Teatro y censura en la España franquista

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 ...

Inspector Bismark Pacheco, the most respected man in Costa Rica, would rather practice playing his tuba, but he is called to the mountain resort of Monteverde to investigate an armed robbery of a group of tourists, and Pacheco soon finds himself pitted against a group of clever professional criminals.

This study deals with the experience of exile in the works of three Spanish American writers: The Cuban authors Reinaldo Arenas and Manuel Diaz Martinez, as well as the Uruguayan author Fernando Ainsa. Along with the reshaping of territories, and socio-economic and cultural dimensions which took place on a worldwide scale, the last few decades have also witnessed a reshaping of the spectrum and voices of Latin-American writers that create, revisit and suffer the complex and multifaceted phenomenon of exile. The displaced subject, or rather, the voices of the displaced, the marginalized and...

En palabras de J. Ignacio Díez Fernández, este extenso trabajo puede contemplarse desde perspectivas diversas: Para los más tradicionalistas, no dejará de ser, a pesar de sus abundantes páginas, la edición de un texto en el sentido más clásico, al que acompaña una buena introducción y una bienvenida anotación. Pero desde una perspectiva menos chata, es posible apreciar que son –y su tamaño así lo delata– varios libros en uno. Es, desde luego, la historia de una vida y la historia de un libro (que encierra algunas claves para la historia de la novela), aunque, más...