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Monografías publishes critical studies covering a wide range of topics in the literature, culture and history of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America from the Middle Ages to the present day. It aims to promote intellectually stimulating and innovative scholarship that will make a major contribution to the fields of Hispanic and Lusophone studies. Work on un- or under-explored sources and themes or utilising new methodological and theoretical approaches, as well as interdisciplinary studies, are particularly encouraged. Both monographs and essay collections, in English, Spanish, English/Spanish or English/Portuguese, are welcome.

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173 results in Monografías A

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A Companion to José Enrique Rodó
  • Volume 375
  • Gustavo San Román
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    19 July 2019
    Print publication:
    20 April 2018
  • The first comprehensive intellectual biography of one of the greatest cultural figures of the Spanish-speaking world.

The Classical Tradition in Medieval Catalan, 1300–1500

Narrativas del descalabro
  • La novela venezolana en tiempos de revolución
  • Volume 380
  • Patricia Valladares-Ruiz
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    14 June 2019
    Print publication:
    21 September 2018
  • La autora examina cómo el conflicto político ha permeado la actual narrativa venezolana para trazar los orígenes y consecuencias de una contemporaneidad turbulenta.Explores the intersections of cultural policies, social changes, political conflict, and fiction writing in modern-day Venezuela.

El imperio de la virtud
  • Grandeza mexicana (1604) de Bemardo de Balbuena y el discurso criollo novohispano
  • Jorge L. Terukina Yamauchi
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 October 2017
    Print publication:
    21 April 2017
  • En contraste con la normativa lectura criollista y proto-nacionalista de Grandeza mexicana (1604), El imperio de la virtud analiza el texto de Bernardo de Balbuena en un contexto atlántico y propone interpretarlo como una defensa del derecho natural de los inmigrantes peninsulares a gobernar la Nueva España.
    Además de ofrecer una actualizada y documentada biografía de Balbuena que nos recuerda sus lazos con la península ibérica, el libro reconstruye las olvidadas tradiciones retórica, científica, geopolítica y económica que articulan Grandeza mexicana. Gracias a ello, la obra presenta este elogio de la capital virreinal como un posicionamiento político en favor de peninsulares como el propio Balbuena, supuestos poseedores de las virtudes morales e intelectuales necesarias para gobernar espiritual y temporalmente el virreinato novohispano, y en desmedro de los moralmente deficientes criollos y los salvajes indígenas.
    El imperio de la virtud nos invita a reconsiderar el lugar que Balbuena y Grandeza mexicana ocupan en el acervo cultural mexicano.

    Jorge L. Terukina Yamauchi es docente e investigador de Estudios Hispánicos en el College of William and Mary.

    Against the normative proto-Mexican and criollista reading of Grandeza mexicana (1604), El imperio de la virtud positions Bernardo de Balbuena's work in an Atlantic context and hence interprets it as a political assertion of the natural right of peninsular émigrés to rule New Spain.
    The book offers an updated biography of Balbuena that reminds us of his ties to the Iberian Peninsula, and traces the pre-modern rhetorical, scientific, geopolitical, and economic paradigms upon which Grandeza mexicana is designed. Thus, the work analyzes Balbuena's encomium of Mexico City as a political prise de position in favor of peninsular émigrés like Balbuena himself, who are allegedly endowed with the moral and intellectual virtues needed to direct the spiritual and temporal life of the viceroyalty, and against the morally deficient criollos and the barbaric Indians.
    El imperio de la virtud invites us to reassess the role that Balbuena and Grandeza mexicana play in the cultural history of present-day Mexico.

    Jorge L. Terukina Yamauchi is Assistant Professor in Hispanic Studies at the College of William and Mary.

