The tragic fate of the millenary personality of Catalonia has rarely been fully appreciated abroad. Since the early eighteenth century its national voice has been submerged and fractured by a centralist state intent on its arbitrary, unitarian vision of a homogenized Spain. Catalan difference has emerged sporadically in the persons of such irrepressible geniuses as Gaudi, Dali, Miro and Bigas Luna but, in the configuration of modern Europe, the relentless inevitability of the unified state has imposed and re-imposed its singular cultural voice. The present volume attempts to equip the...

Este proyecto explora el papel del teatro lopesco en la construccion del 'yo' colectivo nacional. Se analizan la imagen de Espana y de los espanoles creada por Lope mediante una constante manipulacion de la historia patria, asi como los posibles efectos de la propagacion de esta imagen durante el siglo XVII.

This book is the first major study of one of Spain's most celebrated younger novelists, Belen Gopegui, whose work stands apart from other writers of her generation for its uncompromising focus on the social function of literature. Gopegui's social commitments find expression in her concern for solidarity and collective projects. These become more radical over time in response to a disenchantment with the evolution of the left in Spain and to the global impact of the capitalist economic system, giving rise to increasingly interventionist narrative strategies. The core theme of solidarity is...

This book proposes a new way of tracing the history of the Early Modern Spanish novel through the prism of literary continuation. It identifies and examines the Golden Age narratives that invented the sequel and the narrative genres that the sequel in turn invented. The author explores the rivalries between apocryphal and authorized sequelists that forged modern notions of authorship and authorial property. The book also defines the sequel's forms and functions, filling a major gap in literary theory in general and Peninsular literary studies in particular. Notably, the author demonstrates...

Completed shortly before Jorge Manrique's death in 1479, the Coplas por la muerte de su padre is arguably the most famous poem in the Spanish language. Since its first circulation in the same era, the text has occupied a prominent place in the Spanish literary tradition, becoming, along with its author, a cultural icon. This book explores the ways in which successive generations of readers and scholars have engaged with the poem. It also contextualizes the Coplas, Manrique's life, and his enduring reputation. The book is divided into four chapters. The first provides information about the...

This is the first extended, English-language study to focus exclusively on the fiction of Juan Rulfo in over twenty years. It contains innovative analyses of a selection of short stories from Rulfo's collection, El llano en llamas (1953). It also examines in great depth two of the main characters of Pedro Paramo (1955), Rulfo's masterpiece and only novel. The book shows how Rulfo's works can be read as exercises in irony directed against the rhetoric of post-Revolutionary Mexican governments. It also demonstrates the relevance of certain legacies of colony in Rulfo's use of irony. Successive...

This book explores the ways in which Ovid's poem, Metamorphoses, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, use magical devices to construct their literary realities.

Las mayores innovaciones poeticas del Siglo de Oro dependen en buena medida de la teorizacion en torno al concepto de los generos literarios y de la experimentacion y cambios a los que estos fueron sometidos. El paso del siglo XVI al XVII se caracteriza por un dinamico momento de transicion en la evolucion de las formas esteticas. Este volumen de estudios, que contiene articulos escritos por algunos de los mas prestigiosos siglodoristas en el ambito internacional, ofrece un analisis abarcador de las formas poeticas de esta epoca. Estos trabajos contextualizan las obras hispanas en relacion...

El presente libro estudia el Teatro Panico de Fernando Arrabal, un conjunto de textos concebidos durante los primeros anos del autor en Paris, entre 1957 y 1966. Escritas en el momento de mayor auge de la vanguardia, las obras vehiculan una teatralidad radicalmente innovadora cuya piedra angular la constituye el lenguaje ceremonial. La ceremonia panica que subyace a toda esa dramaturgia es objeto de un profundo analisis a la luz de Le Panique, texto programatico del propio Arrabal en que el autor identifica los tres conceptos que desencadenan la creacion artistica: memoria, azar y...

Eca de Queiros' work has primarily been studied within the context of French literature and culture. This book presents a different Eca. Focusing on the years that he lived in Paris, it demonstrates how the periodicals he himself conceived and edited were modeled on dozens of Victorian ones such as the Contemporary Review, the Review of Reviews or the Idler, as well as on some American ones such as the Forum, the Arena, and the North American Review. This book shows us an Eca who is undeniably an Anglophile, an Eca long seduced by the diversity and originality of English thought, an Eca...