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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...

A dazzling sampler, Water Lilies brings to light a rich and until now largely invisible version of Spanish literary history. These hard-to-find works, most translated for the first time, are printed on facing pages in Spanish and English and located within a critical, biographical, and historical overview.

Mestizaje y criollismo en la literatura de la Nueva España del siglo XVI es un estudio de los cambios en el idioma y la literatura castellana y náhuatl a causa del proceso de expansión hispánica en el Anáhuac. Según el autor, los cambios en el hombre de esa época conllevan implícitamente a cambios no sólo de pensamiento, sino otros provocados por la transculturación (consecuencia directa del contacto con pueblos de otras lenguas). Para estudiar este proceso se basó especialmente en autores novohispanos por medio de un análisis y comparación de textos de los pueblos originarios de ...