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History and the Historians of Medieval Spain

Abstract: Abbreviations Philip II and Hermenegild III Toledo and its legacy King Wamba and XII Toledo The chronicle of Alfonso III The reign of Ordono II: from Oviedo to Leon Leon and Castile in the eleventh century The reconquest of Toledo 1085 1147 Toledo and the political fragmentation of the peninsula Toledo after 1182 The history of Spain according to De rebus Hispaniae D. Rodrigo and D. Lucas The later thirteenth century Yet again the coronation of 1135 Toledo after 1295 Alvarus Pelagius his Speculum regum The chronicle of Alfonso XI and its author Epilogue Bibliography Index.

The Golden Age comedia : text, theory, and performance

Abstract: Drawing on the groundbreaking Spanish scholarship and editions of earlier generations and relying on research conducted in Spanish archives, this pioneering group of English-speaking scholars offers a new treatment of familiar material. The editors yoke together widely varying critical practices, including incisive New Critical readings and far-reaching explorations that draw on the most current European critical thought. In addition to these more strictly literary studies, there are interdisciplinary essays focusing on seventeenth- and twentieth-century reception and the social makeup of the comedia audience. The whole thus presents a balanced picture of the many ways in which the comedia can be viewed, and the contributors complement each other's work in often surprising ways, illuminating the same corpus from a number of perspectives.

Culture and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Spain

Abstract: Culture and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Spain is a wide-ranging discussion on women's writing and representations of gender in Spanish literature and culture from the Romantic period to the fin de siecle. It is customary to regard gender roles and representation in nineteenth-century Spain as polarized and predictable. But in this volume, leading scholars from the UK and USA discuss not only patriarchal emphasis of Spanish culture, but also demonstrate that this was a period in which relations between men and women were being constantly negotiated, challenged, and redefined as part of an on-going transformation of political and national identities. Contributions look at women's writing and the representation of women in canonical texts, the construction of both femininity and masculinity, issues of race and region, and popular fiction, journalism, and the visual arts. All quotations are given in Spanish and in English translation. Lively, challenging, and theoretically sophisticated, Culture and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Spain provides a much-needed overview of the Spanish cultural production in the most decisive of centuries.

Nuevas luces para las fuentes de "Azul"

Abstract: e. *.U. s evidente que el exhaustivo estudio de Arturo Marasso sobre la creaci6n poetica de Dario seguira siendo, por mucho tiempo, un ineludible camino de acceso a las posibles fuentes literarias del autor nicaragfiense. Sin embargo, como cualquier otra aportaci6n critica, no se trata de un logro definitivo o cerrado a la revisi6n, y los pasos dados en este sentido permniiten sospechar que la intertextualidad dariana tiene afin mucho camino por delante. El conocimiento del contorno libresco, aunque desplazado en los iltimos aiios por otro tipo de enfoques criticos, sigue resultando valido para fijar el contexto cultural de un poeta y, dada la selecci6n implicita en todo proceso de escritura con referencias literarias externas, resulta imprescindible para conocer su lado mas profundamente creativo. Ya reivindic6 Amado Alonso que las fuentes se refieren al autor "como incitaciones y como motivos de reacci6n" y que, por tanto, forman parte de ese todo que sirve para "conocer el acto de la poesia" y nos lieva "hacia una integral comprensi6n de la obra" (326-27). Simultaneamente, este tipo de inquisiciones se ve obligado, con frecuencia, a descansar en hip6tesis, mas o menos firmes, y el caso de Dario no es ninguna excepci6n. El mismo Amado Alonso, al proponer una cuarteta de Miguel Angel como modelo para "Lo fatal," lo hace basindose en sus evidentes semejanzas textuales y suponiendo una lectura, nunca documentada, del poema italiano por parte de Ruben (330). Al investigar la procedencia de los textos

