de la memoria autobiográfica involuntaria. Constituye una nueva mirada a las narrativas hechas de memorias, que no solo resultan significativas literariamente, sino también históricamente y culturalmente.

Contemporary Hispanic Crime Fiction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Contemporary Hispanic Crime Fiction

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-30
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  • Publisher: Springer

This study examines representations of the cityscape and of a so-called "new urban violence" in both detective-centered and detectiveless crime fiction produced in Spanish America and Spain during recent decades. It documents the emergence and permutations of this production as an index not only of local perceptions of contemporary urban experience and of a contemporary urban "ecology of fear," but also as a transnational index of the globalization of literary forms and markets. It centers on the inscription of urban space in novels set in the metropolitan centers of the Hispanic World: Mexico City, Bogota, Buenos Aires, and Barcelona.