The Dystopian Imagination in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film
The Dystopian Imagination in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film

Author: Diana Q. Palardy

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-07-27

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 3319928856

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This study examines contemporary Spanish dystopian literature and films (in)directly related to the 2008 financial crisis from an urban cultural studies perspective. It explores culturally-charged landscapes that effectively convey the zeitgeist and reveal deep-rooted anxieties about issues such as globalization, consumerism, immigration, speculation, precarity, and political resistance (particularly by Indignados [Indignant Ones] from the 15-M Movement). The book loosely traces the trajectory of the crisis, with the first part looking at texts that underscore some of the behaviors that indirectly contributed to the crisis, and the remaining chapters focusing on works that directly examine the crisis and its aftermath. This close reading of texts and films by Ray Loriga, Elia Barceló, Ion de Sosa, José Ardillo, David Llorente, Eduardo Vaquerizo, and Ricardo Menéndez Salmón offers insights into the creative ways that these authors and directors use spatial constructions to capture the dystopian imagination.

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Miguel de Unamuno
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Miguel de Unamuno

Author: Luis Álvarez-Castro

Publisher: Modern Language Association

Published: 2020-04-01

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1603294430

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A central figure of Spanish culture and an author in many genres, Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) is less well known outside Spain. He was a surprising writer and thinker: a professor of Greek who embraced metafiction and modernist methods, a proponent of Castilian Spanish although born in the Basque Country and influenced by many international writers, and an early existentialist who was yet religious. He found himself in opposition to both King Alfonso XIII and the military dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera and then became involved in the political upheaval that led to the Spanish Civil War. Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," gives information on different editions and translations of Unamuno's works, on scholarly and critical secondary sources, and on Web resources. The essays in part 2, "Approaches," offer suggestions for introducing students to the range of his works--novels, essays, poetry, and drama--in Spanish language and literature, comparative literature, religion, and philosophy classrooms.

Making Sense of Popular Culture
Making Sense of Popular Culture

Author: Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2017-05-11

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1443892645

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The study of popular culture has come of age, and is now an area of central concern for the well-established domain of cultural studies. In a context where research in popular culture has become closely intertwined with current debates within cultural studies, this volume provides a selection of recent insights into the study of the popular from cultural studies perspectives. Dealing with issues concerning representation, cultural production and consumption or identity construction, this anthology includes chapters analysing a range of genres, from film, television, fiction, drama and print media to painting, in various contexts through a number of cultural studies-oriented theoretical and methodological orientations. The contributions here specifically focus on a wide variety of issues ranging from the ideological construction of identities in print media to the narratives of the postmodern condition in film and fiction, through investigations into youth, the dialogue between the canon and the popular in Shakespeare, and the so-called topographies of the popular in spatial and visual representation. In exploring the interface between cultural studies and popular culture through a number of significant case studies, this volume will be of interest not only within the fields of cultural studies, but also within media and communication studies, film studies, and gender studies, among others.

Ideology, Politics and Demands in Spanish Language, Literature and Film
Ideology, Politics and Demands in Spanish Language, Literature and Film

Author: Teresa Fernandez Ulloa

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2012-03-15

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 1443838594

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This book comprises various chapters which explore a variety of topics related to the manner in which ideological and epistemological changes in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries shaped the Spanish language, literature, and film, among other forms of expression, in both Spain and Latin America, and how these media served the purpose of spreading ideas and demands. There are articles on ideological representations of linguistic differences and sameness; linguistic changes associated with loan words and the ideas they bring in modifying our communicative landscape; the role of the Catholic religion on the construction of our dictionary; analysis of some political discourses, ideologies and social imaginaries; new visions of old literature (a return to the parody in the Middle Ages to analyze its moderness) and postmodern narrative; discussions on contemporary Spanish poetry and Central American literature; a new return to the liberation philosophy by analyzing Ellacuría´s work; and several studies about concepts such as capitalism, patriarchy, identity, masculinity, homosexuality, globalization, and the Resistence in several forms of expression.

New Spain, New Literatures
New Spain, New Literatures

Author: Luis Martín-Estudillo

Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press

Published: 2010-09-27

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0826517250

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Hispanic Studies; Literature; Latin American Studies.

El viaje concluido
El viaje concluido

Author: Francisco Manuel Mariño

Publisher: Universidad de Valladolid Secretariado de Publicaciones E Intercambio Editorial

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13:

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De un tiempo a esta parte, la literatura relacionada con el mundo de los viajes se ha convertido en foco de atención de numerosos estudios y congresos.En esta ocasión los coordinadores de este libro proponen un nuevo acercamiento a la cuestión desde otra perspectiva; se persigue el análisis del motivo del retorno -en cuanto a la materialización completa del viaje- con sus múltiples ramificaciones.