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Animal representation in literature

Study, analysis and reflection on the representation of the animal in contemporary Western literature (narrative, poetry, theatre).

Children's and youth literature

Research and innovation in literature aimed at the model reader, which is to be found in pre-school, primary and secondary education.

Chivalric literature

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.

Contemporary Italian literature

Analysis, interpretation, commentary (and translation) of Italian texts from the 20th and 21st century: poetry, narrative, theatre, essays, etc. Literature and cinema.

Contemporary cultural recreations of the medieval world

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.

Cultural heritage, reading, literary, digital and media literacy training

Cultural heritage, reading, literary, digital and media education and research as a way of understanding the world and forming critical, reflective citizens capable of dealing with any type of text, whether written or digital.

Medieval Sapiential Literature
  1. Origin, evolution, diffusion, sources, configuration and textual tradition, corpus, reception and categorisation of Medieval Sapiential Literature.
  2. Exemplary literature, literature of sentences, literature of questions and answers.
  3. Compendia of medieval punishments.
  4. Mirrors of princes.
Medieval Spanish Literature

History, criticism, evolution, social, cultural and political context, literary production, textual transmission and reception of Medieval Spanish Literature and its relationship with Romance literatures.

Neo-Latin studies

In a broad sense, it focuses on the study and edition of texts written in Latin from the 15th to the 19th century and their interrelation with literatures written in other languages.

Origins of Hispanic printing

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.

Text editing

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.