Contents -- Introduction: The Politics of Theory in Post-Franco Spain -- Representation -- Chapter 1 Making Sense after Babel -- Chapter 2 The Television Newscast: A Postmodern Discourse -- Chapter 3 Architectures of the Gaze -- Aesthetics -- Chapter 4 The Immutability of the Text, the Freedom of the Reader, and Aesthetic Experience -- Chapter 5 Phenomenology and Pragmatics of Literary Realism -- Chapter 6 The Pragmatics of Lyric Poetry -- Chapter 7 Reading in Process, the Antitext, and the Definition of Literature -- Subjectivity -- Chapter 8 Subjectivity and Temporality in Narrative -- Chapter 9 Subject and Language: Reflections on Lacan and Jinkis -- Afterword: Aesthetics and Politics -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.