Una disciplina frustrada: la historia literaria dieciochesca

Abstract: ** 4 * N primer objetivo de este trabajo es el de precisar la extensi6n del termino historia literaria en el siglo xviii y la ubicaci6n de las prActicas por 61 designadas en relaci6n a las diversas practicas discursivas de la 6poca. Estimo conveniente tal precisi6n porque lo mas facil, y lo habitual, es incurrir en una proyecci6n anacr6nica que distorsiona el significado del termino y con 61, el estudio de la practicas correspondientes. En principio, el peligro toca a ambos componentes del sintagma, historia y literatura, porque estos tienen un alcance distinto al actual, pero es sobre el primero que creo necesario extenderme algo mas. Sobre la literatura de la historia literaria dieciochesca, es bien sabido que se trata del sentido premoderno de la voz, que abarca el conjunto del saber humano conservado en forma escrita, no s6lo las bellas letras sino tambi6n, y mas centralmente, las ciencias o facultades mayores y los estudios humanisticos. Es en este sentido que se usa en obras como las de los Rodriguez Mohedano, Lampillas, o Andr6s, en las que por lo general se piensa al aludir a la historia literaria del xvIII. Recordado esto, pasemos al componente hist6rico. Partiendo de la asimilaci6n del concepto premoderno de historia al actual, se suele explicar el auge de la historia literaria en el xvIII como una manifestaci6n mas del interns reformista por la historia

Postmodernity in Latin America. The Argentine Paradigm

Abstract: Postmodernity in Latin America contests the prevailing understanding of the relationship between postmodernity and Latin America by focusing on recent developments in Latin American, and particularly Argentine, political and literary culture. While European and North American theorists of postmodernity generally view Latin American fiction without regard for its political and cultural context, Latin Americanists often either uncritically apply the concept of postmodernity to Latin American literature and society or reject it in an equally uncritical fashion. The result has been both a limited understanding of the literature and an impoverished notion of postmodernity. Santiago Colas challenges both of these approaches and corrects their consequent distortions by locating Argentine postmodernity in the cultural dynamics of resistance as it operates within and against local expressions of late capitalism. Focusing on literature, Colas uses Julio Cortazar’s Hopscotch to characterize modernity for Latin America as a whole, Manuel Puig’s Kiss of the Spider Woman to identify the transition to a more localized postmodernity, and Ricardo Piglia’s Artificial Respiration to exemplify the cultural coordinates of postmodernity in Argentina. Informed by the cycle of political transformation beginning with the Cuban Revolution, including its effects on Peronism, to the period of dictatorship, and finally to redemocratization, Colas’s examination of this literary progression leads to the reconstruction of three significant moments in the history of Argentina. His analysis provokes both a revised understanding of that history and the recognition that multiple meanings of postmodernity must be understood in ways that incorporate the complexity of regional differences. Offering a new voice in the debate over postmodernity, one that challenges that debate’s leading thinkers, Postmodernity in Latin America will be of particular interest to students of Latin American literature and to scholars in all disciplines concerned with theories of the postmodern.

Dance of the Dolphin. Transformation and Disenchantment in the Amazonian Imagination

Abstract: In folktales told throughout much of the Brazilian Amazon, dolphins take human form, attend raucous dances and festivals, seduce men and women, and carry them away to a city beneath the river. They are encantados, or Enchanted Beings, capable of provoking death or madness, but also called upon to help shamanic healers. Male dolphins - accomplished dancers who appear dressed in dapper straw hats, white suits and with shiny black shoes - reportedly father numerous children. The females are said to lure away solitary fishermen. Both sinister and charming, these characters resist definition and thus domination; greedy and lascivious outsiders, they are increasingly symbolic of a distinctly Amazonian culture politically, socially, economically and environmentally under seige. Candace Slater examines these stories in this book, both as folk narratives and as representations of culture and conflict in Amazonia. Her study discusses the tales from the viewpoints of genre, performance and gender, but centres on them as responses to the great changes sweeping the Amazon today. According to Slater, these surprisingly widespread tales reflect Amazonians' own mixed reactions to the ongoing destruction of the rainforest and the resulting transformations in the social as well as physical landscape. Offering an informed view of Brazilian culture, this book crosses the boundaries of folklore, literature, anthropology and Latin American studies.