New Readings of Silvina Ocampo
  • Beyond Fantasy
  • Edited by Patricia N. Klingenberg, Fernanda Zullo-Ruiz
  • With contributions by Marjorie Agosín , Daniel Balderston , Fiona J. Mackintosh , Andrea Ostrov , Judith Podlubne , Giulia Poggi , Ashley Hope Perez , Maria Julia Rossi and Noemi Ulla
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    31 March 2017
    Print publication:
    15 September 2016
  • The critical essays in this volume are dedicated to the works of Argentine writer Silvina Ocampo (1903-1993) and introduce readers more fully to a figure who has long been a kind of insider's secret among intellectuals of her country. As the title suggests, the purpose of the volume is to move beyond the codification of Ocampo's use of the supernatural, an early oversimplification of her work. Theessays address the quirkiness, cruelty, violence, and overt sexuality of her works, elements which have impeded a full understanding of her creative vision. Here it becomes clear that Silvina Ocampowas a co-contributor to the literary enterprise of the Sur generation, which produced Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Victoria Ocampo, and had a profound influence on writers of the younger generation, such as Alejandra Pizarnik, Sylvia Molloy, Marjorie Agosín and others.

    Patricia N. Klingenberg is Professor of Latin American literature at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

    Fernanda Zullo-Ruiz is Associate Professor of Spanish at Hanover College in Madison, Indiana.

El testimonio en la pentagonía de Reinaldo Arenas
  • Stéphanie Panichelli-Batalla
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    30 March 2017
    Print publication:
    15 September 2016
  • Este libro presenta un análisis detallado de la Pentagonía de Reinaldo Arenas, que incluye las novelas Celestino antes del alba, El palacio de los blanquísimas mofetas, Otra vez el mar, El color del verano, y El asalto. A través del uso de la ficción, Arenas ofrece un testimonio de la opresión que sufrió en Cuba como escritor homosexual durante los años sesenta y los setenta. Este libro pone de relieve el hecho de que, aunque su trabajo no cumpla con las pautas de la novela testimonial cubana, le da una voz a aquellos que fueron silenciados por el gobierno revolucionario. Los dos primeros capítulos ofrecen una visión general de los géneros literarios relevantes para este estudio, como la autobiografía, la novela autobiográfica y la novela testimonial, así como del contexto socio-histórico de la Pentagonía. Posteriormente, este estudio analiza en detalle cada novela por separado, y ofrece una visión de la Pentagonía en su conjunto.

    Stephanie Panichelli-Batalla es profesora titular de español y estudios latinoamericanos en la Universidad de Aston.

    This book presents an in-depth analysis of Reinaldo Arenas's Pentagony, which includes the novels Singingfrom the Well, The Palace of the White Skunks, Farewell to the Sea, The Color of Summer, and The Assault. Through the use of fiction, Arenas offers a testimony of theoppression he suffered in Cuba during the sixties and the seventies as a homosexual writer. This book highlights the fact that although his work does not comply with the guidelines of the Cuban documentary novel, it does give a strong voice to those who were silenced by the Revolutionary government. The first two chapters provide an overview of literary genres relevant to this study, such as the autobiography, autobiographical novel and documentary novel, as well as the socio-historical context of the novels. Subsequently, this study looks in detail at each novel separately, offering a comprehensive overview of the Pentagony as a whole.

    Stephanie Panichelli-Batalla is a Lecturer of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Aston University.

Fado and the Urban Poor in Portuguese Cinema of the 1930s and 1940s
  • Michael Colvin
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 July 2016
    Print publication:
    19 May 2016
  • Colvin studies the evolution of Fado music as the soundtrack to the Portuguese talkie. He analyzes the most successful Portuguese films of the first two decades of the Estado Novo era to understand how directors used the national song to promote the values of the young Regime regarding the poor inhabitants of Lisbon's popular neighborhoods. He consides the aesthetic, technological, and social advances that accompany the progress of the Estado Novo---Futurism; the development of sound film; the inception of national radio broadcast; access to the automobile; and urban renewal---within a historical context that considers Portugal's global profile at the time of António de Oliveira Salazar's rise to power and the inauguration of António Ferro's Secretariado da Propaganda Nacional [Ministry of National Propaganda]; Portugal's role as a secret ally of the Falange during the Spanish Civil War; Lisbon's role as a neutral refuge during World War II; and the Portuguese Colonial Empire as an anachronism in the post-World War II years.
    Colvin argues that Portuguese directors have exploited the growing popularity of the Fado and Lisbon's fadistas to dissuade citizens from alien values that promote individual ambitions and the notion of an easy life of poverty in the Capital. As the public image of the Fado evolves, the fadista's role in film becomes more prominent and eventually,the fadista is the protagonist and the Fado, the principal concern of national film. The author exposes the irony that as the social profile of the Lisbon fadista improves with the international fame of singer Amália Rodrigues, Portuguese film perpetuates and validates the outdated characterization of the fadista as a social pariah that Leito de Barros had proposed in the first Portuguese talkie, A Severa (1931).

