Crossing fields in modern spanish culture

Modern Spanish culture is bold and experimental, expressing a disregard for generic boundaries and formal conventions. In these essays, leading Hispanists explore the dialogue and interrelation between cultual discourses and artistic practices in a varitey of nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts from the perspectives of literary criticism, cultural analysis, media studies, politics and the history of art. The contributors adress fundamentalquiestions about the relationship between artistic media and cultural fields and provide insights into the way identities- social, political or cultural- and bound up with the textual.