About
I am a Senior lecturer in English at the University of Zaragoza (Spain), and I specialise in literary theory and narratology. I keep going back to (and perhaps working on) a number of ideas and their interface: the evolutionary nature of reality, the narrative articulation of representations, the dramatistic structure of the human world and mind, and the virtuality of the world generated by human attention and interactions. The study of “Evolutionary narratology” and of “The Great Theatre of the World” are two possible routes through this complex of ideas. Education
MA in English, Brown University,
PhD in Humanities (English philology) University of Zaragoza, Spain
Primary school at Biescas (Huesca); high school at Sabiñánigo (Huesca). Work Shared in CORE
Articles
- Algunos Elementos Metaficcionales
- ‘The Enthusiastick Fit’: The Function and Fate of the Poet in Samuel Johnson’s ‘Rasselas’
- Stanley E. Fish’s Speech Acts
- ‘And he wondered’: Imágenes del lector en la novela de Beckett
- El centro ausente: ‘El Innombrable’ de Beckett
- Authorial Intention in Literary Hermeneutics: On Two American Theories
- Personne: Aventuras de ‘yo’ en la trilogía de Beckett
- Narratology and Rhetoric—Scientific Terminology?
- La structure de ‘La Mort le Roi Artu’
- Notes on Metafiction
- Medieval Criticism: Poetics, Aesthetics, and Hermeneutics
- Le Traitement des personnages dans ‘Le Couronnement de Louis’ et ‘Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne’
- Notes on Richard E. Palmer’s ‘Hermeneutics: Interpretation Theory in Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger and Gadamer’
- The Chains of Semiosis: Semiotics, Marxism, and the Female Stereotypes in ‘The Mill on the Floss’
- Reflexivity in the Narrative Technique of ‘As I Lay Dying’
- Samuel Johnson’s ‘Rasselas’: The Duplicity of Choice and the Sense of an Ending
- Reading ‘The Monster’: The Interpretation of Authorial Intention in the Criticism of Narrative Fiction
- Reading Racism: The Assumption of Authorial Intentions in Stephen Crane’s ‘The Monster’
- “Another game in vew”: The representation of the poet in ‘The Faerie Queene’
- Los conceptos básicos de la narratología
- Literary Theory: Introduction and Greek Origins
- Derrida, ‘Limited Inc.’, Normativity
- Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Nihilism, and Arbitrariness
- On Metacriticism as Intervention: A Note on Susan R. Horton’s ‘Interpreting Interpreting’
- Annotations on Fredric Jameson’s ‘Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism’
- Homer in the Renaissance: The Troy Stories
- ‘Abstracted to Death’: Estética del bilingüismo y la traducción en la prosa de beckett
- Criticism after Romanticism, 7: Aesthetics and Psychology
- Criticism after Romanticism: 6. Realism and Naturalism
- Criticism after Romanticism, 4: Scholarship and Literary History. 5. Early sociological approaches
- Criticism after Romanticism: 2. Art for Art’s Sake. 3. Impressionism and Subjectivism
- Criticism after Romanticism, 1: Moral Criticism
- Aristotle’s Poetics
- Plato’s Poetics
- La subjetividad como máscara en las ‘Nouvelles’ de Beckett
- El modo del género narrativo: Diversas interpretaciones
- Sobre ‘Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis’, de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
- La Structure Narrative dans ‘La Dentellière’ de Pascal Lainé
- El carácter oral de ‘Le Bâtard de Bouillon’ (Orality in ‘Le Bâtard de Bouillon’)
- A Comparison between the French and RP English Vowel Systems
Book chapters
- Entrando en la Trilogía: La narración en ‘Molloy’ (Samuel Beckett y la narración reflexiva, 2)
- Conceptos básicos de narratología (Samuel Beckett y la narración reflexiva, 1)
- Introducción a ‘Samuel Beckett y la narración reflexiva’
- ‘Till Nohow On’: The Later Metafiction of Samuel Beckett
- Silence Once Broken: Metalenguaje y clausura narrativa en Beckett
- Science and Literature: Some Critical Parameters
- Narrative Discourse: Narrators and Narrative Positions (Narrative Theory, 6)
- Distance and Dramatization: Henry James on the Art of Fiction (Narrative Theory, 4)
- Time Structure in the Story: Gérard Genette, ‘Narrative Discourse’ (Narrative Theory, 3)
- The Structure of the Fabula (II): Boris Tomashevski, ‘Thematics’; Mieke Bal, ‘Narratology’ (Narrative Theory, 2)
- The Structure of the Fabula (I): Aristotle’s ‘Poetics’ (Narrative Theory, 1)
- Introduction to the Levels of Structural Analysis of the Narrative Text (Narrative Theory, 0)
- Aspectos de la técnica narrativa en Hard Times de Charles Dickens (Resumen)
Dissertations
Conference papers
Course material or learning objects
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Other Publications
Books: Samuel Beckett y la narración reflexiva (Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 1992); Acción, Relato, Discurso: Estructura de la ficción narrativa (Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 1998). Coeditor of Narratology (Longman Critical Reader, 1996, with Susana Onega), Gender, I-deology: Essays on Theory, Fiction and Film (Rodopi, 1996, with Chantal Cornut-Gentille), Theorizing Narrativity (de Gruyter, 2008, with John Pier), Semiosphere of Narratology (Nikolayev, 2013, with Ludmila Tataru) and Corporalidad, Temporalidad, Afectividad (Logos, 2017, with Luisa Paz Rodríguez). Editor (1992-1999) of Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies (University of Zaragoza). Papers in Atlantis, Papers on Language and Literature, English Language Notes, European Journal of English Studies and other philological journals. Book chapters in British Postmodern Fiction, The Intertextual Dimension of Discourse, The Pragmatics of Understanding and Misunderstanding, Historia de la Crítica y la Teoría literaria en Estados Unidos, New Exoticisms, Beyond Borders, Memory, Imagination, and Desire, Books in Motion, The Dynamics of Narrative Form, The Texture of Internet, etc.
