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Lorca's 'Romance sonámbulo': The Desirability of Non-Disclosure
To overlook the claim of Lorca's poem to independence, founded upon the simultaneous fusion of lyric and narrative romance modes, is to deprive it of the consequent plurality of meaning to which the poet is alluding. It also ignores the strong possibility that the poem is concerned with the process of not telling rather than telling. Indeed, the poem is a creative response to the restrictions imposed upon it by the undesirability of disclosure.
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Tirso de Molina and the Androgyne: El Aquiles and La dama del olivar
Examines Tirso's exploitation of male to female cross dressing in El Aquiles, and attempts to locate an origin for his variants of androgyny in La dama del olivar; concludes that Tirso's outlook on gender and sexuality derives from his intellectual formation within the Order of Mercy.
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'Comprendí. Pero no explico'. Revelation and concealment in Lorca's Canciones
Lorca's veiled treatment of homosexual love in Canciones
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The Incubus and I: Unbalancing Acts in Moix's Julia
Discusses Ana Maria Moix's semiautobiographical first novel, illuminating how the author treats the protagonist's repressively bourgeois upbringing in Barcelona during the Franco era, her abnormally emotional dependence upon her mother, their sporadically intimate relationship, and Julia's consequent tendencies towards lesbianism and fears of heterosexual contacts.
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Confession in La Regenta: The Secular Sacrament
In its representation of confession, La Regenta relentlessly uncovers desire, that core of subjectivity that inevitably disturbs the truth value of the narrative produced. To the extent that it examines the troubling relationships between language and desire, confession and sexuality, narration and seduction, the novel anticipates contemporary psychoanalytic and semiotic theory.
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Tyrants and Trash: Sex, Class and Culture in La casa de los espíritus
This study of Isabel Allende's novel La casa de los espiritus, defends her work from the criticism of mainstreamism. Argues that Allende represents the supposedly trashy world of women, peasants and popular culture in such a way as to challenge the official tyrannies of patriarchy, capitalism and cultural supremacism, and communicate a clear and powerful message of love.
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