Políticas poéticas

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.

Aquest estudi es proposa recuperar la sàtira de la tradicional postergació a què s'ha vist sotmesa en els últims temps. En contrast amb les tendències crítiques que han proclamat la decadència del satíric dins de la narrativa contemporània, es pot afirmar que la sàtira ha experimentat un ressorgiment, ja que és més que mai una manera inestable, híbrida i alliberada d'anyenques prescripcions teòriques. A fi de demostrar aquest plantejament, aquest estudi enfoca la qüestió des d'una perspectiva comparatista que aborda l'anàlisi del rellevant paper exercit pel satíric en...

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 group of thirty chronicles that Fabrizio Meja Madrid spun along thirteen years while strolling up and down the national territory, from the forest to the desert, from the mountains to the highlands, to end, like so many other Mexicans every year, crossing the northern frontier. New drugs, saints with beatified roosters, murderers of one night and of one life, communards with "machetes" and teachers surrounding the foreigner murdered in Oaxaca, a town of kidnappers and three missing towns, the television that presents circus phenomena, the fantasies of the national porn, the corpses of too...