El universo de Maurice Sendak: una nueva manera de representar la infancia
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El concepto de literatura infantil se ha ido definiendo a lo largo del tiempo a través de propuestas de autores que han marcado una forma de entender el discurso literario dirigido a la infancia. Maurice Sendak es, sin duda, uno de esos autores, de tal modo que se le atribuye una suerte de «reinvención» de la literatura infantil. Tras establecer las bases sobre las que se asienta esta afirmación, se analizan desde esta perspectiva varias obras del autor, insistiendo particularmente en la metáfora como estrategia discursiva. La presencia de metáforas relacionadas con el ámbito de la comida constituye un elemento recurrente en la obra de Sendak, a manera de «intertexto restringido», en un sentido muy amplio.
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Abstract: The concept of Children’s Literature has been defined over time through proposals from authors who have made a way of understanding the literary discourse to children. Certainly, Maurice Sendak is one of those authors so he is attributed to a sort of «reinvention» of Children´s Literature. After establishing the basis on which this statement is based, we analyze –from this perspective– various works by the author, with particular emphasis on the metaphor as a discursive strategy. Thus the presence of related metaphors in the fields of food constitutes a recurring element in the work of Sendak, seen in a way as a «restricted intertextuality» in a very wide sense.
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