    Michael Colvin is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at Marymount Manhattan College.

Ramon Llull as a Vernacular Writer
  • Communicating a New Kind of Knowledge
  • Lola Badia, Joan Santanach, Albert Soler
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 June 2016
    Print publication:
    18 February 2016
  • Ramon Llull (1232-1316), mystic, missionary, philosopher and author of narrative and poetry, wrote both in Latin and in Vernacular claiming he had been given a new science to unveil the Truth. This book shows why his Latin and Vernacular books cannot be read as if they had been written in isolation from one another. Llull was an atypical 'scholar' because he enjoyed a form of access to knowledge that differed from the norm and because he organized the production and dissemination of his writings in a creative and unconventional fashion. At a time when learned texts and university culture wereconveyed for the most part using the vehicle of Latin, he wrote a substantial proportion of his theological and scientific works in his maternal Catalan while, at the same time, he was deeply involved in the circulation of such works in other Romance languages. These circumstances do not preclude the fact that a no less important number of the titles comprising his extensive output of more than 260 items were written directly in Latin, or that he had various books which were originally conceived in Catalan subsequently translated or adapted into Latin.



    Lola Badia is a professor in the Catalan Philology Departament at the University of Barcelona.

    Joan Santanach is Lecturer of Catalan Philology at the University of Barcelona.

    Albert Soler (1963) is Lecturer of Catalan Philology at the University of Barcelona.

La mujer moderna en los escritos de Federica Montseny
  • Nuria Cruz-Cámara
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 December 2015
    Print publication:
    16 July 2015
  • Este libro explora la representación de la mujer moderna en los ensayos y la ficción de Federica Montseny (1905-1994), líder anarquista española de gran prominencia en las décadas de 1920 y 1930. Se examinan en profundidad sus escritos sobre la cuestión de la mujer a la luz de las premisas filosóficas que sustentan el ideario del anarquismo. Además, su ficción mantiene un complejo diálogo con los discursos científicos y culturales de género que proliferaron durante las primeras décadas del siglo XX. La mujer moderna de Montseny no consiste en una figura única, finalizada y estática, sino que se desplaza entre una diversidad de articulaciones a veces contradictorias, pero que reflejan por igual sus creencias anarquistas. Montseny, quien gozó; de enorme popularidad en su época como escritoray política, elaboró y diseminó; algunas de las propuestas sobre la emancipación de las mujeres más originales de su tiempo, y este volumen es el primero en situar su pensamiento como una de las piezas fundamentales en la evolución del feminismo español.

    Nuria Cruz-Cámara es Profesora Titular en la Universidad de Tennesse.

    This book explores the figure of the modern woman in the essays and fiction of Federica Montseny (1905-1994), a prominent Spanish anarchist leader during the 1920s and 1930s. It examines in depth the author's theories of gender in light of the basic principles of anarchist political thought and philosophy. In addition, Montseny's novels are shown to engage in an elaborate and critical dialogue with scientific and cultural discourses on women that proliferated during the first four decades of the 20th century. Montseny's ideal modern woman is not a static and definite figure; rather, she shifts across different and at times contradictory articulations that, nonetheless, all fall within her anarchist beliefs. Montseny, a popular politician and writer during her time, developed and disseminated some of the most original concepts dealing with women's emancipation and gender theory, and the present volume is the first to situate her thought as a key component within the evolution of Spanish feminism..

    Nuria Cruz-Cámara is Professor of Spanish at the University of Tennessee.

