Why the Twenties? Recent scholarship has been pointing out more and more clearly that in Spain, too, the Twenties were a period in which both radical and varied change was being striven for. An obsolete mainstream cultural practice was being confronted by an increasing interest in such novelties as sports, jazz-bands, silent movies or even the first stirrings of feminism. It is the decade of reviews promoting various -isms, from ultraism to surrealism, and of Valle-Inclán''s grotesque esperpento, which heralded the fall of Primo de Rivera''s dictatorship. The essays assembled here treat some of these and many other aspects. The authors base their contributions on recent criticism and many years of dedication to the field, and propose new directions for fertile future investigations.

Why the Twenties? Recent scholarship has been pointing out more and more clearly that in Spain, too, the Twenties were a period in which both radical and varied change was being striven for. An obsolete mainstream cultural practice was being confronted by an increasing interest in such novelties as sports, jazz-bands, silent movies or even the first stirrings of feminism. It is the decade of reviews promoting various -isms, from ultraism to surrealism, and of Valle-Inclán's grotesque esperpento, which heralded the fall of Primo de Rivera's dictatorship. The essays assembled here treat some of these and many other aspects. The authors base their contributions on recent criticism and many years of dedication to the field, and propose new directions for fertile future investigations.

Inhalt: M. Albert, La prosa narrativa de vanguardia y su viraje político. - U. Felten, El discurso onírico e intermedial en la obra de Federico García Lorca. - J. Heymann, La imagen literarizada, la vanguardia y el cine. Ramón, Ayala, Jardiel. - J. Mecke, Literatura española y literatura europea. Aspectos historiográficos y estéticos de una relación problemática. - D. Miglos, Huellas ramonianas en Estación. Ida y vuelta o en busca de una prosa vanguardista. - M. Prudon, De un manifiesto a otro. Aproximacion(es) textual(es). - C. Rodiek, Las antologías del 27: Enfoques y (des)ajustes. - V. Roloff, Literatura y cine en los años 20 en España. Procesos intermediales en el surrealismo. - M. Rössner, Jardiel Poncela: El café como taller de la estética vanguardista. - S. Salaün, Vanguardias estéticas en España. - M. Scholz-Hänsel, El surrealismo español (1924-51) y la necesidad de una perspectiva intercultural en la historia del arte. - C. Serrano, Continuidad y recuperación de los mitos literarios. Don Juan y el teatro en España durante los años 20. - Harald Wentzlaff-Eggebert, Literatura, artes y vida en las vanguardias españolas. - Friedrich Wolfzettel, Mitologización de lo propio e identidad nacional. La generación del 98 y los mitos literarios. - M.-C. Zimmermann, Ruptura, creación y vanguardia en la poesía española de los años 20. Estudio comparativo sincrónico de J. R. Jiménez, A. Machado, F. García Lorca, R. Alberti y G. Diego.