Tiempos de ausencias y vacíos

Esta obra profundiza en la magia de los cuentos populares de siempre, con el objetivo de aportar algo de luz sobre el verdadero origen de estas fantásticas historias, las distintas versiones existentes, los significados ocultos… Un viaje sugerente, provocativo y repleto de sorpresas de la mano de personajes tan conocidos como Blancanieves, Caperucita Roja, la Cenicienta, Hänsel y Gretel, Rapunzel, la Sirenita, Piel de Asno, la Bella Durmiente o el Soldadito de Plomo. Un trayecto repleto de fantasía y humor en el que descubriremos el mundo de los cuentos como nunca antes nos los habían...

Who writes "I"? How is the scene of writing represented in autobiographical texts? To whom are autobiographies addressed? What kinds of readers are inscribed in autobiographical narratives? In Apology to Apostrophe, James D. Fernandez offers a lucid and powerful meditation on the nature of autobiographical writing through his investigation of the historical conditions and literary stagings of autobiographical writing in Spain. As Fernandez demonstrates, recent developments in critical theory provide new and fruitful approaches to autobiographical works that have long been neglected,...

The two volumes gather the most important findings of the nine sessions held at the Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (AIH) conference in Münster, Germany, in 2016. The contributions focus, for example, on convergences and divergences between the holy and profane in medieval literature, on the constitution and construction of the "I" in Siglo de oro prose and poetry, or on the importance of space in theatre. Other central topics are transitions (in 18th- and 19th-century literature), crises and disruptions (in modern and contemporary literature), as well as transculturations and...

Annotation Between 1605 and 1621, Quevedo wrote a sequence of five "Dreams" or "Visions" "(Suenos y discursos), in each of which he hilariously envisions Spanish society as populated by people rightfully condemned to Hell. These astonishingly witty and irreverent satires of contemporary Spanish culture, morality, prejudice and religious fanaticism, were composed in a style as allusive, elliptical and equivocal as to successfully entertain both those who barely understood their full range and import, and others who celebrated the poet's rebellious insinuations. Censorship prohibited the...