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Discordant Notes
Based on a study of Madrid (1850-1930), Discordant Notes argues that sound, noise, street music and flamenco have played a key role in structuring the transition to modernity by helping to negotiate social attitudes and legal responses to fundamental problems such as poverty, insalubrity, and crime.
The Reception of Jane Austen in Europe
This volume of international research provides a wide-ranging account of Jane Austen's reception across the length and breadth of Europe, from Russia and Finland in the North to Italy and Spain in the South. In historical terms, the survey ranges from the near-contemporary - since Austen's novels were available in French very soon after their original publication - to modern times, in those countries which for various reasons, linguistic, historical or ideological, have taken up the novels only in recent years. For many, Austen's novels are valued for their romantic content, as love stories, but increasingly they are being perceived as sophisticated, ironic narratives. In this, the quality of translation has been a significant factor and the many film and television adaptations have played an important part in establishing Austen's reputation amongst the public at large. It will be seen from this that across Europe Austen's 'reception history' is far from uniform and has been shaped by a complex of extra-literary forces.
George Gissing and the Place of Realism
This collection explores Gissing’s place in the narrative of fin-de-siècle literature. Together, chapters here theorise how late-Victorian spatial and generic norms are confronted, explored and performed in Gissing’s works. In addition to presenting new readings of the major novels and introducing readers to lesser-known works, the collection advocates Gissing’s importance as a journalist, short story, and travel writer. It also recognises Gissing as a central proponent in the late-Victorian realism debate. The book, like today’s nineteenth-century studies, is interdisciplinary. It includes familiar interpretive approaches—biographical, historicist, and comparative—together with fresh perspectives informed by ecocriticism, materiality, and cultural performance. In addition, it is markedly comparative in scope. Gissing is read alongside familiar authors like Dickens, Ruskin, and Hardy, but also, and more unusually, Nietzsche, Besant, Freud and Foucault. Collectively, these chapters illustrate that Gissing, though attentive to contemporary issues, is neither uncomplicatedly realist nor are his writings uncomplicated historical records of place.
A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula
Volume 2 of A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula brings to an end this collective work that aims at surveying the network of interliterary relations in the Iberian Peninsula. No attempt at such a comparative history of literatures in the Iberian Peninsula has been made until now. In this volume, the focus is placed on images (Section 1), genres (Section 2), forms of mediation (Section 3), and cultural studies and literary repertoires (Section 4). To these four sections an epilogue is added, in which specialists in literatures in the Iberian Peninsula, as well as in the (sub)disciplines of comparative history and comparative literary history, search for links between Volumes 1 and 2 from the point of view of general contributions to the field of Iberian comparative studies, and assess the entire project that now reaches completion with contributions from almost one hundred scholars.
Lugares de sabios. Bibliotecas privadas y ambientes de lectura en el Barroco
La llegada del mundo moderno trajo consigo la posibilidad de aumentar exponencialmente los niveles de aprendizaje y de lectura. Todo el que se lo podía permitir disfrutaba adquiriendo nuevos volúmenes impresos, se afanaba acumulando sus ejemplares en lustrosas colecciones personales y, para acabar, daba cuenta del conocimiento recopilado en lugares específicos de la casa donde la decoración y los objetos expuestos contribuían a construir una imagen simbólica del propietario. El presente libro centra la atención en el aspecto físico de esos espacios y en la clase de lecturas que en la Zaragoza barroca pudieron llegar a hacerse entre todos aquellos que quisieron darse a conocer como personas cultas.
Sobre Jean-Paul Sartre
El presente volumen recoge las seis aproximaciones que Manuel Sacristán realizó a la obra de Jean-Paul Sartre entre 1958 y 1980. En estos materiales, dos de ellos inéditos, se puede apreciar la conocida capacidad de análisis del filósofo español aplicada a uno de los pensadores más influyentes del panorama intelectual del siglo xx. Las diferencias entre el pensamiento teórico de Sartre y el de Sacristán son manifiestas, si bien comparten un claro compromiso ético y político por la transformación socialista de la sociedad. Se incluye un estudio preliminar y un importante aparato crítico compuesto de notas de edición y notas complementarias.
