Ironia On

Los cuatro textos de este volumen constituyen un hito en el pensamiento contemporáneo por tratarse de una de las primeras tomas de posición ante las tendencias de pesimismo cultural presentes en autores como T. S. Eliot ya a mediados del siglo XX. A partir de su concepto de «poscultura», Steiner formula una serie de réplicas de gran lucidez, belleza y atrevimiento, precisamente en un momento en que este pesimismo reaparece en todo su radicalismo y violencia. La cultura, nueva divinidad del siglo XX, había mostrado su impotencia ante la confianza puesta en ella al constatar que no pudo...

This study explores the interaction of language, culture and identity in contemporary Catalonia and rejects the exclusion of Castilian as a language capable of expressing 'Catalan-ness'. This study, charting the construction of a Catalan identity from the nineteenth-century cultural renaissance until the present day, explores the interaction of language, culture and identity in contemporary Catalonia. Drawing on postcolonial and multicultural literary theories, it argues that Castilian- and Catalan-language narratives are expressions of the same culture. Through detailed analyses of texts by...

Making a pact with the devil is not as easy as it looks. On one hand, you get fame and fortune for over 800 years, but, on the other hand, you have to become a vengeful being willing to condemn yourself to a lifetime of servitude. Prosper will try to avoid this by returning the devil Alastor to his world before he destroys her family. In order to accomplish this, she will have to avoid numerous traps, tricks, and Alastor's wicked sense of humor with only the help of her Uncle Barnabas, a witch's apprentice, and a cat with bat wings.

Der Dialog wird zunehmend als eine zentrale Gattung der Renaissanceliteratur erkannt. Ihr hybrider Charakter zwischen Fiktion und Sachtext macht Renaissancedialoge dabei in mehrfacher Hinsicht interessant - behandeln sie doch in fiktionalen Gesprachsszenarien theoretische Fragen. Einen Sonderweg geht die lukianeske Dialogtradition. Ihre haufig phantastischen Gesprachspartner machen das satirische Element stark. Dialoge aus Spanien und Portugal harren allerdings noch weitgehend ihrer Entdeckung. In diesem Band werden sie in herausragenden Beispielen vorgestellt und fuer den katalanischen und...