El acto de las palabras

Original estudio que aborda el romance no como un género de oral, sino como un conjunto dinámico y variable de textos que evolucionan y se modifican durante su transmisión impresa.

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...

ACVF Editorial presenta La novela en el siglo XX (desde 1939), octavo volumen de los estudios históricos de literatura española.Juan Ignacio Ferreras, gran novelista él mismo y reconocido especialista de historia de la novela española, nos presenta en este libro la producción novelística de casi medio siglo. Sin olvidar a los escritores exiliados, como Max Aub, Arturo Barea, Francisco Ayala o Ramón J. Sender, el autor divide el periodo comprendido entre 1939 y 1988 en dos tendencias bien diferenciadas: la primera abarca las novelas de la posguerra, y la segunda, las obras creadas a la...

Mariselle Melendez studies the dynamics of colonial subject identity construction as elaborated in the exemplary eighteenth-century travel book, El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (A Guide for Inexperienced Travelers ). She analyzes elements of race and gender to argue that they become essential parts of the colonialist project which the author articulates throughout his travel diary by means of the voices of his two narrators: the Spanish Visitador Alonso Carrio de la Vandera and his companion and amanuensis, Calixto Bustamente Carlos Inca. Melendez shows how racial and cultural hybridity...