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.

"First-person narrative does not always fall under the genre of autobiography. In the centuries before the genre was defined, authors often patterned their personal narratives after prestigious discourses, such as hagiography, historiography, and the literary miscellany.Caballero noble desbaratado: Autobiografía e invención en el siglo XVI: "Noble Knight Disrupted: Autobiography and Invention in the Sixteenth Century analyzes several first-person narratives from Spain and the conditions of their writing and reception. It focuses on the sixteenth-century Libro de la vida y costumbres (Book...

Der Band behandelt in neun Beiträgen die nationalistisch bedingten Ausbauprozesse einer Reihe romanischer Regionalsprachen und Varietäten dies- und jenseits des Atlantiks aus komparatistischer Sicht. Im ersten, synchron ausgerichteten Teil werden sechs Regionalsprachen – Katalanisch, Galicisch, Friaulisch, Sardisch, Korsisch und Okzitanisch – in den drei großen Ländern der europäischen Romania – Spanien, Italien und Frankreich – im Hinblick auf die sprachpolitischen Akteure, Präsenz in der wissenschaftlichen Kommunikation sowie bestimmte Aspekte der Normierung systematisch...

Este volumen dedicado a la obra de Jorge Semprun (1923-2011) se ocupa de los dos aspectos principales de su produccion escrita: sus obras autobiograficas y sus novelas. El primer apartado trata, en primer lugar, de las obras en que Semprun dio cuenta de su experiencia como deportado en el campo de concentracion de Buchenwald al final de la II Guerra Mundial, que lo encumbraron como uno de los grandes escritores de la llamada literatura concentracionaria; en segundo lugar, el autor analiza la autobiografia de infancia y de adolescencia de Semprun; y, en tercer lugar, las autobiografias...

Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this comparative study of a selection of The Arabian Nights stories in a cross-cultural context, brings together a number of disciplines and subject areas to examine the workings of narrative. It predominantly focuses on the ways in which the Arabian Nights have transformed as its stories have travelled across historical eras, cultures, genres and media. Departing from the familiar approaches of influence and textual studies, this book locates its central inquiry in the theoretical questions surrounding the workings of ideology, genre and genre ideology ...