Books in the Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas series

This book focuses on the novel Paradiso of Cuban author José Lezama Lima (1910-1976), and in particular on the protagonist José Cemí. It examines the development of Cemí according to the three distinct phases detailed by Lezama: the ¿placentariö world of family protection, the awakening to the exterior world and the subsequent friendships made, and the eventual encounters with Oppiano Licario. Cemí¿s progression, and his growing ability to interpret and create texts, is analysed as analogous to the reader¿s progression through the novel. In this respect, both the reader and Cemí are obliged to interpret the complex symbolism according to interpretative skills acquired from the text itself. In a similar fashion, the connection between Cemí¿s ¿guide¿ Licario, and the author Lezama is investigated. By exploring these connections between reader and protagonist, author and character, the author of this work suggests a radical and hitherto unexplored approach to the text of Lezama.

Questions about dependence and independence are of crucial importance in relation to Latin America, given the region's history and its current situation. This book examines central issues relating to these two notions in the Latin American context, offering twelve different studies of the themes in question.

Shows how the reuse, recycling and development of material becomes one of the hallmarks of Ramon del Valle-Inclan's writing during the first three decades of his literary career, linking one genre with another and blurring the borders between different aesthetics.

A collection of essays developed from the meetings of the 'Poetics of Resistance' network in Leeds (2008) and Santiago de Compostela (2009). It contains contributions from an international group of researchers and cultural producers, who are committed to the activation, promotion and analysis of counter-hegemonic practices.

This book offers a transdisciplinary perspective on the cultural impact of the Great War in the Mediterranean territories. With a comparative approach, the great variety of representations of the 'theatre of war' are presented, as well as their impact in journalism and fiction of the following decades.

This collection of new essays focuses on key questions within the rapidly growing field of Iberian studies. From a comparative European perspective, the essays question the concept of 'Iberian' itself, query its suitability as a starting point for research and consider it in relation to more established concepts and identities.

This book analyses the ideas of memory, truth and justice in the context of the trials for crimes against humanity in Argentina, from the presidency of Raul Alfonsin to current developments under Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Judges, lawyers, historians, journalists and witnesses give a lucid and critical reconstruction of the last 30 years.

Este libro estudia la situacion que guarda actualmente la literatura, el arte y la cultura hispanica en relacion con otras tradiciones culturales y literarias extranjeras. No es solo una puesta al dia de los mas recientes debates de la teoria literaria y las metodologias de analisis, sino tambien ahonda en un periodo poco explorado.