El intersticio como fundamento poético en la obra de Julio Cortázar

In the past decades, with the decline of the Grand Narratives and the subsequent need for new historical and political orientation, literary studies have been reflecting on the role of literature in the world. Together with Jacques Rancière—and in dialogue with Althusser, Foucault, or Fischer-Lichte—the present volume analyzes this political turn of literary studies.

A study of the relationship betwen court festivity and theatre in 16c Spain. Dr Ferrer Valls studies the relationship between court festivity and theatre in the sixteenth century, placing special emphasis on staging. She argues that throughout the reign of Philip II court spectacle perpetuates the complicated staging of traditional performances, but with greater emphasis on their dramatic aspects and on the use of music and song. In the first two decades of the seventeenth century, and above all in specific plays by Lope de Vega, court spectacles come to reflect also the influence of Italian...

Bodas de sangre is arguably the best-known work by the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers. A passionate story of family feud and tragic elopement is played out in the setting of a poor country village, building up to a dramatic ending full of the intensely poetic symbolism characteristic of Lorca.

La personalidad y la obra de Camilo José Cela es un intrincado territorio alumbrado por muchas luces y acechado por algunas sombras. Para su conocimiento será necesario establecer una rigurosa edición cronológica de sus escritos: un verdadero océano de singular riqueza en lo que atañe a la creación literaria, de gran envergadura en lo que se refiere a la cultura española de la segunda mitad del siglo XX y de ramificaciones sinuosas y diversas en lo que atañe a la dimensión biográfica. El perfil poliédrico del Premio Nobel se bosqueja en ocho capítulos y un estrambote que buscan...