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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 ...

This is the first modern edition and critical study of a dramatic courtly tale from 1655 by a forgotten woman writer of Spain's Golden Age. The extensive introduction and notes serve to restore the work to the literary history of its period and to relate it to contemporary tales by Lope de Vega, María de Zayas, and other masters of fiction after Cervantes.

Un ensayo fundamental sobre la melancolía en el Siglo de Oro español, clave para entender su presencia en la Europa moderna. La melancolía, que recorre la historia del mundo hasta nuestros días, es uno de los ejes fundamentales de la cultura renacentista y barroca, e impregna las obras de autores como Shakespeare o Montaigne. Ensayistas como Panofsky, Kristeva o Starobinski la han estudiado desde diversos ángulos, pero conceden escasa o nula atención a su relevancia en el Siglo de Oro español. Es precisamente en este periodo y escenario en el que Roger Bartra centra su atención. El...