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Lauro Zavala is a scholarly researcher, known for his work on literary theory
Literary theory
Literary theory in a strict sense is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature. However, literary scholarship since the 19th century often includes—in addition to, or even instead of literary theory in the strict sense—considerations of...

, semiotics
Semiotics
Semiotics, also called semiotic studies or semiology, is the study of signs and sign processes , indication, designation, likeness, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication...

 and film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

, especially in relation to irony
Irony
Irony is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or situation in which there is a sharp incongruity or discordance that goes beyond the simple and evident intention of words or actions...

, metafiction
Metafiction
Metafiction, also known as Romantic irony in the context of Romantic works of literature, is a type of fiction that self-consciously addresses the devices of fiction, exposing the fictional illusion...

 and micro-narratives. Faculty professor since 1984 at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Xochimilco, in Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

, where he is head of the area on Intertextual Semiotics.

He holds a PhD in Literature at El Colegio de México
El Colegio de México
El Colegio de México, A.C. is a prestigious Mexican institute of higher education, specializing in teaching and research in the social sciences and the humanities...

. He is author of a dozen books, and over 150 articles published in books and journals in the US, UK, France, Spain and another 15 countries. His works have been quoted in more than 750 books and specialized journals. He has presented the results of his research in more than 120 scholarly conferences around the world and has tutored more than 150 dissertations. The National University (UNAM) has produced a DVD based on his textbook on film analysis. Chair of the Permanent Seminar on Film Analysis (SEPANCINE), since 2005, he organizes a National Conference on Film Analysis.

Zavala is the author of a series of models for textual and intertextual analysis as a contribution to the so-called intersemiotic translation. These pedagogical models are designed to analyze short stories, novels, feature films and documentaries, and other forms of narrative
Narrative
A narrative is a constructive format that describes a sequence of non-fictional or fictional events. The word derives from the Latin verb narrare, "to recount", and is related to the adjective gnarus, "knowing" or "skilled"...

, as well as photographs and many other cultural products.

At the core of his work is a theory on the formal components of postmodern cultural products. Paradigmatic Formalism is a response to Russian formalism, French deconstruction and other European-based literary theories, and it is the result of studying Spanish American literature, where the key element is not the moral evolution of the main character, but experimentation with language itself.

According to this theory, one key element in postmodern culture is the tendency to produce the highest possible complexity in materials of extreme brevity. Arising from the mixed and paradoxical condition of the regional culture, the genre of the so called micro-stories was born in early twentieth century in Latin American literature
Latin American literature
Latin American literature consists of the oral and written literature of Latin America in several languages, particularly in Spanish, Portuguese, and indigenous languages of the Americas. It rose to particular prominence globally during the second half of the 20th century, largely due to the...

.

Film analysis

  • Material inflamable. Reseñas y crítica de cine (UAMX, 1989).
  • Permanencia voluntaria. El cine y su espectador (UV, 1994).
  • Elementos del discurso cinematográfico (UAMX, 2005). Award to the University Textbook at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. Available at the section Educación Continua at UAM Xochimilco's web page.http://www.uam.mx
  • La seducción luminosa. Teoría y práctica del análisis cinematográfico (Trillas, 2010).

Literary analysis

Most recent titles:
  • Paseos por el cuento mexicano contemporáneo (Nueva Imagen, 2004).
  • Cartografías del cuento y la minificción (Renacimiento, Sevilla, España, 2005).
  • La minificción bajo el microscopio (UNAM, 2006).
  • Cómo estudiar el cuento (Trillas, 2009).

Semiotics

  • La precisión de la incertidumbre. Posmodernidad, vida cotidiana y escritura (UAEM, 2005).
  • Manual de análisis narrativo (Trillas, 2007).
  • Ironías de la ficción y la metaficción en cine y literatura (UACM, 2008).
  • Antimanual del museólogo. Hacia una museografía de la vida cotidiana (UAM, forthcoming).

Research

  • De la investigación al libro. Estudios y crónicas de bibliofilia (UNAM, 2007).
  • Instrucciones para asesinar a un profesor. Viñetas de la vida académica (Praxis/UABCS, 2008).
  • Semiótica preliminar. Ensayos como conjeturas (forthcoming).

Literary anthologies

  • Humor e ironía en el cuento mexicano (Asoc. Escrit. Uruguay, 1992, 2 vols.).
  • La palabra en juego. El nuevo cuento mexicano (Univ. Aut. Edo. México, 1993).
  • Teorías de los cuentistas (UNAM, 1993).
  • La escritura del cuento (UNAM, 1995).
  • Poéticas de la brevedad (UNAM, 1996).
  • Cuentos sobre el cuento (UNAM, 1998).
  • Borges múltiple. Cuentos y ensayos de cuentistas (en colaboración con Pablo Brescia, UNAM, 1999).
  • Relatos vertiginosos. Antología de cuentos mínimos (Alfaguara Juvenil, 2000).

Book selected in 2001 to be published by the Mexican Ministry of Education (45,000 copies distributed in public libraries and schools).
  • La ciudad escrita. Humor e ironía en el cuento urbano (El Ermitaño, 2000).
  • Relatos mexicanos posmodernos. Prosa ultrabreve, lúdica e híbrida (Alfaguara Juvenil, 2001). Book selected in 2004 to be published by the Mexican Ministry of Education.
  • El dinosaurio anotado. Edición crítica de 'El dinosaurio' de Augusto Monterroso (Alfaguara Juvenil, 2002).
  • La minificción en México: 50 textos breves (UPN, Colombia, 2002).
  • Minificción mexicana (UNAM, Antologías Literarias del Siglo XX, 2003).

Editorial work

  • Editor, El Cuento en Red. Revista de Investigación en Teoría y Análisis Literario. Semestral, created in 2000 at UAM Xochimilco in collaboration with Humboldt State University.http://cuentoenred.xoc.uam.mx/

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