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Toby Miller Cultural Studies Podcast, George Yudice Dec 2011

Toby Miller Cultural Studies Podcast, George Yudice

George Yúdice

A Conversation with George Yúdice About His Miami Cultural Observatory, His Books, and Translation.


Jacinta's "Vista Al Cuarto Estado": The Galley Version, Linda M. Willem Dec 2011

Jacinta's "Vista Al Cuarto Estado": The Galley Version, Linda M. Willem

Linda M. Willem

The galley stag in the production of Galdós's novels provided the author with an opportunity for final revision before his texts went to press. Despite Berkowitz's claims to the contrary, Galdós did make numerous changes in his works prior to their publication. Indeed, no page of Fortunata y Jacinta's galleys is left untouched. Yet, surprisingly little critical attention has been afforded this important stage in the production of Galdós's masterpiece. In 1978 James Whiston pioneered the way for further study in this area by publishing a brief article discussing how minor substitutions and additions to the galleys rendered the language …


Moreno-Isla's Unpublished Scene From The "Fortunata Y Jacinta" Galleys, Linda M. Willem Dec 2011

Moreno-Isla's Unpublished Scene From The "Fortunata Y Jacinta" Galleys, Linda M. Willem

Linda M. Willem

In the current Cátedra edition of Fortunata y Jacinta Francisco Caudet provides a valuable service for Galdosian scholars by supplementing the text -- based on the "La Guirnalda" first edition of 1887 -- with footnotes which quote material that was either discarded or changed at the galley stage. Although Caudet acknowledges his inability to record the thousands of galley revisions that Galdós made, he does propose to cite the more important ones. Surprisingly, however, he does not include one of the few scenes from the galleys which was deleted in its entirety. It occurs in Part IV, Chapter 2, Section …


Latent Narratives: Sideshadowing In "Fortunata Y Jacinta", Linda M. Willem Dec 2011

Latent Narratives: Sideshadowing In "Fortunata Y Jacinta", Linda M. Willem

Linda M. Willem

In his book, Narrative and Freedom, Gary Saul Morson uses the term "sideshadowing" to identify a set of devices-operating in the works of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky-that are used to counter the closed view of time associated with another term, "foreshadowing." According to Morson, this temporal closure is the result of the backward causation of foreshadowing. That is, in foreshadowing something happens because something else is going to happen. Instead of being caused by a prior event, it is caused by a subsequent one. That means that the future is already set, at least to the extent that it can send …


Reaching Beyond Borders Through Service Learning, Terri Carney Dec 2011

Reaching Beyond Borders Through Service Learning, Terri Carney

Terri M. Carney

When university Spanish programs integrate a service learning pedagogy into their curriculum, they establish mutually beneficial relationships with the local Latino population. Indeed, all participants benefit: College Spanish students deepen their learning experience, Latino students in public school ESL programs receive individualized tutoring, and the college professor emerges from academic isolation to do the work of a public intellectual.


The Effectiveness Of A Mixed Methodology Implemented In A Beginner’S Spanish Course To Develop The Four Language Skills: A Quasi-Experimental Study, Kerwin A. Livingstone Nov 2011

The Effectiveness Of A Mixed Methodology Implemented In A Beginner’S Spanish Course To Develop The Four Language Skills: A Quasi-Experimental Study, Kerwin A. Livingstone

Kerwin A. Livingstone

This present article seeks to provide a mixed methodological model for the development and implementation of a Teaching Module for Spanish as a Foreign Language in the face to face environment. The primary objective is to portray how methodological principles from different language teaching approaches - in this case, task based language teaching and cooperative learning - can be combined effectively in designing activities for face to face contexts. In this regard, empirical evidence is analysed in order to determine the effectiveness of the mixed methodology in the teaching-learning of Spanish as a Foreign Language in the said settings, in …


La Novela Mexicana De Temática Homosexual: Defensa De Curso, Juan Carlos Rocha Osornio Nov 2011

La Novela Mexicana De Temática Homosexual: Defensa De Curso, Juan Carlos Rocha Osornio

Juan Carlos Rocha Osornio, Ph.D

No abstract provided.


Almodóvar On The Verge Of Cocteau's "La Voix Humaine", Linda Willem Nov 2011

Almodóvar On The Verge Of Cocteau's "La Voix Humaine", Linda Willem

Linda M. Willem

Jean Cocteau's one-act play, La Voix humaine [The Human Voice], consists entirely of a monologue by a woman engaged in a final phone conversation with her lover. Alone in her room, she desperately clings to the telephone as her only link to the man who has left her for someone else. Although this agonizing portrait of abandonment and despair bears little resemblance to Almodóvar's multi-charactered comedic romp through the streets of Madrid in Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios [Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown], Cocteau's play has been named as the source of inspiration for …


