El presente libro cierra una serie de tres volumenes encaminados a profundizar en distintos aspectos de la narrativa espanola memorialista. Si bien en los dos primeros haciamos hincapie en los rasgos formales y tecnicas narrativas empleadas para abordar este asunto, este ultimo volumen se imprime desde una mayor dimension de analisis politico y moral. Cabe preguntarse, dada esta perspectiva, como puede la literatura influir en la realidad e incluso transformarla, o hasta donde pueden llegar el escritor y el critico mediante el ejercicio responsable de su profesion. Se trata sin duda de preguntas de dificil respuesta. En las paginas que contiene este volumen intentamos dar respuesta a esas preguntas a traves de una serie de articulos inclinados sobre temas como la memoria transnacional, memoria y etica, exilio y memoria o la memoria como un deber inalinable en aquellas sociedades con pasado conflictivo.

In the last part of the twentieth century, the human sciences witnessed three paradigmatic turns' that made it possible to comprehend each individual discipline in the light of a unitary object of study, the text: the pragmatic turn within linguistics, the linguistic turn within historical and cultural studies, and the cultural turn within literary studies. Combined with the more comprehensive nature of the texts studied (the mass media, postcolonial studies, etc.), reflection on the theoretical approach is more important today than ever as a means of interdisciplinary practice across both disciplines and languages. Most of the contributions in this book were originally presented at a conference on Disciplines and Interdisciplinarity in Foreign Language Studies. The conference took place at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, 19-20 September 2003 and was organised by The Language and Culture Network. Founded in 2002, the network promotes interdisciplinary collaboration between the traditional branches of Foreign Language Studies.

This book contains the proceedings from the conference 'Changing Philologies' together with other contributions on the same topic. The conference was organised by the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and was held on 8-9 February 2002 in Copenhagen. The contributors to this book question whether the traditional paradigm of national philology, which dominated foreign language studies for more than a century, is appropriate for meeting the challenge posed by the economic and political globalisation of today. They argue that the relation between languages and cultures will become an important field of investigation in the future, and that foreign language studies must provide linguistically skilled candidates trained in cultural translation and intercultural communication. In order to do so, the departments of foreign language studies must strengthen their interdisciplinary activities and engage in theoretical reflections upon the relation between such entities as language, culture, identity, and history, and the self-knowledge and imaginary world pictures represented in art and literature.