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This paper offers an analysis on the connections between the Classical World and American superhero comic books. The study focuses on one character in particular, The Flash, who, as one of the first superheroes to inaugurate the genre, allows us to delve into the use of the Greco-Latin world in the founding of the medium. The work focuses on the two areas on which a medium such as the comic book is based: on the one hand, it looks at the aesthetic aspect of the character, on the other, it offers a narratological analysis of his stories. Both show important connections with the Classical World. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the 20th century, Comparative Literature and Cognitive Poetics encountered classical Indian literary theory, based on a systematic classification of the states of mind that manifest themselves as the aesthetic experience of an emotion (rasa) in the viewer or listener; this emotion is actualized through the suggestiveness (dhvani) of the text. This paper presents a critical analysis of some recent approaches to ancient Sanskrit Poetics, considering its historical development. It offers various models for analyzing of the emotions triggered by a literary work and their relationship to the text and its aesthetic enjoyment, such as some postulates of Cognitive Poetics. Intercultural dialogue will be fruitful if if literary criticism is approached through a contextualized understanding of respective cultural traditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the articulation of the present-past relations in German and Spanish literature of memory. The aim is to show that the cultural turn of memory that took place in Spain around 2007 is bringing these two literary traditions closer together, one of the shared elements being the post-memorial perspective, which makes it possible to detect both continuities and genealogical discontinuities. This will be exemplified through the analysis of a series of family narratives that offer themselves to be interpreted through the notion of postmemory developed by Marianne Hirsch (2008): El jinete polaco [The Polish Rider] (1995) by Antonio Muñoz Molina, Im Krebsgang [Krabwalk] by Günter Grass, Im Schatten meines Bruders [My Brother’s Shadow] (2003) by Uwe Timm and Lo que a nadie le importa [What nobody cares about] (2014) by Sergio del Molino. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]