Recetas Mágicas de la vidente Rocío, La Sevillana

A critical edition of the original version of Calderón’s masterpiece, based on the text contained in the Zaragoza Parte (1636). Now republished for the first time since the seventeenth century, the "Zaragoza" version is preceded by a lengthy introductory study in which Ruano offers important evidence and new deductions convincingly to establish that Calderón wrote two versions of La vida es sueño (Life’s a Dream): a first version – the "Zaragoza" play, written probably before 1630 and primarily for performance – and a revised version (1635) for publication in the "Primera parte" of ...

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.

This volume presents ten articles about the Hispanic theatre. It presents over more than 150 pages a range of studies that go from the end of the Middle Ages to the present day of the liturgical dramatization to the process of transforming a collection of poems into a play, from Argentina and Mexico to the Canary Islands and Majorca. It pays attention to certain works ("Davallament de la Creu", the comedies El villano en su rincón, La Varona castellana y El príncipe despeñado by Lope de Vega, the prologues by Antonio de Solís, the Ifigenia by Jovellanos, Nuevo género by Felipe...

Un libro audaz y renovador que señala un hito decisivo en la labor crítica de Umberto Eco. En este libro Umberto Eco se convierte en su propio objeto de estudio y analista de sí mismo. Acompañado de Dante, Leopardi y Joyce,e interpretando a los principales hermeneutas de sus obras, Eco replantea cuatro grandes problemas de la semiótica moderna: los «límites de la interpretación», el excesivo dispendio de «energía interpretativa», «los criterios de economía de lectura» y un ataque polémico a la «práctica de la deconstrucción». Trata así de restablecer el equilibrio entre...