Critical Practices in Post-Franco Spain
University of Minnesota Press
Published on 1. September 1994
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-8166-2473-7 (ISBN)
Description
This volume offers a sample of Spanish critical work in literary theory and cultural studies. Like all critical histories, Spain's is political: philology dominated the critical scene during the Franco years, and after Franco, this hegemony has been contested by semiotics, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis and feminism. Without trying to represent all the theoretical projects presently underway in Spanish criticism, this book opens a window on the vast field of new critical practices in Spain, and provides a general picture of influential theoretical currents. The essays collected here range widely in topic and style, and they reflect a new generation's preoccupation with critical problems that go beyond the field of literary studies. The authors focus on new discourse in various print and electronic media, on the discursive construction of the museum space, and on literary theory as it confronts issues of translation, subjectivity, writing and narratology. Jenaro Talens is the author of "The Branded Eye: Bunuel's 'Un Chien Andalou".
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
400 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8166-2473-7 (9780816624737)
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Persons
Editor
Professor of Literary Theory and Film, University of Valencia, Spain
Professor, Theory of Literature, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Introduction
Content
Representation making sense after Babel, Jenaro Talens; the television newscast - a postmodern discourse, Jesus Gonzalez Requena; architectures of the gaze, Santos Zunzunegui; aesthetics - text immutability, reader's freedom and aesthetic experience, Rafael Nunez-Ramos; phenomenology and pragmatics of literary realism, Dario Villanueva; the pragmatics of lyric poetry, Jose Maria Pozuelo-Yvancos; reading in process, the anti-text and the definition of literature, Manuel Asensi; subjectivity - subjectivity and temporality in narrative, Cristina Pena Marin; subject and language - reflections on Lacan and Jinkis, Juan Miguel Company.