I want to put forward the hypothesis that it was between 1599, the date when the First Part of Guzmán de Alfarache appeared in print, and 1605, the publication date of the First Part of Don Quijote, that the European novel emerged. This thesis is not new : I proposed it in 1967 in Protée et le gueux (Cros 1967), where I pointed out that Mateo Alemán’s and Cervantes’s texts established a genuine conflicting dialogue.

La sociocrítica se interesa por sacar a luz la manera como lo socioeconómico se incorpora en las estructuras textuales, afirmando sin embargo que esta incorporación no es directa ni automática, ya que cada uno de los dos niveles implicados (la infraestructura y la superestructura) tiene su historia (...)

 

El ejercicio de la interdisciplinariedad exige que sean definidos unos objetos nuevos e instrumentos de análisis adecuados. Este estudio contempla desde esta perspectiva el caso de tres epistemes ( Marx, Saussure, Freud) que han llevado a re-fundaciones epistemológicas. Evocando las (...)

These economic determinants are, however, not the only ones worth mentioning, Higham notes two other factors that are part of the superstructure. (1) The shock of foreign cultural models. In contrast to the first wave of immigra-tion, which was predominantly Protestant and British, the second (...)