Academias morales de las Musas II

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.

Translated from the Latin. The original Latin versions were published in 1997 under the title: Chronica Hispana saeculi XIII (Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis; 73).

Relatos en los que la palabra, perfectamente conjugada en sus tres tiempos, pretérito, presente y futuro, es la principal protagonista para lograr la magia de la Literatura. A través de escenas del mismo realismo mágico, la autora refleja una realidad cotidiana capaz de atrapar el lector por su forma distinta de narrar y en la que dicha palabra, escrita con la sencillez a la que hace referencia el propio maestro Delibes, adquiere el protagonismo de obra literaria.

In this brilliant overview of parodic praxis in the Spanish-American novel during the years 1960-1985, Elzbieta SkPlodowska examines several aspects of parody: its role in the renovation of anachronistic forms of discourse (mock-epic) and the re-writing of the canon of the historical novel; its function in transgressing literary formulas (detective novel); its subversive quality in the counter-discourse of women writers; and the relation between parody, satire, irony, humor, and metafiction. This sound analysis of some twenty-five novels, carefully illustrated by works little treated in...