Rituales literarios

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 ...

How Far is America From Here? approaches American nations and cultures from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It is very much at the heart of this comparative agenda that “America” be considered as a hemispheric and global matter. It discusses American identities relationally, whether the relations under discussion operate within the borders of the United States, throughout the Americas, and/or worldwide. The various articles here gathered interrogate the very notion of “America”: which, whose America, when, why now, how? What is meant by “far”—distance,...

Semiótica de la argumentación: ¿podemos argumentar con imágenes? Es un esfuerzo académico docente por unificar diferentes orientaciones de la teoría de la argumentación junto a los análisis semióticos de las imágenes que inundan la iconósfera. Su diseño involucra un avance conceptual desde los elementos básicos del análisis argumental para luego dialogar y justificar la pertinencia en la observación de las imágenes que dominan los espacios de intercambio dialógico, tanto en redes virtuales como también en los soportes físicos de comunicación social. Cada sección busca...

El acercamiento a la narrativa antiesclavista cubana de la época colonial ha sido tradicionalmente tratado desde la alteridad dicotómica.