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Weaving Tales

Anglo-Iberian Encounters on Literatures in English

Jason Whittaker editor Beatriz Valverde editor Paula García-Ramírez editor Angélica Varandas editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:30th Nov '23

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This collection of essays brings together a wide range of Spanish and Portuguese academics and writers exploring the ways in which our encounters with literatures in English inform our assumptions about texts and identities (or texts as identities) and the way we read them. Mapping, examining, reading and re-reading, fashioning and self-fashioning and, especially, weaving appear as appropriate images that convey the complexity and the nature of creative writing. Such a metaphor has been fundamental for the history of world literature since the Roman poet Ovid had included a tale in his Metamorphoses in which weaving, narration, uncertain identities, and the risks of telling uncomfortable truths all figure prominently. As such, these essays trace the intertwined patterns that knit texts together, weaving identities as well as undoing them and, in the process, interrogating established and official truths.

ISBN: 9781032447681

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 639g

238 pages