The Lost Rib: Female Characters in the Spanish-American NovelThis study focuses on three basic questions: (1) Why is the Spanish-American novel nearly devoid of memorable female protagonists? (2) How do the novels portray their female characters? and (3) Why do even those novels whose titles promise female protagonists ultimately focus on other topics and characters? |
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... understand , for to his reading public , freedom cannot be found in captivity . From , the beginning , then , one must recognize that the language Cova is using ( a language used in large part to describe women and nature ) is not at ...
... understand , for to his reading public , freedom cannot be found in captivity . From , the beginning , then , one must recognize that the language Cova is using ( a language used in large part to describe women and nature ) is not at ...
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... understand the basic conflict as that between civilization and nature or barbarism is not only to misread the texts but also to suggest a primordial or natural quality in something which is already unquestionably supplement , perverted ...
... understand the basic conflict as that between civilization and nature or barbarism is not only to misread the texts but also to suggest a primordial or natural quality in something which is already unquestionably supplement , perverted ...
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... understand blindness as a metaphoric inability or unwillingness to see and understand the source of the problem as in Agata's case . In many ways , Todo verdor perecerá is a dramatization of the point made by Dworkin — that by filling ...
... understand blindness as a metaphoric inability or unwillingness to see and understand the source of the problem as in Agata's case . In many ways , Todo verdor perecerá is a dramatization of the point made by Dworkin — that by filling ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
Reading the Writing in Jorge Isaacss María | 19 |
In Mans Image Created Doña Bárbara | 38 |
Copyright | |
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