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As the moment of the birth of the patria, Independence enjoys a privileged role in the historical imaginary of many Latin American nations. In Argentina as in other countries, the period has been fundamental to state discourses of nation-building and identity, lending its figures and central narratives a powerful symbolic function. It has also attracted significant literary attention, and this book offers an innovative reading of texts that provide irreverent, metafictional, or self-reflexive retellings of this foundational moment. This type of fiction is usually read through well-established frameworks on the contemporary Latin American historical novel that emphasise its destabilising of knowledge and single truths. Instead, this work foregrounds the much more immediate, concrete political points at stake when we read these texts through both their direct engagement with contemporary circumstances and the politics of the history they evoke. It therefore argues for a new approach to reading contemporary Latin American historical fiction that showcases its response to politically urgent questions.

The novel is a literary form that depicts and reflects upon the life and perspective of the author. In this study, perspectives on management are surveyed in five classic science fiction novels: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World; George Orwell's Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four; Philip K. Dick's Vulcan's Hammer; and Ahmet HamdiTanpınar's The Time Regulation Institute. In the fantastic fiction novels of Huxley and Dick, the world is managed from a single center. In Brave New World, tragedy results from forcing people to be standardized, while in Vulcan's Hammer, destruction is wrought on humanity after all decision-making processes are left to computers. Orwell's novels, which are penned in a symbolic style, strongly criticize the command management system associated with communism, while The Time Regulation Institute is a humorous critique of bureaucratic management styles.

Scholars in literature departments and the social sciences share a broadly similar interest in understanding human development, societal norms, and political institutions. However, although literature scholars are likely to reference sources or concepts from the social sciences in their published work, the line of influence is much less likely to appear the other way around. This unequal engagement provides the occasion for this paper, which seeks to clarify the ways social scientists might draw influence from literary fiction in the development of their own work as academics: selecting research topics, teaching, and drawing inspiration for projects. A qualitative survey sent to 13,784 social science researchers at 25 different universities asked participants to describe the influence, if any, reading works of literary fiction plays in their academic work or development. The 875 responses to this survey provide numerous insights into the nature of interdisciplinary engagement between these disciplines. First, the survey reveals a skepticism among early-career researchers regarding literature's social insights compared to their more senior colleagues. Second, a significant number of respondents recognized literary fiction as playing some part in shaping their research interests and expanding their comprehension of subjects relevant to their academic scholarship. Finally, the survey generated a list of literary fiction authors and texts that respondents acknowledged as especially useful for understanding topics relevant to the study of the social sciences. Taken together, the results of the survey provide a fuller account of how researchers engage with literary fiction than can be found in the pages of academic journals, where strict disciplinary conventions might discourage out-of-the-field engagement.

Trabajo presentado al Seminar Ingenio (CSIC-UPV) celebrado en la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia el 18 de octubre de 2016. ; Some scientists write literary fiction books in their spare time. If these books contain scientific knowledge, literary fiction becomes a mechanism of knowledge transfer. When this is the case, in the framework of the distinction of formal versus informal knowledge transfer, we conceptualise literary fiction as spare-time formal knowledge transfer. We model scientific authorship of literary fiction as a function of geographical co-location between editors and authors, and knowledge transfer as a function of the type of scientist (academic or non-academic). We distinguish between direct knowledge transfer (the book includes the scientist's research topics), indirect knowledge transfer (scientific authors talk about their research with cultural agents) and reverse knowledge transfer (cultural agents give scientists ideas for future research). Through mixed-methods research and a sample from the Valencian Community (Spain), we find that scientific authorship accounts for a considerable percentage of all literary fiction authorship and is negatively related to geographic co-location with editors. Academic scientists do not transfer knowledge directly so often as non-academic scientists, but the former engage into indirect and reverse transfer knowledge more often than the latter. We draw propositions about the role of geography on scientific authorship of literary fiction and that of the academic logic on knowledge transfer. We advance some tentative conclusions regarding the incorporation of scientific authorship of literary fiction in the evaluation of academic merit. ; This research was funded by project AICO/2016/A/107 of the Valencian Regional Government. Nicolas Robinson-Garcia is currently supported by a Juan de la Cierva-Formación Fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. We are indebted to Pablo Marín Liébana (supported by CSIC's Fellowship JAE-INT 16/00455) for his work in the database, conducting interviews and sharing ideas, and to the authors interviewed for their patience and generosity. ; Peer Reviewed

Drawing on British Academy and Leverhulme Trust-funded research at the Harry Ransom Center University of Texas at Austin, the article provides a methodological justification for the literary archive in citizenship. The case is made through a study of unpublished and presently unclassified
documents relating to the early history of Poets, Essayists and Novelists (PEN), 1917–1947. Today a voice for freedom of expression worldwide, in its first decades PEN struggled with its apolitical identity, moved to solidarity with writers suffering political repression and compelled
to exclude from its ranks authors actively supporting fascism and Nazism. Outlining three stages in its history, I trace the emergence of PEN as an organization in part resolving this difficulty by a broadly to be interpreted programme of political 'education' rather than narrowly defined
political 'action': Apolitical PEN: 1917–1932; PEN Politicized: 1933–1945; and PEN and Political Education: The Post-1945 Programme. I thereby demonstrate a historical conflation of the literary, the political and the educational within a writers organization of worldwide present-day
significance, a nuanced reading assisted by access to original archival sources. Beyond PEN, I make the case for the literary archive to empirically inform discussion of the theoretically rich relationship between politics, literature and education.

"The volume shows how both the distinction and connection between literature and poetry is staged within Heidegger's thought. It offers Heidegger's perspective on a range of key themes, topics, poets, and writers, including Friedrich Hölderlin, Thomas Mann, Paul Celan, Euripides and Sophocles"--