Metafictional "Mise En Abyme" In Saura's "Carmen", Linda M. Willem Nov 2011

Metafictional "Mise En Abyme" In Saura's "Carmen", Linda M. Willem

Linda M. Willem

In the 1983 film Carmen, Carlos Saura creatively refashions Mérimée's novella and Bizet's opera into an exciting new rendering of the Carmen myth. The foundation of this film rests on Mérimée's narrative, which Saura admires for having the ability to convey a passionate love that still seems as fresh and expressive as it was in its own day (52). Since Saura views the plot modification introduced in Bizet's opera as being a betrayal of Mérimée's novella (55), he ignores the opera's story line and concentrates instead on its music, which he describes as being very beautiful, truly inspired, and having …


Rewriting Rendell: Pedro Almodóvar's "Carne Trémula", Linda M. Willem Nov 2011

Rewriting Rendell: Pedro Almodóvar's "Carne Trémula", Linda M. Willem

Linda M. Willem

The 1997 film Carne trémula has been lauded within as well as outside of Spain as one of Pedro Almodóvar's best works. Critics on both sides of the Atlantic also have noted that this film marks a departure from Almodóvar's previous style, not only because of its tighter plotline and greater psychological depth, but also because Almodóvar's treatment of his material is more serious, less self-indulgent, and openly political. Russell Smith has suggested that the film's narrative coherence may be attributed in part to Almodóvar's use of Ruth Rendell's novel, Live Flesh (1998), as the basis for his script. This …


Computers And Their Suitability For Second And Foreign Language Error Correction, Kerwin A. Livingstone Nov 2011

Computers And Their Suitability For Second And Foreign Language Error Correction, Kerwin A. Livingstone

Kerwin A. Livingstone

This article is an attempt to ascertain the suitability of computers for second and foreign language (SL/FL) error correction, especially those made by SL/FL learners. For this purpose, the handling of such errors proposed in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) literature will be examined. Subsequently the technologies capable of evaluating student output and identifying and correcting Non-Native Speaker (NNS) errors will be examined. Though it will be made quite clear that the computer cannot substitute a human being in total language processing, some strengths of artificial intelligence in partial language processing will be pointed out and their suitability for L2 error …


Sex, The Body, And Human Subjectivity In Luis Gotyisolo's Erotic Novel "Escalera Hacia El Cielo", Terri Carney Nov 2011

Sex, The Body, And Human Subjectivity In Luis Gotyisolo's Erotic Novel "Escalera Hacia El Cielo", Terri Carney

Terri M. Carney

Best known for his tetralogy Antagonía, Luis Goytisolo began his literary career under the Franco dictatorship and soon developed a reputation as an intellectual's writer. His intricate and sinewy prose challenged readers to follow his narrators down labyrinthine paths of extended metaphors, embedded clauses and erudite references. Interestingly enough, the novels of Goytisolo published in the last decade lack the narrative complexity and structural experimentalism characteristic of his earlier works. These 90s novels include: Estatua con palomas (1992), Mzungo (1996), Placer licuante (1997), and Escalera hacia el cielo (1999). Some might feel that his change to a more traditional narrative …


"Del Infierno Al Cuerpo: La Otredad En La Narrativa Y En El Cine Español Contemporáneo," Katarzyna Olga Beoñom, Terri Carney Nov 2011

"Del Infierno Al Cuerpo: La Otredad En La Narrativa Y En El Cine Español Contemporáneo," Katarzyna Olga Beoñom, Terri Carney

Terri M. Carney

A review of Katarzyna Olga Beoñom's "Del infierno al cuerpo: La otredad en la narrativa y en el cine español contemporáneo."


Lou Carnon-Deutsch, "Narratives Of Desire: Nineteenth Century Spanish Fiction By Women", Linda M. Willem Nov 2011

Lou Carnon-Deutsch, "Narratives Of Desire: Nineteenth Century Spanish Fiction By Women", Linda M. Willem

Linda M. Willem

A review of Lou Charnon-Deutsch's Narratives of Desire: Nineteenth-Century Spanish Fiction by Women.


The Music Of Borgesian Destiny In Saura's "El Sur", Linda M. Willem Nov 2011

The Music Of Borgesian Destiny In Saura's "El Sur", Linda M. Willem

Linda M. Willem

Carlos Saura’s El Sur was aired on Spanish television in 1993 as part of a series of six programmes based on selected short stories by Jorge Luis Borges. The entire set of these hour-long productions has recently been released on video by the Films for the Humanities, thereby granting easy availability to what thus far has been one of Saura’s most difficult to acquire, and consequently least known, films. Described in its opening credits as an ‘adaptación libre’, Saura’s El Sur differs considerably from Borges’ short story of the same name. This is not surprising given Saura’s long-standing refusal to …


Emilia Pardo Bazan, "Cronicas En La Nacion De Buenos Aires", Linda M. Willem Nov 2011

Emilia Pardo Bazan, "Cronicas En La Nacion De Buenos Aires", Linda M. Willem

Linda M. Willem

Over the twelve-year period immediately preceding her death, Pardo Bazan regularly contributed articles to the prestigious Argentine periodical La Nacion. Surprisingly, these pieces have not been reproduced in previous collections of her works, and few references have ever been made to their existence. Cyrus DeCoster rectifies this omission by bringing together fortysix of what he considers to be the most interesting of the articles. The vast majority of those selected deal with literature and the other arts. Some are eulogies to eminent figures either recently deceased or being honored by centennial celebrations (e.g., Marcelino Menendez y Pelayo, Aure-liano de Beruete, …


The Narrative Premise Of Galdos's Lo Prohibido, Linda Willem Nov 2011

The Narrative Premise Of Galdos's Lo Prohibido, Linda Willem

Linda M. Willem

In their critical study of Lo prohibido most scholars make only casual mention of its memoir format, and the fictitious circumstances of its composition are all but ignored. yet this narrative premise has an overall impact on the novel. In addition to determining the discourse order of the text, it is instrumental in establishing the narrator's authorial autonomy as well as permitting him varying degrees of unreliability. Furthermore, it affects the different narrative voice techniques employed in the novel. The following discussion will examine the implications of this neglected facet of Lo prohibido.