Remaking the Comedia
  • Spanish Classical Theater in Adaptation
  • Edited by Harley Erdman, Susan Paun de Garcia
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 December 2015
    Print publication:
    16 April 2015
  • This volume brings together twenty-six essays from the world's leading scholars and practitioners of Spanish Golden Age theatre. Examining the startlingly wide variety of ways that Spanish comedias have been adapted, re-envisioned, and reinvented, the book makes the case that adaptation is a crucial lens for understanding the performance history of the genre. The essays cover a wide range of topics, from the early stage history of the comedia through numerous modern and contemporary case studies, as well as the transformation of the comedia into other dramatic genres, such as films, musicals, puppetry, and opera. The essays themselves are brief and accessible to non-specialists. This book will appeal not only to Golden Age scholars and students but also to theater practitioners, aswell as to anyone interested in the theory and practice of adaptation.

    Harley Erdman is Professor of Theater at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

    Susan Paun de García is Professor of Spanish at Denison University.

    Contributors: Sergio Adillo Rufo, Karen Berman, Robert E. Bayliss, Laurence Boswell, Bruce R. Burningham, Amaya Curieses Irarte, Rick Davis, Harley Erdman, Susan L. Fischer, Charles Victor Ganelin, Francisco Garcia Vicente, Alejandro Gonzalez Puche, Valerie Hegstrom, Kathleen Jeffs, David Johnston, Gina Kaufmann, Catherine Larson, Donald R. Larson, Barbara Mujica, Susan Paun de Garcia, Felipe B. Pedraza Jimenez, Veronika Ryjik, Jonathan Thacker, Laura L. Vidler, Duncan Wheeler, Amy Williamsen, Jason Yancey

Juan de Mena
  • de letrado a poeta
  • Cristina Moya García
  • With contributions by Federica Accorsi , Carlos Alvar , Linde M. Brocato , Daniel Capra , Juan Luis Carriazo Rubio , Antonio Cortijo , Sila Gómez Álvarez , Ángel Gómez Moreno , Daniel Hartnett , Julián Jiménez Heffernan , Maxim Kerkhof , Françoise Maurizi , Francisco de Paula Cañas Gálvez and Pedro Ruiz Pérez
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 May 2015
    Print publication:
    19 February 2015
  • Este libro reúne un número significativo de artículos suponen una aportación ciertamente notable a la bibliografía disponible hasta la fecha. Juan de Mena: de letrado a poeta recoge dieciséis trabajos en los que se estudia su figura y su obra desde perspectivas distintas pero complementarias que abren nuevas líneas de investigación o bien enriquecen otras ya existentes. El libro está estructurado en tres grandes bloques temáticos: El primero de ellos se dedica al contexto histórico de Juan de Mena. El segundo bloque gira en torno a la configuración del poeta, atendiendo a la conciencia autorial de Mena y a los recursos literarios que emplea. El tercer y último bloque está dedicado a la transformación del 'famosíssimo poeta Juan de Mena' en un clásico. Cristina Moya García es profesora en la Universidad de Córdoba. This book contains several studies reviewing the two facets of Juan de Mena's life as lawyer and poet. These contributions open up new lines of research on this important early-fifteenth-century Castilian writer and enrich some existing ones, studying Juan de Mena from different perspectives. The book is structured into three thematic blocks: The first is devoted to the historical context of Juan de Mena. The second section focuses on the configuration of the poet. The third and final part is dedicated to the transformation of "famosíssimo poeta Juan de Mena" into a classic author. Cristina Moya García is a profesor at the Universidad de Córdoba.Contributors: Federica Accorsi, Carlos Alvar, Linde M. Brocato, Daniel Capra, Juan Luis Carriazo Rubio, Antonio Cortijo, Sila Gómez Álvarez, Ángel Gómez Moreno, Daniel Hartnett, Julián Jiménez Heffernan, Maxim Kerkhof, Françoise Maurizi, Cristina Moya García, Francisco de Paula Cañas Gálvez, Pedro Ruiz Pérez.

