New Literatures of Old: Dialogues of Tradition and Innovation in Anglophone Literature

Artistic creativity is fuelled by the permanent interaction among artistic forms, cultures, societies, and eventually different individuals, in the form of an all-inclusive intertextuality. The dialogues between the past and the present help the artist examine his own art, making him conscious of his position in the field, whether through self-evaluation, renewal or experiment with new textualities. This book explores how the strategies reflecting the exchanges between past and present modes of artistic production become active agents of intervention in creating the various spaces of dialogue and confrontation when establishing the identities and cultural specificity of a certain society or community.

Didac Llorens Cubedo is a researcher at the Universitat Jaume I (Castello, Spain), where he also teaches English literature. He has taught Spanish in Northern Ireland and Spanish and Catalan at Fitzwilliam College and the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages of the University of Cambridge. He is currently working on a comparative study of the poetic imagination of T. S. Eliot and the Catalan poet Salvador Espriu. Jose Ramon Prado-Perez is full-time lecturer in English Literature at Universitat Jaume I, Spain. He specialises in British alternative theatre and performace from a social and cultural perspective, as well as film adaptations of Shakespeare’s works. His research interests lie in the area of Cultural Studies and he is joint editor of the Cultural Studies Journal, Culture, Language and Representation, published by Universitat Jaume I.