Biographical history, novelistic fiction and tensions of modernity in the liberal public sphere.
Research and innovation in literature aimed at the model reader, which is to be found in pre-school, primary and secondary education.
Origin, evolution and Hispanic diffusion of the Matter of Brittany. Fictional texts and historical contexts in Hispanic chivalric narrative. Relations between different Romanesque chivalric literatures: Castilian, Catalan, French, Italian, etc.
Recreation and survival of the Middle Ages, its history, literature, images, myths and legends in contemporary cultural production: cinema, literature, comics, videogames, music, social media, board games, etc.
Application of Digital Humanities to the study and research of Medieval Spanish Literature.
Study of literature in any of its manifestations (novels, essays, theatre, poetry, literary journalism, memoirs, diaries, graphic novels, etc.), as working material for the contemporary historian, in order to analyse historical phenomena from an interdisciplinary perspective.
The main goal is to fill an anomalous gap in studies of contemporary Catalan literature: to study the role played by irony and hypertextuality in different literary movements and different authors.
- Origin, evolution, diffusion, sources, configuration and textual tradition, corpus, reception and categorisation of Medieval Sapiential Literature.
- Exemplary literature, literature of sentences, literature of questions and answers.
- Compendia of medieval punishments.
- Mirrors of princes.
History, criticism, evolution, social, cultural and political context, literary production, textual transmission and reception of Medieval Spanish Literature and its relationship with Romance literatures.
Printed literary production and dissemination. Process of transformation from manuscript text to printed copy. The book as a commercial and cultural product: technique, composition, printing workshops, agents involved in the process of production, dissemination, financing and sale. Typobibliography.
The aim is to study the reception of French literary texts, of any genre and period, in other linguistic and cultural spheres, as well as their mediating role with other languages or cultures, mainly Hispanic.
Critical edition of medieval texts accompanied by complete studies and devices of notes, with special attention to the digital edition in both TEI and ebook format.
Study and research about French literary texts with the aim of translating them into Spanish. Translation of these texts and studies of the translations carried out, from the point of view of translatology and their reception and mediation within the Spanish-speaking world.