Spanish Golden Age Poetry in Motion
  • The Dynamics of Creation and Conversation
  • Edited by Jean Andrews, Isabel Torres
  • With contributions by Dana Bultman , Noelia Cirnigliaro , Marsha Collins , Trevor J. Dadson , Aurora Egido , Verónica Grossi , Anne Holloway , Mark J. Mascia , Terence O'Reilly , Carmen Peraita , Amanda Powell and Colin Thompson
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 November 2014
    Print publication:
    20 November 2014
  • The fourteen essays of this volume engage in distinct ways with the matter of motion in early modern Spanish poetics, without limiting the dialectic of stasis and movement to any single sphere or manifestation. Interrogation of the interdependence of tradition and innovation, poetry, power and politics, shifting signifiers, the intersection of topography and deviant temporalities, the movement between the secular and the sacred, tensions between centres and peripheries, issues of manuscript circulation and reception, poetic calls and echoes across continents and centuries, and between creative writing and reading subjects, all demonstrate that Helgerson's central notion of conspicuous movement is relevant beyond early sixteenth-century secular poetics, By opening it up we approximate a better understanding of poetry's flexible spatio-temporal co-ordinates in a period of extraordinary historical circumstances and conterminous radical cultural transformation. Los catorce ensayos de este volumen conectan de una manera perceptible con el tema del movimiento en la poesía española del siglo de oro, sin limitar la dialéctica de la estasis y movimiento a una sola esfera o manifestación única. Entre los multiples enfoques cabe destacar: el cuestionamiento de la interdependencia de la tradición e inovación, de la poesía, del poder y la política, de los significantes que se transforman, de los espacios que conectan y cruzan con los tiempos 'desviados'; análisis de las tensiones entre lo sagrado y lo secular, del conflicto centro-periferia y del complejo sistema de producción, circulación y recepción de los manuscritos; el diálogo con el eco poético a través de los siglos y de los continentes y la construcción creativa del sujeto escritor y/o lector. Al abrir la noción central de Helgerson del "movimiento conspicuo" más allá de la poesía nueva secular, este libro propone un entendimiento más completo de las coordinadas espacio-temporales de la poesía en un periodo de circunstancias históricas extrao. Jean Andrews is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University of Nottingham. Isabel Torres is Professor of Spanish Golden Age Literature at Queen's University, Belfast. Contributors: Jean Andrews, Dana Bultman, Noelia Cirnigliaro, Marsha Collins, Trevor J. Dadson, Aurora Egido, Verónica Grossi, Anne Holloway, Mark J. Mascia, Terence O'Reilly, Carmen Peraita, Amanda Powell, Colin Thompson, Isabel Torres.

A Companion to Galician Culture
  • Edited by Helena Miguélez-Carballeira
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 November 2014
    Print publication:
    16 October 2014
  • Of all the differentiated regions comprising contemporary Spain, Galicia is possibly the most deeply marked by political, economic and cultural inequities throughout the centuries. Possibly due to the absence of a nationally aware local bourgeoisie and the enduringly colonial structures informing Spanish-Galician economic and cultural relations, processes of national construction in the region have been patchily successful. However, Galicia's cultural distinctness is easily recognisable to the observer, from the language spoken in the region --- the contemporary variant of old Galician-Portuguese --- to the specific forms of the Galician built landscape, with its unique mixture of indigenous, imported and hybrid elements. The present volume offers English-language readers an in-depth introduction to the integral aspects of Galician cultural history, from pre-historical times to the present day. Whilst attention is given to the traditional areas of medieval culture, language, contemporary history and politics, the book also privileges compelling contemporary perspectives on cinema, architecture, the city of Santiago de Compostela and the urban qualities of Galician culture today. Helena Miguélez-Carballeira is a Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Bangor University, and Director of the Centre for Galician Studies in Wales.

