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In Cultural Hermeneutics, Mario J. Valdés offers a synthesis of the hermeneutic philosophies of Miguel de Unamuno and Paul Ricoeur.

Valdés gives his views of literature, cinema, and art to unravel what he calls, 'the imaginative configuration of the world, the cultural phenomenon of making sense, poetic sense, of life.'

Drawing on the works of a wide range of authors, including Proust, Tolstoy, Woolf, Lorca, Solzhenitsyn, and Fowles, Valdés explores the phenomenon of truth-claims from two perspectives: textual semantics and hermeneutics.

Mario Valdés has taken up the challenge of retracing the historical and philosophical background of his own approach to literature, the application of phenomenological philosophy to the interpretation of texts.

This book brings together, in the spirit of dialogue, the arguments on both sides of the most important issue in literary criticism today. It will be of interest to all concerned with textual theory, regardless of which literature are considered.

To introduce the richness of the Hispanic literatures and to elaborate an historical overview of one literary tradition, Valdes has chosen to examine texts from Hispanic literatures exclusively, notably those of Unamuno and Cervantes.

This volume the papers read at the International Colloquium on Interpretation of Narrative dealing with the methodology of text-oriented criticism and the discussion of fundamental agreement and acceptance of the hermeneutic method and reception theory.

This source book provides answers to many diverse questions about Unamuno and his works, for example: Which newspapers did Unamuno write in? How interested was he in literature from the United States? Did he read Kierkegaard in Spanish? What about Kant?  Did he read Catalan?

Theatre Semiotics provides a thorough argument for the place and the necessity of semiotics within the interpretive process of theatre.