Compendio general e innecesario de cosas que nunca pensó que le fueran a importar

Homenaje, arte poética y gozo se unen en este libro único, exquisito y feliz, en el que textos e imágenes componen una correspondencia milagrosa.

In the past decades, with the decline of the Grand Narratives and the subsequent need for new historical and political orientation, literary studies have been reflecting on the role of literature in the world. Together with Jacques Rancière—and in dialogue with Althusser, Foucault, or Fischer-Lichte—the present volume analyzes this political turn of literary studies.

Isabel Quintana investiga con perspicacia la representacion de las crisis de la memoria a traves de la literatura. Su punto de partida es la definicion benjaminiana de la "experiencia plena," concebida como un bien perdido que busca hacerse oir. Quintana analiza el periodo que comprende desde las dictaduras militares hasta el neoliberalismo de nuestros dias, concentrandose en la obra de Ricardo Piglia y Juan Jose Saer, Cristina Peri Rossi y Silviano Santiago. Su estudio indaga practicas escriturarias que luchan contra lo informe de la memoria tratando de articular horizontes posibles de...

A study of the relationship betwen court festivity and theatre in 16c Spain. Dr Ferrer Valls studies the relationship between court festivity and theatre in the sixteenth century, placing special emphasis on staging. She argues that throughout the reign of Philip II court spectacle perpetuates the complicated staging of traditional performances, but with greater emphasis on their dramatic aspects and on the use of music and song. In the first two decades of the seventeenth century, and above all in specific plays by Lope de Vega, court spectacles come to reflect also the influence of Italian...