La novela vanguardista de Mario Verdaguer

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 ...

Un hombre ve a una persona idéntica a un viejo amigo de la juventud lo cual lo hace reflexionar sobre la nostalgia, la amistad y el pasado.

Durante el siglo XIX, surge un profundo interés por la recuperación de la historia nacional. Algunos personajes y eventos del pasado se convierten en símbolos de la nación a través de un proceso de mitificación, en el cual la literatura desempeña un importante papel. Este libro ofrece algunos ejemplos de cómo los escritores, artistas e intelectuales de la época otorgaron un significado histórico específico a las figuras y a los relatos del pasado nacional.

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...