Queering Acts of Mourning in the Aftermath of Argentina's Dictatorship
  • The Performances of Blood
  • Cecilia Sosa
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 October 2014
    Print publication:
    20 November 2014
  • Co-winner of the Inaugural AHGBI Prize for Best Doctoral Dissertation. The aftermath of Argentina's last dictatorship (1976-1983) has traditionally been associated with narratives of suffering, which recall the loss ofthe 30,000 civilians infamously known as the "disappeared". When democracy was recovered, the unspoken rule was that only those related by blood to the missing were entitled to ask for justice. This book both queries and queers this bloodline normativity. Drawing on queer theory and performance studies, it develops an alternative framework for understanding the affective transmission of trauma beyond traditional family settings. To do so, it introduces anarchive of non-normative acts of mourning that runs across different generations. Through the analysis of a broad spectrum of performances - including interviews, memoirs, cooking sessions, films, jokes, theatrical productions andliterature - the book shows how the experience of loss has not only produced a well-known imaginary of suffering but also new forms of collective pleasure. Cecilia Sosa received a PhD in Drama from Queen Mary, University of London. She is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at School of Arts & Digital Industries, University of East London.

The Reception of Machiavelli in Early Modern Spain
  • Keith David Howard
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 September 2014
    Print publication:
    17 July 2014
  • Arguing against historians of Spanish political thought that have neglected recent developments in our understanding of Machiavelli's contribution to the European tradition, the thesis of this book is that Machiavellian discourse had a profound impact on Spanish prose treatises of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. After reviewing in chapter 1 Machiavelli's ideological restructuring of the language of European political thought, in chapter 2 Dr. Howard shows how, before his works were prohibited in Spain in 1583, Spaniards such as Fadrique Furió Ceriol and Balthazar Ayala used Machiavelli's new vocabulary and theoretical framework to develop an imperial discourse that would be compatible with a militant understanding of Catholic Christianity. In chapters 3, 4 and 5 he demonstrates in detail how Giovanni Botero, Pedro de Ribadeneyra, and their imitators in the anti-Machiavellian reason-of-state tradition in Spain, attack a straw figure of Machiavelli that they have invented for their own rhetorical and ideological purposes, while they simultaneously incorporate key Machiavellian concepts into their own advice. Keith David Howard is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Florida State University.

Tolerance and Coexistence in Early Modern Spain
  • The Moriscos of the Campo de Calatrava
  • Trevor J. Dadson
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 April 2014
    Print publication:
    17 April 2014
  • There has been a widely-held consensus among historians that the Moriscos of Spain made little or no attempt to assimilate to the majority Christian culture around them, and that this apparent obduracy made their expulsion between1609 and 1614 both necessary and inevitable. This book challenges that view. Assimilation, coexistence, and tolerance between Old and New Christians in early modern Spain were not a fiction or a fantasy, but could be a reality, made possible by the thousands of ordinary individuals who did not subscribe to the negative vision of the Moriscos put around by the propagandists of the government, and who had lived in peace and harmony side by side for generations. For some, this may be a new and surprising vision of early modern Spain, which for too long, and thanks in large part to the Black Legend, has been characterized as a land of intolerance and fanaticism. This book will help to rebalance the picture and show sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain in a new, infinitely richer and more rewarding light. Trevor J. Dadson FBA is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, andis currently President of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain & Ireland. In 2008 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

Proyecciones de Gabriel Miró en la narrativa española de postguerra
  • Guillermo Laín Corona
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 April 2014
    Print publication:
    21 March 2014
  • ¿Qué ha hecho que la obra de Gabriel Miró parezca haberse relegado a un lugar marginal de la historia de la literatura española, con cada vez menos lectores? La pregunta no es baladí. Puede que Miró no fuera un escritor de masas. En efecto, en concordancia con la estética de vanguardia, fue un autor difícil. Pero fue una figura clave de la llamada edad de plata. Sus obras, además, suscitaron un interés de repercusiones mediáticas, como las polémicas en torno a su retrato del clero o la presunta inmoralidad de su prosa y su heterodoxa visión de Cristo. En este libro, se sugieren las razones que han podido llevar a este injusto olvido literario y se muestra que, a pesar de todo, su obra nunca ha dejado de ser relevante, y ha influido en autores de postguerra tan importantes como Camilo José Cela y Francisco Umbral, en la obra narrativa de un filólogo de tanto prestigio como Antonio Prieto y en otros novelistas como Pedro de Lorenzo, Antonio Zoido y Adolfo Lizón. Guillermo Laín Corona es profesor de lengua y literatura españolas en University College London. ENGLISH VERSION: Why does it seem that Gabriel Miró has been neglected as a secondary writer in the literary history of Spain, with fewer and fewer readers? This is not an irrelevant question. Miró might not have had a mass readership, as, accordingly to the aesthetics of the Avant-Garde, he was a difficult writer. But he was a key figure in the so-called silver age. In addition, his works caught the kind of attention that fascinated the media, including the controversies surrounding his portrayals of the clergy, the supposedly immorality of his prose and his heterodox view of Christ. This book tackles the reasons for this unfair literary oblivion and shows that, despite it, his work was never completely overlooked. Indeed, Miró influenced relevant writers of the post-Civil War period, such as Camilo José Cela and Francisco Umbral, as well as the prose fiction of an important philologist like Antonio Prieto and other novelists such as Pedro de Lorenzo, Antonio Prieto and Adolfo Lizón. Guillermo Laín Corona is a Teaching Fellow in Spanish Language and Literature at University College London.

