Critical Practices in Post-Franco Spain

Critical Practices in Post-Franco Spain

Silvia López, Jenaro Talens, and Darío Villanueva, editors

OUT OF PRINT

Looks at critical theory and practices in Spain in the post-Franco period.

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 feminisms. 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 wth 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.

"What is most important is that the book, with its broad scope, casts a wide net, covering every critical and theoretical concern. For me personally, the greatest value of the volume is its demonstration that the Spanish intellectual and academic world is not a spectator to theory and criticism, that with the work of the essayists assembled here Spain is an international player of the first rank. I recommend highly to anyone interested in literary and critical theory, and anyone who thinks that Spanish criticism is a follower and not a leader. The book should be required reading for all students of literary and theoretical criticism." —World Literature Today

Silvia López is a doctoral candidate in the departments of cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. Jenaro Talens is professor of literary theory and film at the University of Valencia. He is the author of The Branded Eye: Buñuel's Un Chien Andalou. Darío Villanueva is professor of theory of literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

208 pages | 1994
Hispanic Issues Series, volume 11



Critical Practices in Post-Franco Spain Silvia López, Jenaro Talens, and Darío Villanueva, editors		OUT OF PRINT
Looks at critical theory and practices in Spain in the post-Franco period. 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 feminisms. 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 wth 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. "What is most important is that the book, with its broad scope, casts a wide net, covering every critical and theoretical concern. For me personally, the greatest value of the volume is its demonstration that the Spanish intellectual and academic world is not a spectator to theory and criticism, that with the work of the essayists assembled here Spain is an international player of the first rank. I recommend highly to anyone interested in literary and critical theory, and anyone who thinks that Spanish criticism is a follower and not a leader. The book should be required reading for all students of literary and theoretical criticism." —World Literature Today Silvia López is a doctoral candidate in the departments of cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. Jenaro Talens is professor of literary theory and film at the University of Valencia. He is the author of The Branded Eye: Buñuel's Un Chien Andalou. Darío Villanueva is professor of theory of literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 208 pages \| 1994 Hispanic Issues Series, volume 11