Shakespeare en la imaginación contemporánea. Revisiones y reescrituras de su obra

¿Es posible aprender a amar y entender a una raza que desde pequeños nos han enseñado a excluir y culpar? Un español de sangre latina intenta profundizar en el alma de uno de los pueblos más ordenados e inteligentes del mundo: el pueblo alemán. Intercede por una nueva visión de la historia para valorarles ya no como individuos pertenecientes a una ideología excluyente que causó daño en el pasado, sino como personas pertenecientes a un mundo que cada día hace esfuerzos para integrarse entre sí. Les observa desde el exterior y dialécticamente intenta sacudir de sus conciencias el...

Little mouse decides to pull a prank his friends the bird and the squirrel by telling him that he has seen a blue wolf. What happens when a blue wolf actually appears?

Text in Spanish. Pedro Páramo, the only novel published by the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo, is a masterpiece. Tras los murmullos offers six different readings and analyses of the novel by Mexican and Scandinavian scholars. Contrary to what might be expected, the Scandinavian reader is able to identify with the solitude of the characters in the novel, the language of few words of the peasants and the careful linguistic awareness of Rulfo. This may not be surprising since Rulfo was, as discussed in one of the chapters, inspired by Scandinavian literature, which he admired. Also discussed here is ...

This trilingual volume examines the extent to which myths are affected by the crises of the 20th and 21st centuries. It brings together four theoretical studies which analyse both the crisis of structure – implying the distortion or disappearance of myth – and the crisis of concepts and terminology that currently threaten the study of mythology. The largest section of the volume focuses on the crises that have affected ancient, medieval and modern literary myths from a global perspective, taking into account psychology, ethics, politics and contemporary meta-literature. The final section...