Friedrich Schiller

Offers detailed analyses and reconstructions of Picon's eight novels. Of special significance to modern readers are his conceptions of Spanish history and character, patriotism, and women and sex -- conceptions that for their day may be considered advanced.

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 book collects for the first time a compendium of poems written in English by brigadists, sanitary personnel and journalists that participated or were involved in the Spanish Civil War, as well as by intellectuals, writers and journalists that supported the republican cause from the outside. The anthology starts from a previous historical framework in which this poetic legacy has been contextualized, to know where, when, how and why these poems were written, and who wrote them or who were their protagonists. All these analyses have served to understand the causes of why this poetic legacy ...

La psicología literaria no es la psicología aplicada a la literatura, sino la psicología (o el estudio de las formas del alma) que nace de la experiencia literaria. Asociamos la literatura con los libros sin prestar la debida atención a su oralidad. Nada hay que dure, decía Carlyle, como la palabra verdaderamente hablada. El contexto es determinante, sin duda, como en Shakespeare, cuyo genio parece recuperar con la lectura lo que se ha perdido en la representación. Sin embargo, no podemos descartar lo que en su origen ha sido el hecho literario cuando los mismos géneros parecen...