Guzmán de Alfarache y la novela moderna

Propuestas para (re)construir una nación explores how Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851–1921) imagines and engenders the Spanish nation in her theatrical production staged and/or published between 1898 and 1909. In the aftermath of Spain’s colonial losses, when Spain’s male authors, in a growing mood of collective introspection, directed their attention to the homeland, Pardo Bazán generated a series of theatrical proposals to revitalize the nation. In her plays, she manifests her ideas about Spain’s fin de siècle crisis, reflects on Spain’s place in the international arena (emphasizing...

The extraordinary abilities of the Watchmen, Flash Gordon, and Batman have been overtaken by current technology. The writers and creators of comics imagined a universe of heroes and villains, making them faster than a speeding bullet and more powerful than a train. Today, their exploits have been analyzed. This book recounts the highlights and dark sides of some of the most recognized characters in the world of comics, suggesting that sometimes the impossible can become reality.

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.

En el ojo del espejo es un libro a dos voces: una de ellas cuenta la progresiva reconquista, por parte de Ulises, de su identidad y su condición de rey de Ítaca. La segunda voz se refiere al espejo. Objeto paradójico, sirve como operador simbólico para pensar la relación entre los sexos en la antigua Grecia y como objeto de una disciplina autónoma, la catóptrica, rama de la óptica dedicada al estudio de la reflexión.