Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies (UCL)
Research Seminar Series, 2013-2014 – Term 1
SELCS Common Room, FC307, 5pm
Wednesday 4 December 2013
Professor C. A. Longhurst – University of Leeds
‘Unamuno’s views on language: sense or nonsense?’
Unamuno was trained as a philologist, and such was his passion for words that he placed language at
the heart of the many subjects that interested him: religion, philosophy, history, culture, identity,
love, imagination, dreams... Even thinking itself he considered to be language-driven. Is this view of
the role of language really sustainable? Or did Unamuno’s creative view of language run away with
him?