Teatro y censura en la España franquista

Este volumen reúne las once clases del seminario que dictó Ricardo Piglia en la Universidad de Buenos Aires en 1990. Los textos se proponen como un punto de partida para abordar los problemas que se plantean en la discusión contemporánea sobre la poética de la novela, con el concepto de vanguardia como contexto. Después de cerrado el período de constitución de las grandes poéticas “argentinas” de la novela iniciado con Macedonio Fernández y que tiene entre sus figuras a Arlt, Marechal, Borges y Cortázar, se empiezan a constituir otras poéticas. Piglia toma las obras de Walsh,...

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 ...

The author of short stories, novels and essays, Benítez Rojo is an atypical intellectual in the panorama of Cuban exile because he offers an original perspective of the past, present and future conflicts of this troubled and complex area. This literary biography tells of his journey from his emergence in the Cuban intellectual world in 1967 to his death in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2005.

Establishing the notion of reasonable foolishness and foolish reason as a generic principle of the old French farce, Boucquey's study examines the interdependencies among four key mimetic phenomena: the demented universe of the Feast of Fools festival, the genre of the farce, Bruegel's representation of the world, and the euphoric comedies of triumphant madness created by Moliere. This reinterpretation of French farce according to the principle of a topsy-turvy world reveals the link of madness that unites the four modes of production studied, from textual linearity, through representational...