La imagen de los negros en el teatro del Siglo de Oro

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...

Generic experimentation is at the heart of the major poetic innovations of the Spanish Golden Age. The passage from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century marked a dynamic moment of transition in the evolution of aesthetic forms. This volume of essays, which unites contributions from a cross-section of specialists in the field of Hispanic poetry, presents a comprehensive exploration of the unprecedented flowering of Hispanic culture associated with this period. It not only places aesthetic questions in their broader European context, but looks beyond the confines of Europe to interrogate...

Este volumen se ocupa de las presencias tecnológicas y mediáticas y sus vínculos con los procesos de desterritorialización propios de la globalización en la literatura latinoamericana de los últimos veinte años.

Los ensayos aquí reunidos, no obstante las perspectivas teóricas particulares y los enfoques diversos que adoptan en sus análisis, coinciden en referirse a ciertos problemas de fondo vinculados a la representación de la violencia extrema, como son las condiciones de producción, los mecanismos formales adoptados en la escritura, los efectos en el receptor, o las injerencias en el medio social provocadas por los textos literarios a la hora de articular violencia política, memoria, representación y justicia.