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Writing and Seeing
The essays in this volume are informed by a variety of theoretical assumptions and of critical methodologies, but they all share an interest in the intersections of word and image in a variety of media. This unifying rationale secures the present collection's central position in the current critical context, defined as it predominantly is by ways of reading that are based on a relational nexus. The intertextual, the intermedial, the intersemiotic are indeed foregrounded and combined in these essays, conceptually as much as in the critical practices favoured by the various contributions. Studies of literature in its relation to pictorial genres enjoy a relative prominence in the volume - but ...
Edward Thomas
Edward Thomas volunteered when he was 37 years old and a father of three and was killed, as an artillery officer, during the first hour of the Arras offensive, on April 9th, 1917. In the two years before his death, he wrote the 144 poems which ensured a place for him among the poets of his generation. Though all his poems had been written OC under stormOCOs wingOCO, Thomas was not a war poet in the sense that Owen, Sassoon or Rosenberg were war poets. Before he turned to poetry in December 1914, he..."
Modernism and the New Spain
Drawing on transnational literary studies, periodical studies translation studies, and comparative literary history 'Modernism and the New Spain' illuminates why Spain has remained a problematic space on the scholarly map of international modernisms.
The Crucible of Francoism
The July 1936 coup d'tat against the Spanish Second Republic brought together a diversity of anti-Republican political and social groups under the leadership of rebel Africanista military officers. In the ensuing Civil War this coalition gradually came under the rule of Generalissimo Franco. This volume explores the hypothesis that the violence and combat experiences of the war were the fundamental ideological crucible for the Francoist regime. The rebels were a group of reactionary and anti-liberal forces with little ideological or political coherence, but they emerged from the conflict not only victorious but ideologically united under the dictator's power. Key to understanding this transi...
The Reception of S. T. Coleridge in Europe
A collection of research on the European reception of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), the major Romantic poet and author of "The Ancient Mariner" one of the best known poems in British literature.
Waugh Without End
Compiled on the occasion of Evelyn Waugh's centenary in 2003, this collection of essays shows a renewed critical interest in the author extended by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. The contributions go back to an international symposium held at La Rioja University, 15-17 May 2003. Apart from traditional debate over questions of fact and interpretation, the book contains innovative approaches to Waugh's oeuvre, some of which make use of theories of discourse and media studies and denote an increasingly sophisticated awareness of his religious, political, and social contexts. Beginning with those essays presenting overviews of Waugh's life and work, and continuing with discussions of particular books in chronological order, this volume deals with a wide variety of aspects that confirm Waugh's rising status as a major twentieth-century classic.
John Huston
Years after his death, American filmmaker John Huston (1906-1987) remains an enigmatic and compelling figure. This wide-ranging collection of new essays encompasses a variety of topics relating to Huston's lifestyle, political activities and cinematic legacy. Fresh analyses of such films as Key Largo, The Asphalt Jungle, The African Queen, The Misfits and Prizzi's Honor are included along with insightful studies of Huston's oft-overlooked literary adaptations In This Our Life, Moby Dick and A Walk With Love and Death. Also evaluated are Huston's controversial World War II documentary Let There Be Light, and two a clef portraits of the "real" Huston in the films The Way We Were and White Hunter, Black Heart. Bookending these essays are revealing interviews with John's actress daughter Angelica Huston and film producer Wieland Schultz-Keil.
Larra en el mundo
Larra dejó para los lectores una imagen de España caracterizada por la rapidez de los cambios. Frente al Antiguo Régimen, de movimientos más lentos y estadios más duraderos, el Tiempo Nuevo iniciaba una aceleración que no se ha detenido. Sin embargo, en medio de esa máquina, sus trabajos implican una parada, la búsqueda de momentos para pensar, leer y escribir sobre su entorno, sobre sí mismo, y conformar una imagen en la retina del lector. Una imagen fragmentaria que, sin embargo, revela un todo. Si clásico es aquel autor que aún se lee y en el que las nuevas generaciones de lectores encuentran respuestas; si clásico es aquel autor que, aunque no se lee, está presente en la sociedad porque ésta alude a sus personajes, a sus creaciones, a frases que hizo famosas o incluso a él mismo, entonces hay que reconocer que Larra es doblemente clásico y que es de los pocos autores de nuestra literatura que está integrado, como Cervantes o Galdós, en nuestro imaginario y nos sirve para explicar nuestro entorno.
