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Hercules and the King of Portugal
Hercules and the King of Portugal investigates how representations of masculinity figure in the fashioning of Spanish national identity, scrutinizing ways that gender performances of two early modern male icons—Hercules and King Sebastian—are structured to express enduring nationhood. The classical hero Hercules features prominently in Hispanic foundational fictions and became intimately associated with the Hapsburg monarchy in the early sixteenth century. King Sebastian of Portugal (1554–78), both during his lifetime and after his violent death, has been inserted into his own land’s charter myth, even as competing interests have adapted his narratives to promote Spanish power. The h...
Divination on stage
Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses the fictionalisation of physiognomic lore as a practice of divination in early modern Romance theatre from Pietro Aretino and Giordano Bruno to Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca and Thomas Corneille.
Tirso de Molina
The first comprehensive study of Tirso de Molina and his work in English Tirso de Molina (c.1583-c.1648) may not have written El Burlador de Sevilla, but the works of this prolific author, one of the three pillars of Golden Age Spanish theatre, are notable for their erudition, complex characters, and wit. Informed by a multidisciplinary critical perspective, this volume sets Tirso's plays and prose in their social, historical, literary, and cultural contexts. Contributors from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Spain offer a state of the art in current scholarship, considering such topics as gender, identity, spatiality, material culture, and creative performativity, among others. The first volume in English to provide a richly detailed overview of Tirso's life and work, Tirso de Molina: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Twenty-First Century grounds the reader in canonical theories while suggesting new approaches, attuned to contemporary interests, to his legacy.
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Enjeux et perspectives de l'édition électronique
La vraie révolution du texte électronique est d'avoir réussi la synthèse de 2 modes de lecture anciens : celui du lecteur de l'Antiquité déroulant le texte et celui du lecteur médiéval utilisant toutes sortes de repérages internes - découpage, pagination, indexation. La dématérialisation du texte et la subséquente dissolution du livre, objet délinéarisable devenu plastique et buissonnant, conduisent à questionner les nouveaux modes de la transmission documentaire et à repenser notre rapport à la chose écrite. Les études réunies dans le présent opuscule apportent, chacune sous un angle d'attaque différent, un éclairage ciblé et innovant sur les enjeux mais aussi sur les interrogations que soulève l'édition électronique. Parmi les questions abordées figurent la place de la documentation numérique dans la bibliothèque, les rapports entre édition numérique et édition papier, les problèmes liés à la mise en place de corpus et de protocoles numériques ou le traitement informatisé des données textuelles.
Stratégies de l'Encuentro et du Desencuentro dans les textes hispaniques
Etude de la rencontre et du ratage de la rencontre dans les textes hispaniques. Véritable programme narratif, très rentable, la rencontre est la promesse de tous les rebondissements possibles et imaginables inhérents aux actions romanesques et dramatiques. Au contraire, une violence est à l'oeuvre dans le ratage de la rencontre qui dit la solitude ontologique du sujet.
Myths in Crisis
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 examines the crisis experienced by those myths which permeate the material world, investigating historical and fictitious characters, mythologized places, and languages. The volume is a remarkable collection of 30 texts that were selected from 300 proposals by prestigious researchers from over 30 countries during the 3rd International Conference of Myth Criticism held in Madrid in October 2014.
Trust and Hedging in International Relations
Revolutionary analysis of the risky role of trust in foreign policy through the assessment of European microstates and their partners
Looking Through Images
Images have always stirred ambivalent reactions. Yet whether eliciting fascinated gazes or iconoclastic repulsion from their beholders, they have hardly ever been seen as true sources of knowledge. They were long viewed as mere appearances, placeholders for the things themselves or deceptive illusions. Today, the traditional critique of the spectacle has given way to an unconditional embrace of the visual. However, we still lack a persuasive theoretical account of how images work. Emmanuel Alloa retraces the history of Western attitudes toward the visual to propose a major rethinking of images as irreplaceable agents of our everyday engagement with the world. He examines how ideas of images ...
