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Book Review: Vistas Comerciales Y Culturales, Lina Lee

Languages, Literatures & Cultures

Rview of Cahill, Danielle and Sandra de los Rios. Vistas Comerciales Y Culturales. Boston, MA: Heinle and Heinle, 2002. ISBN 0-03-031606-5. 347 pp.

Review Of "A Companion To Modern Spanish American Fiction" By D. L. Shaw, John J. Hassett

Spanish Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Somos Y Estamos, Otoño 2003, Department Of Spanish

Somos y Estamos

No abstract provided.

Flarr Pages #30: Writing The Novel, An Interview With Vicente Cabrera, Thomas C. Turner

FLARR Pages

Professor Vicente Cabrera, who now teaches at the University of Minnesota, Morris has just published a new novel, La sombra del espia, which has received wide acclaim in Ecuador. This work is a cross-cultural tale of spies, drug-traffickers and typewriters. Two other novels, published previously are: La Noche del Te, which has mental illness as its theme, and El Gaban, which describes a student and a serious political uprising. A fourth novel is in the works: El Hortelano de Ulba, which treats a mixed-race Hispano and American theme.

Book Review: Perspectivas (7th Edition), Lina Lee

Languages, Literatures & Cultures

Review of Kiddle, Mary Ellen, Branda Wegmann and Sandra Schreffler. Perspectivas (7th edition). Boston: Heinle and Heinle, 2002. pp. 372. ISBN 0-03-033936-7

Freedom Of Conscience In John H. Newman And Miguel De Unamuno, Kevin T. Fagan

World Languages and Cultures

Deals with the issue of freedom of conscience in two of its principal advocates in the modem English and Spanish-speaking worlds, John Henry Newman and Miguel de Unamuno. Seemingly strange bedfellows, in their respective linguistic communities Newman is considered an intellectual defender of institutional Christianity, while Unamuno is oft characterized as its greatest heretic. This dissertation is a comparative study of both writers from a historical-critical perspective. Our aim is to suggest that the heroic defenses of conscience by both Newman and Unamuno towards the end of their lives are a logical corollary to a succession of actions and writings …

El Que ©Opia Paga, Eva NúÑEz-MéNdez

World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations

Examines the roles of authors, publishers and consumers in an attempt to make sense out of current laws regarding copyright, fair use, and author's rights.

Review Of Women In Argentina: Early Travel Narratives By Mónica Szurmuk, Women At Sea: Travel Writing And The Margins Of Caribbean Discourse Ed. By Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert And Ivette Romero-Cesareo, And In Praise Of New Travelers: Reading Caribbean Migrant Women’S Writing By Isabel Hoving., Lee Joan Skinner

CMC Faculty Publications and Research

In recent years, travel writing, once considered a minor genre, has been the subject of increased critical attention. Critics have focused on the ways in which travel narratives serve both to construct and to destabilize notions of identity at the individual, regional, and national levels. As the books under consideration here show, travel narratives produced by Caribbean and Latin American women writers in particular, demonstrate the malleability of subject positions, as the women travelers interrogate their shifting roles vis-à-vis the metropolis as well as male-dominated writing traditions.

Selected Definitions For Work In Communication And Media Studies & Selected Bibliography Of Publications In Comparative Media Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

No abstract provided.

Imágenes Carnavalesco Y Culinario En La Obra De Rosario Ferré, Antonio Medina-Rivera

World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Review Of "Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry", Marianne Rogoff

Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship

"From the center and edges of the vast and diverse landscape of contemporary Mexico, whose 'boundaries are largely the accidents of history,' the poets in Reversible Monuments ponder the limits of consciousness and search for meaning(s)."

Spatiality And Psychology In Miguel Delibes' La Sombra Del Cipres Es Alargada, Mark J. Mascia

Languages Faculty Publications

This article aims to examine how spatiality structures the psyche and ideology of the protagonist, Pedro, of Miguel Delibes' novel La sombra del cipres es alargada, as seen in his internal monologues and his relationships with others. Spatial references become pivotal not only in the development of the action but also in Pedro's personal development and in the articulation of existential concepts.

Development Of Oral Communication Skills Abroad., Christina Isabelli

Scholarship

This study examines the impact of a semester study abroad experience in Argentina on the second language acquisition of three American university Spanish learners. The goal is to measure development of two aspects of oral communication skills: fluency and performance in the oral functions of narration, and description and supporting an opinion.

The Living World, Politics, And Nation: Nature And Discourse In The Poetry Of Nicolás Guillén, Mark J. Mascia

Languages Faculty Publications

Through an analysis of key examples of Guillén's use of nature throughout his poetry, this article presents the argument that they all are fundamentally rooted in a configuration of nature as a living being and in an understanding of humanity's place as part of nature. For Guillén, nature is not simply something that he merely appreciates as a theme; rather, it is a vital element central to his view of the worid and to his development as a writer. The collections examined here are West Indies, Ltd., El son entero, and La paloma de vuelo popula.

