This article will present an analysis on the subject of the fragmentation of the beloved’s body that the lover does in his romantic speech. For this, it will take as a central axis the case of the novel Los Jardines Secretos ...

The following study analyzes two letters written in 1563 by the Spanish conqueror and peace-maker Juan Vasquez de Coronado in light of two general aspects: the first, a map taken from the book Garcimuñoz la ciudad que nunca ...

The contemporary American literary production constitutes a space for the subjects identity (des) configuration and the collapse of the cultural-imaginary speech. This premise requires search and constant re‐signifying. ...

Classic rhetoric offers different principles for epideictic and deliberative discourse. This paper applies them to understand the role of female body in some misogynistic poems of Medieval Age from an argumentative point of view.

The Ṛg Veda is the oldest literary work in India. It consists of a collection of 1028 religious hymns, ordered in 10 books, whose composition dates back to approximately 1500 B.C., with the arrival of the Indo-Europeans ...

In the framework of research journey "Literary Representations of the Body", the objective of this article on the novel El infierno verde, of José Marín Cañas, is to demonstrate how the human body is represented in the ...

This study analyzes the formal and discursive strategies through which two fantasy texts by Mexican Alberto Chimal are built, as their specific characteristics are pointed out. The behavior of protagonists is highlighted ...

In this approach to the novel Impuesto a la carne (2010) from the Chilean writer Diamela Eltit I analyze, from a gender perspective, the irruption of an anti-Oedipal and anarchic writing experimented by a mother and her ...

Although rituals concerning the decoration of the body as a cannibalistic ritual might go unnoticed by the Eurocentric viewer because they do not have the capacity to observe in them neither practices of etiquette nor uses ...