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HisPANic AND PoRtuGuese LiteRAtuRe<br />
New seRies<br />
ANNouNceMeNt<br />
In 2014 Legenda will publish its first titles<br />
in a substantial new series to be called<br />
studies in Hispanic and Lusophone culture,<br />
which will be a major focus of next year's<br />
catalogue. the series is a collaboration with<br />
the Association of Hispanists of Great<br />
Britain and ireland, and we warmly welcome<br />
enquiries from authors: please contact the<br />
General editor, Professor trevor Dadson<br />
(t.j.dadson@qmul.ac.uk). sHLc covers not<br />
only spanish and Portuguese culture, from<br />
Latin America as well as the peninsular, but<br />
also minority cultures such as catalan or<br />
Basque. A fuller announcement will be made<br />
in the spring of 2013. see<br />
www.legendabooks.com/news for more<br />
information.<br />
A Sight for Sore Eyes<br />
The Surrealist Visuality of<br />
José María Hinojosa<br />
Jacqueline Rattray<br />
José María Hinojosa (1904–1936)<br />
has been credited with being a<br />
pioneer of surrealism in spain.<br />
He moved in the same circles as<br />
Buñuel and Dalí and was one of<br />
the key figures behind an attempt<br />
to form an organised group of<br />
spanish surrealists along the lines of the French<br />
model. And yet, the name of Hinojosa remains<br />
curiously neglected. He lived a relatively short but<br />
prolific literary life during which time he published<br />
some groundbreaking surrealist poetry and texts.<br />
His writing reveals a vision of surrealism which<br />
originates from a particularly spanish perspective<br />
as well as displaying many of those universally<br />
recognised surrealist motifs. one of these, the<br />
iconic image of the mutilated eye, forms the focal<br />
point of this present study on Hinojosa’s work. in<br />
keeping with the interdisciplinarity of surrealism,<br />
Hinojosa’s work is read here within the context of<br />
the visual arts — surrealist collage, paranoiac-critical<br />
activity and cinema. the impact of Hegelian thought<br />
upon Surrealism is reflected through the application<br />
of a ‘surrealist Dialectic’ in this exploration of<br />
Hinojosa’s surrealist visuality.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 73 8<br />
August 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
The Art of Ana Clavel<br />
Ghosts, Urinals, Dolls, Shadows and Outlaw<br />
Desires<br />
Jane elizabeth Lavery<br />
Ana clavel is a remarkable<br />
contemporary Mexican<br />
writer whose literary and<br />
multimedia œuvre is marked<br />
by its transgressive thrust and<br />
its queerness. that which<br />
steps beyond conventionally<br />
determined boundaries or the<br />
queer is evinced in the manner in<br />
which the author disturbs conceptions of the normal,<br />
not only by representing ‘outlaw’ sexualities and<br />
‘dark’ desires but also by incorporating into her fictive<br />
and multimedia worlds that which is at odds with<br />
normalcy as evinced in the presence of the fantastical,<br />
the shadow, ghosts, dolls, golems and even urinals.<br />
clavel’s literary trajectory follows a queer path<br />
in the sense that she has moved from singular<br />
modes of creative expression in the form of<br />
literary writing, a traditional print medium,<br />
towards other non-literary forms. Some of<br />
clavel’s works have formed the basis of wider<br />
multimedia projects involving collaboration with<br />
various artists, photographers, performers and it<br />
experts. Her works embrace an array of hybrid<br />
forms including the audiovisual, internet-enabled<br />
technology, art installation, (video) performance<br />
and photography. By foregrounding the outlaw<br />
heterogeneous narrative themes, techniques and<br />
multimedia dimension of clavel’s œuvre, the aim<br />
of this monograph is to attest to her particular<br />
contribution to Hispanic letters, which arguably is<br />
as significant as that of more established Spanish<br />
American boom femenino women writers.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 65 3<br />
2014 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
Pessoa in an Intertextual Web<br />
Influence and Innovation<br />
edited by David G Frier<br />
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935)<br />
is Portugal's most celebrated<br />
poet of the twentieth century,<br />
who wrote under the guise of<br />
dozens of literary personalities,<br />
or heteronyms. As well as his<br />
poetry, however, his work is<br />
marked by a constantly inventive<br />
and innovative engagement with authors and<br />
literary traditions from an astonishing variety<br />
of sources, placing him firmly in the worldwide<br />
literary canon. the present volume brings together<br />
a number of experts at the forefront of Pessoa<br />
studies internationally, with chapters examining his<br />
literary relations with italy, spain, France, england<br />
and Portugal, as well as his contextualisation in<br />
relation to major philosophers such as Kant and<br />
Nietzsche. it features essays examining his work<br />
from a range of perspectives to complement<br />
the multi-faceted nature of Pessoa himself<br />
(psychoanalytical, philosophical, political and<br />
artistic), and it includes consideration of his prose<br />
masterpiece The Book of Disquiet, as well as of<br />
various aspects of his poetic œuvre.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907747 93 9<br />
January 2012 • 200 pages • Hardback £45.00/US$89.50<br />
9<br />
Reading Literature in Portuguese<br />
cláudia Pazos Alonso and stephen Parkinson<br />
this collection brings together textual commentaries<br />
on thirty representative works of literature in<br />
Portuguese — either complete poems or extracts<br />
from longer works — ranging from the medieval<br />
lyric of the 13th century, through the poetry and<br />
drama of the Portuguese Renaissance, the great<br />
Realist novels of the 19th century, early 20th century<br />
Modernism and post-1974 writings through to the<br />
present day, while also including examples of 19th-<br />
and 20th- century Brazilian literature. The authors<br />
chosen — poets, dramatists and novelists — are<br />
generally regarded as iconic writers, and the three<br />
most famous canonical Portuguese authors (Luís<br />
de Camões, Fernando Pessoa, José Saramago) are<br />
featured, but the texts selected for commentary<br />
strike a balance between a focus on well-known and<br />
lesser-studied works.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 62 2<br />
August 2013 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
The Reinvention of Theatre in<br />
Sixteenth-Century Europe<br />
Traditions, Texts and Performance<br />
edited by t. F. earle and catarina Fouto<br />
the sixteenth century was<br />
an exciting period in the history<br />
of european theatre. in the<br />
iberian Peninsula, italy, France,<br />
Germany and england, writers<br />
and actors experimented with<br />
new dramatic techniques and<br />
found new publics. they<br />
prepared the way for the<br />
better-known dramatists of the<br />
next century but produced much work which is<br />
valuable in its own right, in Latin and in their own<br />
vernaculars. the popular theatre of the Middle<br />
Ages gave endless material for reinvention by<br />
playwrights, and the legacy of the ancient world<br />
became a spur to creativity, in tragedy and comedy.<br />
As soon as readers and audiences had taken in the<br />
new plays, they were changed again, taking new<br />
forms as the first experiments were themselves<br />
modified and reinvented. Writers constantly<br />
adapted the texts of plays to meet new<br />
requirements. these and other issues are explored<br />
by a group of international experts from a<br />
comparative perspective, giving particular emphasis<br />
to one of the great european comic dramatists, the<br />
Portuguese Gil Vicente.<br />
ISBN: 978 1 907975 76 9<br />
2014 • Hardback • £45.00/US$89.50<br />
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