Eça de Queirós and the Victorian Press
  • Teresa Pinto Coelho
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 April 2014
    Print publication:
    20 February 2014
  • Eça de Queirós' work has primarily been studied within the context of French literature and culture.This book presents a different Eça. Focusing on the years that he lived in Paris, it demonstrates how the periodicals he himself conceived and edited were modeled on dozens of Victorian ones such as the Contemporary Review, the Review of Reviews or the Idler, as well as on some American ones such as the Forum, the Arena, and the North American Review. This book shows us an Eça who is undeniably an Anglophile, an Eça long seduced by the diversity and originality of English thought, an Eça increasingly distant from the French cultural model which had marked his education. This is a paradigm that, while in England (from 1874 to 1888), he perceives as being too restrictive if it were not complemented by the vast Anglo-Saxon universe which he was given to discover andfor which he nurtures a greater fascination, or we could even say a greater passion, than that to which critics and he himself are willing to admit. Teresa Pinto Coelho is Full Professor and Chair in Anglo-PortugueseStudies at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Dialogic Aspects of the Cuban Novel of the 1990s
  • Ángela Dorado-Otero
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 April 2014
    Print publication:
    20 March 2014
  • This book examines six polyphonic Cuban novels, published between 1991 and 1999. All the novels studied here, part of the new 'boom' of the Cuban novel in the 1990s, subvert homogenized views of Cuban identity, and this book analyses how, in undermining monolithic representations of reality, these polyphonic texts employ discursive techniques that question absolute truths, defy established boundaries of literary genres and challenge concepts of national, gender and individual identity. In this book, the authors studied (Reinaldo Arenas, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Abilio Estévez, Daína Chaviano, Yanitzia Canetti, and Zoé Valdés) are placed beyond the dichotomy of outside and inside Cuba, to focus on the fluidity and heterogeneity of Cuban culture displayed in its literature. This study establishes similarities and differences in the way these authors create polyphonic texts that question whether notions of country and nation coincide in novels that respond to economic hardship, political and social changes, issues of cubanía, and exile. ngela Dorado-Otero is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Iberian and Latin American Studiesat Queen Mary University of London.

El Teatro Pánico de Fernando Arrabal
  • Diego Santos Sánchez
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 March 2014
    Print publication:
    20 February 2014
  • The Panic Theatre is a set of plays conceived by Fernando Arrabal between 1957 and 1966, the author's first years in Paris. Composed at the zenith of the avant-garde movement, they convey a radically new and challenging theatricality whose cornerstone is their ceremonial shape. The plays' underlying panic ceremony is thoroughly studied in light of Arrabal's programmatic text Le Panique, that singles out three key concepts responsible for artistic creation: memory, chance and confusion. This study shows how memory determines the plays' departure from mimesis and how chance articulates the materials recalled from memory into precisely arranged plots. Furthermore, subjects, objects, spatial-temporal frames and words are subject to confusion, in an attempt to create an utterly innovative form of theatre. This group of seemingly heterogeneous plays is given theoretical coherence and consistency by placing the idea of panic at the centre of a great formal experimentation. Diego Santos Sánchez is a full-time researcher at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

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