Libros de Literatura extranjera, página 3 de 62

"Cuídese de ciertos libros, pues muerden a los lectores que se sienten autorizados a saberlo todo y se acercan a un texto, al que sea, con el guiño del co-conspirador o del amante potencial". Con esta advertencia Doris Sommer nos inicia en la aventura de leer a los narradores minoritarios que saben defender su particularismo con artes pasadas por alto hasta ahora. Ellos inventan una gama de estrategias para seducir al lector que pretende comprenderlo todo y para dejarlo insatisfecho. Los abrazos y los rechazos marcan el performance de sujetos apasionantes que no se entregan totalmente, ponen barreras retóricas con el fin de recordar a los lectores curiosos que las diferencias culturales crean asimetrías y que nadie puede ni debe saber lo suficiente para hablar por el otro.

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Highly original and magnificent in scope, Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination discovers the roots of English cultural history in the Anglo-Saxon period, and traces it through the centuries. What does it mean to be English? This dazzling book demonstrates that a quintessentially English quality can be discovered in all forms of English culture, not only in literature but also in painting, music, architecture, philosophy and science. Just as London: The Biography guided the reader through the capital city with a mixture of narrative and theme, so Albion, employing the same techniques, engages the reader with stories and surprises - From Beowulf to King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, via Chaucer and Shakespeare, to the Bronte sisters, Alice through the Looking Glass and Lord of the RingsWitty, provocative and anecdotal, this is Peter Ackroyd at his most brilliant and exuberant.

Allusion, Identity and. Community in Recent British Writing builds on an eclectic theoretical framework combining insights from literary stylistics and pragmatics, traditional rhetoríc, imagology and recent polítícal and phílosophícal debates about identity in order to show how allusion - literary or otherwise - can play a part in the construction of identity for the sake of self-presentation. Of particular interest is the way allusion may be used as a strategy by outsíders - fictional and real - when seeking to be admitted into different kinds of community, from literary élítes to national polities. Close readings of works by Salman Rushdie, Seamus Heaney, Caryl Phillips, Bridget O'Connor and Zadie Smith demonstrate allusion's capacity to broker acceptance and generate empathy, to define models of identity and, in some cases, to backfire. By emphasízíng individual autonomy in the process of self-expression, Allusion, Identity and Community in Recent British Writing also redeems the subject from the more repressive régimes of over-deterministic theory, while ultimately claiming that the very difference which necessitates the negotiation of identity through such strategies as the deployment of allusion is also the basic precondition of communication and community building, two activities in which literature is inalienably engaged

American Literature after 1900 is a text-book especially designed for students of ¿Literatura Norteamericana Contemporánea¿ ¿to be taken by fifth-year students of ¿Filología Inglesa¿ at UNED. This text-book offers a survey of the main authors, ideas and styles observed in twentieth-century American literature, as it relates them to the two paramount cultural moments of the period covered: Modernism and Postmodernism. It also comprises reading and analytical strategies for those literary texts required by the course. In addition to a number of self-assessing activities to test the student¿s progress, it encompasses discussion questions to expand the book¿s contents and associate them with such non-literary expressions as filmmaking.

Los veinticinco años de experiencia como profesora de la autora en la UNED, hacen que este libro esté orientado fundamentalmente a la educación a distancia.Los capítulos mantienen prácticamente la misma estructura a lo largo de toda la obra. Cada tema se divide en cuatro partes:- Una primera donde se analizan individualmente los autores a traves de sus biografias y contextos histoticos.- Un texto, en prosa o verso, con notas al pie sobre las palabras o giros gramaticales que presentan mas dificultad en su traduccion del ingles.- Cuestiones de autoevaluacion.- Otras cuestiones preparatorias mas amplias.En algunos casos se añaden recuadros con sugerencias de estudio