The Lost Rib: Female Characters in the Spanish-American NovelBucknell University Press, 1985 - 227 sider This 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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... thousands if not hun- dreds of thousands of readers , the image of the female presented cannot be completely alien to the image held by much of the reading public . It is presumed that readers in large numbers do not continue to read ...
... thousands if not hun- dreds of thousands of readers , the image of the female presented cannot be completely alien to the image held by much of the reading public . It is presumed that readers in large numbers do not continue to read ...
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... thousands of love stories told in count- less languages . My interest in it stems not from the story itself , not from what it overtly tells us about the epoch in which it was written ( its costum- brismo ) , nor from the character ...
... thousands of love stories told in count- less languages . My interest in it stems not from the story itself , not from what it overtly tells us about the epoch in which it was written ( its costum- brismo ) , nor from the character ...
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... the female , that is , the queen , was not a member of the dramatis personae of this theater / game during some one thousand years . But here perhaps lies her importance . As any psychologist would tell us , what is not 178 The Lost Rib.
... the female , that is , the queen , was not a member of the dramatis personae of this theater / game during some one thousand years . But here perhaps lies her importance . As any psychologist would tell us , what is not 178 The Lost Rib.
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Acknowledgments | 7 |
Reading the Writing in Jorge Isaacss María | 19 |
In Mans Image Created Doña Bárbara | 38 |
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