Luis Goytisolo Beyond "Antagonía": His Search For Agency In Democratic Spain, Terri Carney Nov 2011

Luis Goytisolo Beyond "Antagonía": His Search For Agency In Democratic Spain, Terri Carney

Terri M. Carney

Since his monumentally successful tetralogy, Antagonía, Luis Goytisolo has adapted his literary style to survive the changes in both the publishing world and the greater cultural context of post-Franco Spain. Indeed, his post-Antagonía novels can be divided into two phases: the structurally complex novels of the 1980s, and the more readable novels of the 1990s. Although these two groups of novels differ stylistically, they both form part of Goytisolo's ongoing critique of Western man's investment in subjectivity as either a controlling, self-governed force or a controlled subject, both of which occlude a viable notion of human agency. My study of …


Sir William Stirling-Maxwell And His Cervantes Collection At The Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University Of Kansas, Richard Clement Nov 2011

Sir William Stirling-Maxwell And His Cervantes Collection At The Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University Of Kansas, Richard Clement

Richard W. Clement

No abstract provided.


La Evaluación De Un Modelo Metodológico Mixto Para Mejorar Las Habilidades Productivas Y Receptivas En Español Como Segunda Lengua: Un Estudio Cuasi-Experimental, Kerwin A. Livingstone Oct 2011

La Evaluación De Un Modelo Metodológico Mixto Para Mejorar Las Habilidades Productivas Y Receptivas En Español Como Segunda Lengua: Un Estudio Cuasi-Experimental, Kerwin A. Livingstone

Kerwin A. Livingstone

El presente artículo propone proveer un modelo metodológico mixto para el desarrollo e implementación de un Módulo de Enseñanza para el español como segunda lengua en la modalidad presencial. El objetivo principal es evidenciar cómo los principios metodológicos provenientes de los enfoques didácticos - enfoque por tareas y aprendizaje cooperativo - pueden ser aplicados de manera efectiva en el diseño de contextos presenciales. Para ello, se explora evidencia empírica acerca de la efectividad de la metodología mixta en la enseñanza-aprendizaje de español como segunda lengua en dichos ambientes, en un estudio basado en un diseño cuasi-experimental longitudinal con pre-test y …


Carmen Naranjo, Cesar Valverde Sep 2011

Carmen Naranjo, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

No abstract provided.


The Latin American Novel, Cesar Valverde Sep 2011

The Latin American Novel, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

No abstract provided.


Identidad Y Diversidad: Libro De Artista = Identity And Diversity: Artist's Book, Stephen A. Sadow, Irene Jaievsky, Perla Bajder Sep 2011

Identidad Y Diversidad: Libro De Artista = Identity And Diversity: Artist's Book, Stephen A. Sadow, Irene Jaievsky, Perla Bajder

Stephen Sadow

Catalog of an exhibition of artist's books displayed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Each of the fourteen books features a poem by a Jewish Latin American author, presented in Spanish and English, and an accompanying artistic interpretation. The text of the catalog is presented in Spanish and English.


The Paths That Lead, Carolyn Nadeau Jun 2011

The Paths That Lead, Carolyn Nadeau

Carolyn A Nadeau

No abstract provided.


Selected Bibliography Of Work On Canadian Ethnic Minority Writing, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek, Asma Sayed, Domenic A. Beneventi Jun 2011

Selected Bibliography Of Work On Canadian Ethnic Minority Writing, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek, Asma Sayed, Domenic A. Beneventi

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven & Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven

No abstract provided.


Selected Journals Of Media And Communication Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek Jun 2011

Selected Journals Of Media And Communication Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven & Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven

No abstract provided.


Selected Bibliography Of Comparative Media Studies, Yilin Liao, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek Jun 2011

Selected Bibliography Of Comparative Media Studies, Yilin Liao, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven & Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven

No abstract provided.


Selected Bibliography For The Study Of Central And East European Culture, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek Jun 2011

Selected Bibliography For The Study Of Central And East European Culture, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven & Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven

No abstract provided.


History Of Ricl: Research Institute For Comparative Literature, University Of Alberta 1985-1999, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek Jun 2011

History Of Ricl: Research Institute For Comparative Literature, University Of Alberta 1985-1999, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven & Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven

No abstract provided.


Constructivism And Comparative Cultural Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek Jun 2011

Constructivism And Comparative Cultural Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven & Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven

No abstract provided.