Literatura y política

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.

La presente monografía de María José Alonso Veloso, que se suma a otros trabajos suyos sobre Quevedo, se centra en el estilo de “Terpsícore” y tiene como objetivo mostrar los mecanismos de que se sirvió el escritor para convertir en literatura culta y artificiosa formas tradicionales y populares.

A romance between a priest and a nun-in-training leads to her pregnancy and his suicide. She is Gabriella Harrison, daughter of parents who abandoned her to a convent. The affair leads to her expulsion and she becomes a writer.

La publicaciOn de la correspondencia de JuliAn del Casal (1863-1893) rescata una fuente inestimable, vedada por mAs de un siglo a lectores e investigadores, desde la que acceder mAs cabalmente a su vida y obra. Las relaciones epistolares del autor de Nieve con creadores latinoamericanos y europeos como RubEn DarIo, Enrique GOmez Carrillo, Gonzalo PicOn Febres, Francisco AsIs de Icaza, Salvador Rueda, Gustave Moreau y Joris-Karl Huysmans trazan un mapa de cercanIas y comuniones estEticas de enorme valor para el conocimiento del modernismo en HispanoamErica y de las preocupaciones, contactos y...

Through a study of literature, the social and cultural issues that help form the identity of a people can be revealed and examined. The ten essays in Temas del comercio y la economía en la narrativa hispana investigate the relation between the Hispanic narrative and the economic and commercial concerns of Spanish-speaking peoples around the world from a variety of historical periods. Balancing a study of writers' perspectives on current economic conditions with a look at literary versions of economic events, this anthology provides a window into Hispanic culture for both the student of...