Este trabajo analiza los espacios dramáticos del teatro de Juan del Encina, sus funciones y su potencialidad escénica. La noción de «espacio dramático» deriva de la teoría semiótica, que considera las referencias locativas en el texto dramático como parte del espacio ficticio teatral y examina el modo en el que todas ellas conjugan el espacio…[Read more]

Me propongo en estas páginas realizar un análisis de los elementos teatrales preservados en la Égloga de Cristino y Febea de Juan del Encina. El objetivo de este trabajo es recuperar los elementos teatrales de la Égloga de Cristino y Febea para demostrar que, pese a la casi ausencia de acotaciones explícitas, Juan del Encina sí tiene prese…[Read more]

Partiendo de la dualidad del texto dramático, como texto literario y espectacular, y con la convicción de que para estudiar el género teatral, en especial el quinientista, es necesaria una mirada bajo la óptica de la semiótica, este trabajo focaliza un análisis del Auto del repelón de Juan del Encina desde la perspectiva del carácter plurisí…[Read more]

Topografías literarias: el espacio en la literatura hispánica de la Edad Media al siglo XXI

Desde la convicción de la dualidad del texto dramático, como texto literario y espectacular, y del convencimiento de que para estudiar el género teatral, en concreto el quinientista, es necesaria una mirada bajo la óptica de la semiótica, este trabajo focaliza el análisis del corpus teatral del dramaturgo Juan del Encina a partir la persp…[Read more]

RESUMEN El presente trabajo pretende estudiar la existencia de una configuración tópica del pastor teatral conformado a lo largo de las obras dramáticas de Juan del Encina. Para ello, analizo la vestimenta pastoril más frecuente en el personaje mediante el rastreo de las diversas didascalias icónicas implícitas que recorren los diálogos. Desde…[Read more]

RESUMEN Asumiendo los planteamientos de la semiótica teatral, que defiende la dualidad del texto dramático, este trabajo de investigación focaliza el análisis del texto espectacular de la Comedia de BrasGil y Beringuella de Lucas Fernández (1474-1542), publicada en la imprenta salmantina de Lorenzo Liom Dedei en 1514 junto con el resto de sus obra…[Read more]

Resumen Este trabajo examina las relaciones entre el teatro castellano y el teatro portugués mediante el análisis del espacio escenográfico de la Representación a la Pasión y muerte de Nuestro Redentor de Juan del Encina, del Auto de la Pasión de Lucas Fernández y del Auto da Alma de Gil Vicente. Para ello, se emplea una metodología eclécti…[Read more]

About four decades ago, the two modern editions of the Cancionero de obras de burlas (19OB),2 of Domínguez (1978) and Jauralde Pou-Bellón
Cazabán (1974), finnally condemned to its deserved obscurity Usoz y Río’s 1841 edition. Even though both his edition and his library on spiritual
topics have an evident archaeological interest (Vilar), the q…[Read more]

Although there were many handwritten, often informal catalogues of Sir Robert Cotton’s manuscripts and books during his lifetime and in the years afterwards, the desire for an official printed catalogue which could be circulated in the public realm did not really bear fruit until the late 1600s. And when two versions finally did appear — the…[Read more]

This essay comprises four parts, each by one of the co-bloggers at In the Middle (http://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com). Karl Steel argues that the benefits of academic blogging outweigh its potential humiliations, and that academic conferences should post their papers publicly and allow for comments so that conferences, in a sense, never end.…[Read more]

An overview of the “state of the field” of critical posthumanist studies that also argues for the important intervention of premodern studies into contemporary critical posthumanism studies, and which serves as the Introduction (with chapter summaries) to “Fragments for a History of a Vanishing Humanism,” eds. Myra Seaman and Eileen A. Joy (Ohio…[Read more]

What can be said about the “style” of academic discourse at the present time, especially in relation to historical method, theory, and reading literary and historical texts? Is style merely supplemental to scholarly substance? As scholars, are we “subjects” of style? And what is the relationship between style and theory? Is style an object,…[Read more]

What can be said about the “style” of academic discourse at the present time, especially in relation to historical method, theory, and reading literary and historical texts? Is style merely supplemental to scholarly substance? As scholars, are we “subjects” of style? And what is the relationship between style and theory? Is style an object,…[Read more]

This Prelude to L.O. Aranye Fradenburg’s book STAYING ALIVE makes the case for Fradenburg’s career as comprising a critically important dossier relative to the relationship(s) between desire, enjoyment, groupification, signification, and disciplinarity, especially with regard to techniques of living, the care of the self (and others), and the…[Read more]

My poetic Preface to Kathleen Biddick’s book, “Make and Let Die: Untimely Sovereignties” (punctum books, 2016), which is indebted to and adapted from Adrienne Rich’s poem “Diving into the Wreck,” which sketches out the exploratory soundings of a sea-wreck of forgotten histories that bears uncanny resonances with Kathleen Biddick’s own acediou…[Read more]

This essay argues for the consideration of energy and an energy-based humanities model in the study of water in the Middle Ages. It also proposes that ‘energy’, when discussed in the context of the Middle Ages, is in fact a study of ‘energies’, derived from technology, material culture, and intellectual culture in equal measure. It propose…[Read more]

The introduction to a special issue of the Journal of Narrative Theory, edited by Eileen Joy and Christine Neufeld, on “Premodern to Modern Humanisms: The BABEL Project.” This essay sketches out a blueprint for pursuing new “critical humanisms” in a post/human age.

This special issue of the “Journal of Narrative Theory” represents one of the BABEL Working Group’s first forays into a collaborative and “baggy” humanistic scholarship between medieval studies, more contemporary humanistic studies, and the sciences, with the objective of interrogating together the open terms, “human,” “humanity,” “humanism,”…[Read more]

This essay considers Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy of hospitality in relation to the “isolated and heroic being that the state produces by its virile virtues,” through an analysis of female Chechen suicide terrorists in contemporary Russia and the figure of Grendel in the Old English poem “Beowulf,” in order to raise some questions about the relat…[Read more]