Critical Practices in Post-Franco Spain

Ed. Silvia López, Jenaro Talens, and Santos Zunzunegui
Offers a sampling of Spanish critical work in literary theory and cultural studies in the post-Franco period, with a focus on new discourses 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Politics of Theory in Post-Franco Spain

Silvia L. López, Jenaro Talens, and Darío Villanueva

Part I. Representation

1. Making Sense after Babel

   Jenaro Talens

2. The Television Newscast: A Postmodern Discourse

   Jesús Gonzalez-Requena

3. Architectures of the Gaze

   Santos Zunzunegui

   Part II. Aesthetics

4. The Immutability of the Text, the Freedom of the Reader, and Aesthetic Experience

   Rafael Núñez-Ramos

5. Phenomenology of Pragmatics of Literary Realism

   Darío Villanueva

6. The Pragmatics of Lyric Poetry

   José María Pozuelo-Yvancos

7. Reading in Process, the Antitext, and the Definitions of Literature

   Manuel Asensi

   Part III. Subjectivity

8. Subjectivity and Temporality in Narrative

   Cristina Peña-Marín

9. Subject and Language: Reflections on Lacan and Jinkis

   Juan Miguel Company-Ramón

Afterword: Aesthetics and Politics

Tom Lewis