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Criticism of the Court and the Evil King in the Middle Ages
Criticism of the Court and the Evil King in the Middle Ages: Literary-Historical Analyses, identifies and discusses the discourse focused on the criticism of the court, specifically of the king, across medieval Europe. Tracing its development from the tenth through the fifteenth centuries, chapters examine Icelandic sagas, Old Spanish heroic epic poetry, courtly romances, early modern French and German prose novels, and late medieval short verse and prose narratives as well as the work of medieval critics such as John of Salisbury and Marsilius of Padua. Albrecht Classen explores how the writers used their craft creatively and covertly to voice harsh criticism of the ruling class and unearths a deep distrust of kings and other authority figures during the Middle Ages.
The Melancholy Void
At the turn of the seventeenth century, Spanish lyric underwent a notable development. Several Spanish poets reinvented lyric as a melancholy and masculinist discourse that sang of and perpetrated symbolic violence against the female beloved. This shift emerged in response to the rising prestige and commercial success of the epic and was enabled by the rich discourse on the link between melancholy and creativity in men. In The Melancholy Void Felipe Valencia examines this reconstruction of the lyric in key texts of Spanish poetry from 1580 to 1620. Through a study of canonical and influential texts, such as the major poems by Luis de Góngora and the epic of Alonso de Ercilla, but also lesse...
Resistance in the Iberian Worlds from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century
This book highlights the broad scope and span of resistance as a contentious practice in the early modern Iberian world. In this context, from the late Middle Ages onwards, resistance, rooted in the political and legal language of the ‘old regime’ that provided agents with legitimacy and resources for their actions, occurred mainly within the established jurisdictional system. These resources for litigation and demand made resistance a widespread kind of contesting practice related to wider protests. The authors assess the wide array of actions developed by individuals and communities to preserve their rights and identities, demonstrating how the Portuguese and Hispanic polities and thei...
Poetics and Politics
Far from teleological historiography, the pan-European perspective on Early Modern drama offered in this volume provides answers to why, how, where and when the given phenomena of theatre appear in history. Using theories of circulation and other concepts of exchange, transfer and movement, the authors analyze the development and differentiation of European secular and religious drama, within the disciplinary framework of comparative literature and the history of literature and concepts. Within this frame, aspects of major interest are the relationship between tradition and innovation, the status of genre, the proportion of autonomous and heteronomous creational dispositions within the artef...
Cartografía de la comunicación: un viaje por el diseño, la inteligencia artificial y la sociedad digital
En nuestros días los mapas ya no se trazan únicamente sobre el papel, sino que ahora se delinean con el flujo de datos, las redes y las interacciones digitales que nos rodean. Cada avance tecnológico al que asistimos —y han sido ya muchos en las primeras décadas de este siglo XXI— supone una transformación para las coordenadas del ámbito de la comunicación. La inteligencia artificial (IA) se ha convertido, en muy poco tiempo, en la brújula que redefine nuestra manera de enseñar y aprender, de crear o incluso de relacionarnos. Con aplicaciones y herramientas que se vuelven efímeras dentro de un mercado global en el que sus actores no cesan de evolucionar, el momento actual nos sitúa ante un escenario en constante mutación, donde la necesidad de comprender, interpretar y anticiparse a los cambios es tan urgente como a la vez desafiante. Todo ello nos obliga a repensar los mapas conceptuales con los que entendemos la comunicación, la educación y la cultura.
Betrayed
Trapped in an arranged marriage, Mariel Mendoza clings to the hope that one day her childhood sweetheart will rescue her from her dreaded fate. But when he leaves her to fight for the freedom of their beloved homeland, Mariel is forced to act the proper wife to wealthy plantation owner Antonio Aguliar. Soon, Mariel finds herself drawn to her seductive husband, and as revolution rages through Puerto Rico, finds herself walking a perilous line between treachery and passion.
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Re-Wiring the Ancient Novel
The Fifth International Conference on the Ancient Novel, which was held in Houston, Texas, in the fall of 2015, brought together scholars and students of the ancient novel from all over the world in order to share new and significant developments about this fascinating field of study and its important place in the field of Classical Studies. The essays contained in these two volumes are clear evidence that the ancient novel has become a valuable part of the Classics canon and its scholarly attempts to understand the ancient Graeco-Roman world.
Figures emblématiques de l'imaginaire politique espagnol
Cet ouvrage propose d'examiner la façon dont certains personnages politiques, qui ont marqué non seulement l'Espagne de leur temps mais encore la postérité, ont été exaltés, récupérés, réhabilités ou instrumentalisés à des fins qui les transcendent et occupent, de ce fait, une place privilégiée dans l'inconscient collectif. Adoptant un spectre temporel large, allant de la fin du Moyen-Âge à l'époque actuelle, l'enquête porte sur des hommes et des femmes politiques d'exception (rois, hommes d'État, chefs militaires, figures religieuses...) qui ont été mis au service de discours de légitimation ou de contestation du pouvoir.
