La poética del esbozo

La aventura equinoccial de Lope de Aguirre (1964), basada en la histórica antiepopeya de la expedición capitoneada porun vasco a lo largo del Amazonas, ofrece un amplio y variado espectro de caracteres a la búsqueda de un imposible. Elmítico El Dorado se convierte en el centro vital de unas mentes estremecidas y agitadas que luchan contra sí mismas y contra el universo,plas- mado en una tierra indomable, la selva del Marañón, y enunos monarcas lejanos que recuerdan al dios del abandono. Un discurso exuberante, pleno de matices, ayuda a recrear la atmósfera sobrehumana de la tarumbo...

El 20 de mayo de 2016 tuvo lugar una intensa y emotiva jornada de estudio en honor a la poeta Ida Vitale, XXIV Premio Reina Sofía de Poesía Iberoamericana, que contó con la presencia de varios especialistas en la obra de la escritora uruguaya, así como con diversos críticos internacionales interesados en las particularidades e inflexiones temáticas y formales de su creación. Juan Antonio González Iglesias, Fernando Aínsa Amigues, José Luis Gómez Toré, Álvaro García, Gabriel Saad y Aurelio Major iluminaron desde distintos frentes y perspectivas teóricas, que abarcaron la...

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 ...

Benito Perez Galdos sought a new narrative structure which would revitalize the literary models prevalent in 19th-century Spain. He found such a structure in the creation of a dialogue between normally incompatible texts — between old and new, national and foreign, high culture and low. From the confrontation of these incongruous texts a narrative is born which, through the destruction of textual hierarchies, creates an ambiguous and often duplicitous texture of storytelling. Five paradigms, based upon five Novelas Contemporaneas, are used to exemplify the dialogical structure of the new...