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José
Antonio Álvarez Amorós
holds the Chair of English Literature at the University of Alicante,
where he currently teaches Anglo-American literary criticism and
doctoral courses on theory and criticism of the novel. His essays on
diverse aspects of Anglo-American literature and criticism have
appeared in Style, Comparative Literature, Language
Forum, Studia Neophilologica, Studies in Short Fiction,
several Spanish journals, Festschriften, and a wide variety of
collective works. He is also the author of two books, En torno al
discurso narrativo de Dubliners (Alicante
1986) and Ulysses como
paradigma de intertextualidad (Madrid
1990), in which he deployed
classical narratological instruments to analyse Joyce’s compositional
methods. Besides, he has edited and/or translated James Joyce’s poetry
(Alicante
1983 and
Madrid
1987), a collection of his short stories (Cáceres
1985), an
anthology of English contemporary poets (Alicante
1993), A Portrait of the
Artist as a Young Man (Salamanca
1995), the Historia crítica de la novela
inglesa (Salamanca
1998)—to which he contributed a chapter on the English
novel from 1910 to 1945—and Thackeray’s Vanity Fair (Madrid
2000). In
addition to his research activity, he is a founding member of the
Spanish James Joyce Society and sits on the Editorial and Advisory
Board of Studies in English Language and Linguistics and
Journal of English Studies. He edited Atlantis (2002–2005),
and coedited the Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses
(1988-1995) and Papers on Joyce (1995–2000).
In
2004, he published a coauthored book called Teoría literaria y
enseñanza de la literatura in Editorial Ariel,
and more recently he has published a chapter on Henry James's "The
Coxon Fund" in Contemporary Debates on the Short Story (2007),
a Peter Lang collective volume. E-Mail:
jalvarez@ua.es |
Personal WebSite:
http://www.ua.es/personal/jalvarez |
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