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Alfons Gregori i Gomis
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Introduction
My current research interests are nonmimetic literature, gender studies, contemporary popular music, and literary translation.
Education
October 1993 - June 1998
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Publications (43)
Ana Casas & David Roas (ed.), Zona de penumbra: antología del cuento fantástico en el fin de siglo y el modernismo. León: Eolas, 2021. 163 pp.
En el present estudi s’analitzen comparativament dues traduccions del relat de Jaume Cabré “Opus pòstum” (Viatge d’hivern, 2000) publicades en llengua polonesa per Anna Sawicka i Barbara Łuczak, respectivament. D’acord amb la dominant que fixa l’orientació de la lectura del relat, es focalitzarà, d’una banda, en les expressions que denoten moviment...
As part of historically minorized culture, Catalan literature endured difficult periods, e.g., the Francoist regime. To imagine different worlds writing in this language was even more arduous in the 20th century because of the negative attitude towards the fantastic shared by two fundamental trends of Catalan literature up to the 1970s: Noucentisme...
Review of: Jodra Llorente, S.; Benito del Valle Eskauriaza, A. (eds) (2020). Arte, literatura y feminismos: lenguajes plásticos y escritura en Euskal Herria . Madrid; Frankfurt: Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 321 pp.
El presente artículo constituye una aportación al estudio de las cuestiones sociopolíticas en la literatura no mimética a la luz del concepto de paria. El objetivo del trabajo ha sido analizar el uso de lo fantástico y proyectivo con respecto a la representación de los parias bien como víctimas, bien como victimarios-vengadores. Tras una aproximaci...
El título de este libro ilustra diversas cuestiones de elevado interés en la actualidad, aunque esto no significa que no lo fueran en el pasado ni que dejarán de serlo en el futuro. Por un lado, la focalización en la creación femenina, que a pesar de los pesares continúa padeciendo el peso del androcentrismo, actitudes ideológicas y limitaciones le...
Reseña de los cinco primeros número de la colección Las Puertas de lo Posible, dirigida por Natalia Álvarez Méndez en Eolas ediciones.
Ressenya sobre el llibre de Maria Conca & Josep Guia, A frec del seu nom: vida, obra i lluita de Xavier Romeu, Lleida, Edicions El Jonc, 2018, 507 p., ISBN: 978-84-93-8705-9-1.
L’atorgament del premi Nobel de literatura a Bob Dylan va suposar la culminació d’una concepció dels textos de la música popular com a literatura. A l’Estat espanyol aquesta línia de pensament ha servit de base per a força treballs acadèmics, que en general han minimitzat l’aspecte musical de l’obra artística i, en alguns casos, ns i tot el context...
Presentation of the monogrph issue coordinated by Alfons Gregori. Fantastic and ideology: a misunderstanding that still stalks us
Amb la voluntat de contribuir a l’escassament estudiada literatura fantàstica catalana, el present article és una aproximació a dos dels motius cabdals d’aquesta modalitat literària, és a dir, els fantasmes i els esperits encarnats. Així, partim d’un fonament teòric interdisciplinari a l’entorn de la funció imaginativa de l’ésser humà per tal d’ana...
This paper analyses two contemporary examples of literatures written in minority languages which are not official in the whole area of Iberian Peninsula, and namely the literatures in Aranese and Astur-Leonese. In this analysis, the conceptualization of polysystem theory has been
applied, to the conclusion that both literatures suffer a low extent...
The present article analyzes the function of ideology, history, and genre conventions in Jaume Fuster’s “mythical novel”, that is to say, the trilogy composed of the following works: L’Illa de les Tres Taronges (1983), L’Anell de Ferro (1985) i El Jardí de les Palmeres (1993). Attention will be paid to Fuster’s double condition of writer and activi...
The fantastic represents a wide and heterogeneous field in literary, cultural, and media studies. Encompassing some of the field's foremost voices such as Fred Botting and Larissa Lai, as well as exciting new perspectives by junior scholars, this volume offers a mosaic of the fantastic now. The contributions pinpoint and discuss current development...
Invisibility is the main motif of two non-mimetic novels belonging to the Catalan and Spanish literature respectively: Vermell de Cadmi [Cadmium Red] (1984) by Margarida Aritzeta, and Los invisibles [The Invisible] (2000) by José Mariá Merino. The aim of the present article is to compare both novels by analysing how the dialectical process between...
