Metacritical Cervantes (Documentación Cervantina Tom Lathrop) by StephenHessel Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2018 by Juan De La Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs ISBN-13: 978-1-58871-315-5, ISBN: 1-58871-315-6
"Metacritical approaches to Miguel de Cervantes's prose, poems, and plays are nothing new. Lingering in the shadows of the great literary questions that have given form to the field of Cervantes studies,2 metacritical concerns have always been a formative factor in our understanding of the author, his work, and the state of modern genres such as the novel. Despite their lack of direct visibility over the last four centuries, scholars and ..."
"Una autentica sed de autonomia caracteriza a todas las obras de Cervantes, abrumadas por el peso del Quijote, pero tal objetiva necesidad reviste en el Persiles una urgencia especialisima, si bien se recuerda que para el autor este libro habia de ser su obra maestra. Al artista ya viejo, cansado, tal vez, del continuo sentirse llamar escritor festivo o regocijo de las musas, le habia de resultar imprescindible un triunfo de otro tipo, m ..."
"Chapter 4: Introducing Philology –Christopher J. Pountain, PhD Christopher J.
Pountain, PhD Lecturer in Spanish and Linguistics Queen Mary University of
London Dr Chris Pountain was Lecturer in Spanish and Linguistics in the
University of ..."
"This book is a unique scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from multiple angles to see how the re-accentuation of the world’s greatest literary hero takes place in film, theatre, and literature. To accomplish this task, eighteen scholars from the USA, Canada, Spain, and Great Britain have come together, and each of them has brought his/her unique perspective to the subject. For the first time, Don Quixote is discussed from the point ..."
"This book is a unique scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from multiple angles to see how the re-accentuation of the world’s greatest literary hero takes place in film, theatre, and literature. To accomplish this task, eighteen scholars from the USA, Canada, Spain, and Great Britain have come together, and each of them has brought his/her unique perspective to the subject. For the first time, Don Quixote is discussed from the point ..."
"What are fear, horror, and terror? This question, central to our endeavour, cannot be answered by one unified voice. It always cracks, falters, and fades before it can fully enunciate its proclamation. We, the authors, know this and have planned accordingly. This volume presents meditations on this issue springing from the four corners of intellectual inquiry. Each author provides a distinctive approach with which to address the iss ..."
"The essays of this volume show how Joyce's work engaged with the many upheavals and revolutions within the French nineteenth-century novel and its contexts. They delve into the complexities of this engagement, tracing its twists and turns, and reemerge with fascinating and rich discoveries. The contributors explore Joyce's explicit and implicit responses to Alexandre Dumas, Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo and Émile Zola and, of course, ..."
Fear Itself Reasoning the Unreasonable by StephenHessel and Miche`le Huppert by StephenHessel, Miche`Le Huppert 192 Pages, Published 2010 by Brill ISBN-13: 978-90-420-2807-4, ISBN: 90-420-2807-6
"... reflection on the generic heritage of terror.17 Knowledge of the past, tinged
with nostalgia, features in other forms too. ... When the babysitter arrives she
plays her music on an audio cassette rather than docking an MP3 player, the
horror ..."