Arte de prudencia

The two volumes gather the most important findings of the nine sessions held at the Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (AIH) conference in Münster, Germany, in 2016. The contributions focus, for example, on convergences and divergences between the holy and profane in medieval literature, on the constitution and construction of the "I" in Siglo de oro prose and poetry, or on the importance of space in theatre. Other central topics are transitions (in 18th- and 19th-century literature), crises and disruptions (in modern and contemporary literature), as well as transculturations and...

"First-person narrative does not always fall under the genre of autobiography. In the centuries before the genre was defined, authors often patterned their personal narratives after prestigious discourses, such as hagiography, historiography, and the literary miscellany.Caballero noble desbaratado: Autobiografía e invención en el siglo XVI: "Noble Knight Disrupted: Autobiography and Invention in the Sixteenth Century analyzes several first-person narratives from Spain and the conditions of their writing and reception. It focuses on the sixteenth-century Libro de la vida y costumbres (Book...

Emilia Pardo Bazán o la pasión por escribir Dolores THION SORIANO-MOLLÁ / Un merecido homenaje: Emilia Pardo Bazán en su centenario Dolores THION SORIANO-MOLLÁ / Emilia Pardo Bazán, poeta precoz Ermita PENAS VARELA / ¿El Episodio Nacional de Emilia Pardo Bazán? Marisa SOTELO / Emilia Pardo Bazán y Cataluña: las artes del diálogo Montserrat RIBAO / La mitología grecolatina en la narrativa breve de Emilia Pardo Bazán Emilia ROMERO / Emilia Pardo Bazán, escritora del color Javier LÓPEZ QUINTANS / Angelotes, pícaros y primogenituras: los niños de Emilia Pardo Bazán Santiago...

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 ...