El presente artículo constituye una aproximación a las vertientes reivindicativa y traumática de la figura de Sabino Ordás, con el objetivo de determinar la relación entre la cuestión sociopolítica y cultural, por un lado, y la casuística traumática o estructura afectiva que impelía el proceso de escritura de Ordás. De este modo, tomando en conside...
The main aim of this article is to analyse the complexity of the subject of memory in the work of Jesus Moncada, as an author from Aragon writing in Catalan and introducing the Spanish Civil War issue in fantastic fiction, namely in Històries de la mà esquerra [Stories of the Left Hand] (1981). Furthermore, the short story that closes the book, “D’...
Review of Josep-Anton Fernàndez & Jaume Subirana (Eds.): Funcions del passat en la cultura catalana contemporània: institucionalització, representacions i identitat
Abstrakt
Ramon Vinyes has been known in the literary world because of his being mentioned in García Márquez’s Cien años de soledad as a fictional character, “the Catalan sage”. In fact, he was a poet, playwright and short story writer, who did create his works in his homeland, as well as in Colombia during his exile years, though always writing in...
In the present work the author analyzes the function and meanings of the conjunction of fantastic elements and allusions to Republican ideologies and policies in Moncada’s short stories, essentially those contained in his first complete collection, Històries de la mà esquerra (1981). The work presents a deeper insight into two representative of the...
Le Spill de Jaume Roig ou l'impossibilité du bon mariage Jaume Roig's Espill, or the impossibility of a good marriage Abstract Jaume Roig's Espill constitutes one of the masterpieces in the history of Catalan literature. On the pages of the present article the attention will be put on one of its main thematic subjects, that is marriage, treated on...
This article analyzes the construction of El complot dels anells (The plot of the rings), a Catalan political fiction artifact that was created as both a film and a novel in 1988. To this end, not only the fundamental sociopolitical and cultural contexts have been taken into account, but also the point of view M. O?Brian, an Irish American journali...
The central issue of this book is to analyse fantastic short stories published from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first century by authors writing in Spanish and Catalan. The author studies the role that ideological elements play so that they increase the possible meanings of fantastic literature. Special attention is given to some them...
Abstrakt
Tzvetan Todorov typified the literary fantastic as an autonomous gender in 1970, separating it from marvelous texts and other bordering modes that contained unreal or supernatural elements. In the Latin-American Hispanic studies his model and several other views about fantastic literature encouraged an advancing body of important theorizi...
Tzvetan todorov typified the literary fantastic as an autonomous gender in 1970, separating it from marvelous texts and other bordering modes that contained unreal or supernatural elements. In the Latin- -American Hispanic studies his model and several other views about fantastic literature encouraged an advancing body of important theorizing, more...
Dealing with discourses produced in Contemporary Popular Music, it is usual in contemporary youth's imaginary to fi nd rock considered as metonymic with authenticity, remaining as a movement an outstanding extension of Romanticism. Then, when drawing out its motifs from Satanism, successful rock lyrics need a rhetorical stylization in order to cons...
Artykuł ten zawiera krótką analizę dorobku dwóch otwarcie gejowskich zespołów tworzących muzykę disco-pop – Ellos i Astrud – oraz próbę wyjaśnienia zależności między wspomnianą wyżej strukturą a ich muzyką i tekstami z punktu widzenia ich publicznie (nie)możliwego ukazania kategorii gender poprzez rytm/melodię i język.
The essay Littérature et engagement: De Pascal à Sartre, written by the Belgian Benoît Denis, presents several critical problems about poetry and commitment. In the present article we will analyze some of these questions taking into the account some important points about the changing of connotations and interpretations on forms of poetry and on po...
Being one of the best-known poets of the still-alive vanguard generation in Catalonia because of his poignant poems recitations, in his book Comenęament dels comenęaments i ocasió de les ocasions (Beginning o f Beginnigs and Occasion o f Occasions) Enric Casassas rebuilds a medieval composition, the in-baroque-times-developed sextina, which takes t...
The aim of the present paper is to determine several fissures and inconsistencies leading to unsolvable ambiguities of meaning in Manuel de Pedrolo’s novel Typescript of the second origin by means of a critical analysing of its linguistic and ideological issues, specially its religious groundwork – which is both stylistic and related to ideological...
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