Looking at Iberia in/from Europe

Abstract

6is volume focuses on some key theoretical, methodological and historical questions related with Iberian literatures and cultures, privileging a strong European component and a comparative approach. 6e essays gathered here are the main outcome from the Exploratory Workshop ‘Looking at Iberia from a Comparative European Perspective: Literature, Narration and Identity’ funded by the European Science Foundation and held at the Faculty of Arts from the University of Lisbon, on 13 and 14 October 2011. 6is workshop was organized in the frame of Project DIIA – Diálogos Ibéricos e Ibero-Americanos [Iberian and Ibero-American Dialogues], from the Centre for Comparative Studies, University of Lisbon, and it brought together twenty-one scholars from eleven European countries with common interests in Iberian languages, literatures and cultures, along with a shared comparative perspective towards them. 6e papers presented then and the lively discussion that ensued led to the common wish to transform all of our questions and ref lexions into a volume that might of fer a theoretical and methodological threshold for future investigations on Iberian literary and cultural phenomena.