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"An historical and theoretical literary study of three Latin American women writers, Refugio Barragâan of Mexico, Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera of Peru, and Ana Roquâe of Puerto Rico. Examines how these novelists subversively rewrote womanhood vis áa visthe prescribed comportment for women during a conservative era"--Provided by publisher.
La progresiva aparición de artículos escritos por mujeres en la prensa periódica del reinado de Isabel II en España (1843-1868) es uno de los fenómenos socio-literarios más significativos de la época, pues comienza a sentar las bases para una futura profesionalización de la literatura escrita por mujeres en nuestro país.
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Dire word of the cultural threat of the lowbrow goes back at least to the ancient Greeks, and yet, Stephanie Sieburth suggests, no division between "high" and "low" culture will stand up to logical scrutiny. Why, then, does the opposition persist? In this book Sieburth questions the terms of this perennial debate and uncovers the deep cultural, economic, and psychological tensions that lead each generation to reinvent the distinction between high and low. She focuses on Spain, where this opposition plays a special role in notions of cultural development and where leading writers have often made the relation of literature to mass culture the theme of their novels. Choosing two historical mome...