Al Niño Y La Voz A Ti Debida: Dos Realidades Ideales, Irune Del Rio Gabiola

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

PEDRO Salinas es el poeta moderno del amor influido tanto por el gusto renacentista, con alusiones implicitas a Jorge Manrique y Garcilaso, como por el gusto romintico -Espronceda o Becquer-. Su obra poetica se enmarca en tres fases claramente diferenciadas por Juan Marichal en Tres Voces de Pedro Salinas. "La primera que corresponde alas dos d6cadas 1913-1933, es la fase de lo que podrfamos denominar fase de encentraci6nl;a segunda, de 1933-1936, es la fase de lo que podrfamos denominar de descentracio6enn el th de la amada, y la tercera, de 1936 a 1951, es la fase final de sobre-centracioe6nn el …

La Celestina O La Normatividad Fallida, Irune Del Rio Gabiola

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

El mundo caótico establecido a través de las relaciones personales entre los personajes de La Celestina revela la debilidad de un sistema normativo tradicional que finalmente triunfa gracias a la tragedia —al drama derivado de la trasgresión del sistema bajo el cual los diversos personajes se construyen más bien por impulsos placenteros e instintos que por la moral y la ética ordenada. En este sentido podemos estudiar la obra como un «exemplum»; «Sin duda, el honor, el deber, la fama, el puesto social, etcétera, son principios vigentes para la sociedad española de fines del xv. (...) Pero, puesto que se …

Good Intentions Aren't Enough: Intellectuals And Violence In Luis Goytisolo's Mzungo, Terri Carney

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

In the 1990s Luis Goytisolo explores the possibilities of popular fiction, adapting various genres (travel, mystery, erotic, historical) to accomodate his long-term project of unpacking Western Values. Indeed, Goytisolo’s flirtation with the best-selling genre fiction constitutes a postmodern gesture of “complicitous critique.”For example, in Escalera hacia el cielo (1999) Goytisolo exploits the erotic genre to challenge the traditional paradigm of the dominant male gaze and the objectified female body and to offer instead expressions of mutuality. In Mzungo (1996), Goytisolo engages the travel novel to undermine the culturally dominant position of the white European male who “discovers” an unknown culture/geography …

Introduction: Selected Proceedings Of The First Workshop On Spanish Sociolinguistics, Lotfi Sayahi

Languages, Literatures and Cultures Faculty Scholarship

This introduction to the Selected Proceedings of the First Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics includes the background for the conference, descriptions of the papers chosen for the volume, acknowledgments, and references.

La Conservación Del Artículo Definido 'Al' En Las Palabras Españolas De Origen Árabe, Lotfi Sayahi

Languages, Literatures and Cultures Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Sabbatical In Mexico, Robert Frost

Sabbaticals

No abstract provided.

La Aniquilación De Las Bellas Artes Y De La Aristocracia En Las Obras De Rosario Ferré, Antonio Medina-Rivera

World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications

About the literary works of Rosario Ferré.

The Hispanic And Luso-Brazilian World: El Proceso De Convertirse En Hombre En Las Historias De Piri Thomas Y Pedro Juan Soto., Antonio Medina-Rivera

World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications

En este estudio se examina el proceso de convertirse en hombre en el cuento "Campeones" de Pedro Juan Soto y en la autobiografia Down These Mean Streets de Piri Thomas. Varios de los elementos que aparecen en el movimiento masculino sirven como punto de partida para esta investigacion: la violencia, la figura del heroe y el distanciamiento entre padre e hijo. En el analisis se ven las figuras masculinas desde la perspectiva del varon que pertenece a un grupo minoritario dentro del conglomerado multicultural de los Estados Unidos. Con este estudio se pretende ofrecer una vision mas amplia del varon …

Lolita Lebrón Y Minerva Mirabal: Mitificación Y Desmitificación Del Héroe Político, Antonio Medina-Rivera

World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

El Neopolicial De Paco Ignacio Taibo Ii: Una Resolución De La Historia?, H. Rosi Song

Spanish Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Las Formas El Enigma En Azul De Rubn Daro, Jorge Brioso

Faculty Work

No abstract provided.

Entre La Cotidianeidad, El Pacer Y La Fuga: Fragmentos Narrativos De Una Transición, Alvaro Kaempfer

Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies Faculty Publications

Tanto la reflexión cultural bajo la dictadura como aquella surgida durante el proceso de transición han nutrido una literatura que indaga los límites del lenguaje en relación con las diversas experiencias vividas bajo los regímenes dictatoriales del cono sur. La producción literaria de Andrea Maturana (Chile, 1969) no es ajena a dichos fenómenos. Desde sus primeros cuentos, esta escritora dio cuenta de escenarios vitalmente atomizados donde los demás eran, precisamente, los bordes tangibles y cotidianos de experiencias sociales tan traumáticas como insolubles. Esa atomización vital no sólo se deja leer como una respuesta a un medio agresivo sino, además, como …

Toward A Framework Of Audience Studies In Comparative Cultural Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

No abstract provided.

Un’Agra Salita. Lettura Di ‘Autostrada Della Cisa’ Di Vittorio Sereni, Stefano Giannini

Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics - All Scholarship

Luciano Bianciardi (1922-1971) wants to open a dialogue with his friend Vittorio Sereni (1913-1983) through the pages of his best-selling novel La vita agra (1962). Sereni does not respond immediately, and the approach seems not to have received Sereni’s attention. The analysis of Sereni’s 1981 poem “Autostrada della Cisa” proves that he ultimately decided to reply to his friend’s irreverent, yet congenial, comments, albeit nearly 20 years later. This article underlines the existential crisis expressed by Sereni in his poem, accompanied by his willingness to enter into a dialogue with any reader, despite the nihilistic outcomes he foresees. His efforts …

Active Learning Techniques To Teach Spanish Vocabulary, Sara E. Janssen

Graduate Research Papers

The journal article, "Pictures, John Travolta moves, and Sign Language: Active Learning Techniques to Teach Spanish Vocabulary," discusses the experiences 8th grade Spanish students had while using three instructional practices for learning vocabulary. Active learning strategies are a popular method for educators, especially those at the middle level. Educators can get their students active in learning by doing many different things. Pictures, "silly signs," and sign language were used to engage my students in learning fourteen Spanish vocabulary words.

Three groups of Spanish exploratory classes were the subjects in this study. Each of the three groups received instruction using one …