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From:Literature of Developing Nations for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Literature of Developing Nations (Vol. 1. )Kelly Winters is a freelance writer and has written for a wide variety of academic and educational publishers. In the following essay, she discusses feminist themes in The House of the Spirits. "Critics are terrible...
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From:Contemporary World Writers (2nd ed.)Isabel Allende broke into the ranks of the bestsellers with her first novel, La casa de los espíritus (The House of the Spirits), a book that confirmed the link between Latin American writing and the label “magic...
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From: Critical Approaches to Isabel Allende's Novels[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, Rehbein examines the order and content of the narrative in Eva Luna, showing the power of a storyteller to shape time and reality to suit her own needs as well as the needs of...
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From: The Encyclia: The Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters[(essay date 1990) In the following essay, Spanos examines the role of the main female character Casilda within the concepts of literary feminism in the short story "The Judge's Wife."] Isabel Allende has become...
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From: Women's Review of Books"Listen, Paula, I am going to tell you a story, so that when you wake up you will not feel so lost." With those simple, enchanted words, the Chilean novelist Isabel Allende begins Paula, a memoir of devastating passion...
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From: Romance Studies[(essay date December 2001) In the following essay, Lindsay provides a socio-psychoanalytic reading of "Niña perversa" in order to examine Allende's use of romantic conventions in her fiction.] In an entry on...
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From: Studies in Twentieth Century Literature[(essay date Winter 1995) In the following essay, Diamond-Nigh examines Allende's treatment of Latin-American literary history in Eva Luna.] In the beginning was the Word. And in the end. The opening lines of Isabel...
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From: San Francisco Review of Books[(review date May-June 1995) In the following review, Schwirtz observes several of Allende's familiar recurring themes in Paula.] In Chilean author Isabel Allende's life, two tragic twists of fate marked sharply...
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From:Children's Literature Review (Vol. 99. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:El embajador (play) 1972*Civilice a su troglodita: Los impertinentes de Isabel Allende (essays) 1974La casa de los espíritus [The House of the Spirits] (novel) 1982De amor y de sombra [Of Love and...
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From: Critical Approaches to Isabel Allende's Novels[(essay date 1991) In the following excerpt, Rehbein maintains that Allende manipulates language and the narrator's voice in Eva Luna to represent a changing reality in the narrative.] Cuando escribi Eva Luna, por...
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From: Hispanófila[(essay date 1998) In the following essay, Pinet focuses on the figure of the dog Barrabás in Allende’s novel. Though it is unclear at the beginning whether the dog might be merely a trivial detail, Pinet argues that his...
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From: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies[(essay date June 2001) In this essay, Frick centers on the nonlinear, circular structure of La casa de los espíritus, revealing how the four main female characters utilize storytelling and their memories of the past to...
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From: Antípodas[(essay date 95) In the following essay, Clancy describes the influence of García Márquez’s Cien años de soledad on The House of the Spirits, both of which employ magical realism to convey the tumultuous history of a...
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From: Journal of Modern Literature[(essay date summer 2004) In the following essay, Gough investigates Allende's use of voyeuristic storytelling in her works, claiming that these voyeuristic episodes add to the artistry of Allende's texts by furthering...
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From: Locating Latin American Women Writers: Cristina Peri Rossi, Rosario Ferré, Albalucía Angel, and Isabel Allende[(essay date 2003) In the following essay, Lindsay examines how Allende has positioned herself as a female writer of romance, employing a theoretical framework informed by the ideas of the psychoanalysts Jacques Lacan...
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From: Conversations with Isabel Allende[(essay date 1999) In the following interview, originally published in 1984, Agosín describes The House of the Spirits as a double text relating the story of the Trueba family as well as a political history of Chile....
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From: Isabel Allende[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Levine analyzes the narrative structure in Of Love and Shadows, claiming that although the novel contains elements of a variety of genres, it closely resembles what the critic...
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From: Splintering Darkness: Latin American Women Writers in Search of Themselves[(essay date 1990) In the following essay, López Morales contends that the works of Bombal and fellow Chilean-born female writers Isabel Allende and Lucía Guerra are subversive because they reject the patriarchal...
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From: A Companion to Magic Realism[(essay date 2005) In the following essay, Swanson studies Allende's City of the Beasts to examine the effectiveness of her use of magical realism within a children's literature format.] The Tension of the Magical and...
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From: In the Feminine Mode: Essays on Hispanic Women Writers[(essay date 1990) In the following essay, Levine notes that in the same way Blanca reinterprets traditional stories for her daughter, Alba, Allende reconceived a patriarchal historical reality to include the feminine,...