Discurso de Autora: Género Y Censura en la Narrativa Española de Posguerra

This volume of essays in Spanish and English examines some of the key issues which surround the emergence of the Avant-Garde novel in Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century. The experimental novel of the 1920s is seen as the culmination of a process of change in approaches to the novel which began early in the century and was further promoted by Spain's key Avant-Gardist Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Several essays focus on the form of the novel and seek to shed new light on the role of José Ortega y Gasset as mentor to the new writers of the 1920s and on our understanding of his use...

Este libro se interesa en las conexiones de la literatura con los generos y esteticas de la cultura de masas. En todos los relatos considerados puede leerse la seduccion que ejercen las formas de la cultura popular, paralela a la producida b"y buscadab" en el lector, pero seguida de una inevitable "traicion." Amor e infidelidad hacia las formas masivas: los textos las usan, las integran pero no pueden evitar marcar la diferencia, que es la diferencia con "la otra cultura." Y es en esa distancia entre el uso seductor y la decepcion de lo esperado que se abre la posibilidad de una lectura...

A través de un diálogo crítico en el que se entrecruzan diversas disciplinas y la crítica previa, este estudio invita al lector a profundizar en los modos como la literatura preserva instancias de la memoria colectiva y contribuye a que no se olviden situaciones que es preciso reconocer y continuar evaluando.

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 ...