Another paper on Salman Rushdie, in:

Santaolalla, Isabel, ed. “New” Exoticisms: Changing Patterns in the Construction of Otherness. (Postmodern Studies 29). Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000.* Online texts in Google Books.         https://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/newexoticisms.html

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AND  a paper on Pestilent Fictions: “The Plague of Utopias” by Elana Gomel: https://www.academia.edu/38558965/

I’ve begun reading this issue and I heartily recommend it, and for good measure also Dylan’s latest album, Rough and Rowdy Ways, which is one of his best in many years.  As to myself I don’t write on Dylan, but I do Dylan anyway. This one is ‘Things Have Changed’—which they have. https://youtu.be/X2FNmG17uds

José M. Yebra is a colleague of mine. One can learn new things about one’s colleagues here. By the way, I will include the references announced in these sections in my online bibliography, http://bit.ly/abibliog

Title/topic: European Popular Literatures and Their Sociocultural Implications.
Guest editors: Asunción López-Varela (Universidad Complutense, Madrid, alopezva@ucm.es ), Antonio Ballesteros-González (UNED, aballesteros@flog.uned.es )
Deadlines: Abstracts (300 words) and bioprofiles (50 words) should be sent to guest editors by 30 September 20…[Read more]

Yebra, José M. The Poetics of Otherness and Transition in Naomi Alderman’s Fiction. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. ISBN: 978-1-5275-4360-7

Now out is the third issue (Volume 2.1, summer 2020) of the Dylan Review, the open-access online journal launched in 2019 and dedicated to the academic study of Bob Dylan’s work, and of which I am an editorial board member. The new issue is available at:https://www.dylanreview.org/vol-2-1-summer-2020(for the earlier issues, see entries on my bl…[Read more]

Thank you José Ángel! The blog “This Huge Stage” includes relevant publications in this field and all members of the group will find it very useful.

Indeed, drama has not always been considered as literature, but rather as entertainment. Fortunately, its reputation has gradually grown and today theatrical studies are a fruitful research area.

Great, José Ángel, thanks for sharing.

Thanks, Nora; I will include them in my online bibliography, and I will do the same with other publications shared here. Another one. This one is not strictly mine, but I am one of the advisors to this series, so here goes. The Narratologia series, published by de Gruyter, includes volumes on narratological theory and criticism, both in German and…[Read more]