En la presente investigación, me propongo llevar a cabo una lectura de la novela Pubis Angelical (1979), del escritor argentino Manuel Puig. Mi propósito inicial con esta novela (o más bien mi conjetura, y por lo tanto el primer impulso para la realización del trabajo de tesis) respondía a un interés específico: intentar examinar la amalgama entre ficción y praxis, entre literatura y relaciones de poder, entre texto y políticas de la subjetividad, que a mi entender encontraba en Pubis Angelical una de sus manifestaciones más interesantes en el ámbito literario hispanoamericano de las últimas décadas. En el desarrollo de este trabajo, trataré de ir demostrando que este elemento político de la obra de Puig no puede ser separado de sus estrategias narrativas. Para ello, y en atención tanto a aquella primera conjetura como a lo que después, en el análisis, fue apareciendo como el elemento peculiar del imaginario y de los recursos narrativos de la novela, he recurrido a distintas estrategias interpretativas que se nutren, sobre todo, del campo de los estudios de género. Como se irá viendo en el recorrido de este estudio, ese componente político inalienable de la obra de Manuel Puig estará referido, principalmente, a las relaciones de poder intergenéricas.

The sequence commentary emerged as a new branch of medieval commentary literature in the twelfth century. The sequence itself, sung in the Roman Mass, was a hugely influential genre—several thousands of sequence texts are known today—but the fact that the Middle Ages also produced commentaries on this liturgical poetry has been hitherto practically unknown and very few commentary texts have been edited. The present work is the first attempt at a broader presentation of the sequence commentary genre. It makes available in modern editions seven previously unedited expositions on the sequence Ad celebres rex for the feast of St Michael. Introductions to each edition discuss the motifs interpreted, the commentary technique used and the sources drawn upon. Manuscript interrelations and textual problems are also treated here. Editions of four prologues introducing collections of commentaries are also included. These texts, though not specifically tied to the commentaries on Ad celebres rex, are presented here since they provide useful evidence of the interpretative frameworks chosen by the commentators. The complex textual transmissions of these texts have required three different editorial methods, which are discussed in a separate chapter. A general introduction surveys the sequence commentary material found to date. From these textual witnesses—nearly a hundred manuscripts listed in an appendix—we may conclude that the genre flourished mainly in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Most manuscripts present large collections of commentaries on sequences for the whole liturgical year, generally preceded by a prologue and sometimes accompanied by a corresponding group of hymn commentaries.