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Los Espacios Ideológicos En Carmen Baroja, Escritora Del 98, Iker González-Allende

Spanish Language and Literature Papers

En las memorias escritas por Carmen Baraja en 1946, tituladas, Recuerdos de una mujer de la generación del 98, se aprecian claramente las diferentes etapas que ella misma establece para su vida: la niñez, la juventud, la madurez y la vejez, y cómo siempre en todas ellas exceptuando en la primera y en la última hay uná dialéctica entre la realidad y la voluntad o el deseo. Esta oposición se vehicula a través del espacio: el privado, representado en las distintas residencias de la familia Baroja, y el público, que se materializa en el exterior del hogar. En este …

Rulfo En Donoso: Comala Y El Olivo Como Espacios Infernales, Iker González-Allende

Spanish Language and Literature Papers

En 1965 José Donoso viaja a México para un simposio, a instancias de su amigo Carlos Fuentes. El salir de su país, Chile, y encontrarse con un nuevo espacio y con una gran diversidad de escritores supuso un cambio importante en su quehacer como narrador. Llevaba un tiempo obsesionado con lo que después sería su novela El obsceno pájaro de la noche, pero por entonces no era capaz de plasmar en papel las ideas que flotaban en su mente. Además, se sentía atrapado en Chile, donde no disponía de muchos momentos para dedicarse a su obra, ya que era …

El Mar Y La Pared: El Exilio Histórico Frente Al Exilio Existencial En La Poesía Final De Ernestina De Champourcin, Iker González-Allende

Spanish Language and Literature Papers

La guerra civil española (1936-1939) tuvo como consecuencia en el ámbito cultural vasco el exilio de muchos intelectuales, tanto de ideología nacionalista como republicana. Sin embargo, ésta no era la primera vez en la que el pueblo vasco se veía obligado al alejamiento de su tierra, ni tampoco la última, aunque fue la ocasión en que más personalidades de la esfera de la cultura partieron hacia otras latitudes. San Miguel y Ascunce diferencian dos momentos migratorios vascos en torno a la guerra: uno anterior a 1936, debido a razones laborales, y otro posterior a 1939, causado por la situación política. …

«L’Arbre» De Gabrielle Roy: Une Hirondelle D’Hiver Dans Un Chêne Vert De Floride, Thomas M. Carr Jr.

French Language and Literature Papers

On connaît bien les voyages de Gabrielle Roy au Manitoba pour rendre visite à sa famille et ses séjours à Petite-Rivière-Saint-François dans Charlevoix. C’est seulement depuis la publication de ses lettres à son mari qu’on commence à mieux apprécier ses séjours en Floride dans les années cinquante et soixante. Au moins une nouvelle, écrite semble-t-il en Floride en 1967-1968, s’inspire de ces voyages, mais puisqu’elle n’a été reprise dans aucun recueil, elle reste mal connue. Elle n’a généralement été étudiée que dans le cadre du symbolisme du monde naturel chez Roy (Gagné, 1973; Harvey, 1993). Pourtant, François Ricard a attribué …

Review Of Jean-Nicolas Illouz, Le Symbolisme, Marshall C. Olds

French Language and Literature Papers

As emphases in literary studies have shifted away from structuralist, semiotic, and other modes of reading informed by theory toward historically-oriented esthetic and cultural analysis, we have needed a new examination of Symbolism that would account for its complexities both as a literary and artistic movement and as a “compound moment” in literary and cultural history. Jean-Nicolas Illouz has provided the foundation for such a reexamination. His study is, to my knowledge, the most complete and nuanced overview of the movement that we have, bringing together in a historically informed and carefully researched reading of Symbolism as both the point …

Going Through The Trash: Meaning In The Cabaret And Cabinet Baroque Lyric, Russell J. Ganim

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications

Joan DeJean's recent book, The Reinvention of Obscenity, brings front and center issues of filth and impiety as they relate to cultural norms. DeJean's assertion that "Paris was the center for the production of dirty books and dirty pictures” in the Early Modern period underscores the extent to which obscene literature becomes a cultural referent, either open or clandestine. While her focus is on obscenity as it relates to the neo- Classical era, DeJean emphasizes that the Baroque period also contributed to the "reinvention" of smut that characterized a distinct element of literary and artistic production during the seventeenth …

Neither Grobalized Nor Glocalized: Fuguet’S Or Lemebel’S Metropolis?, J. Agustín Pastén B.

Spanish Language and Literature Papers

I am interested in examining how globalization is having an impact in narrative representation and especially in verifying whether writers embrace or reject global forces and how they do so. Specifically, this article examines both the dilution and the rescuing of "the own" within the parameters of the contemporary Latin America capital city by focusing its attention on very recent literary and theoretical discourses produced in the continent. The incessant influx of novels, short-stories, urban chronicles and other texts into the market occasioned by multinational publishing houses makes it impossible to provide a comprehensive view of literary representation of the …

De La Pasividad Al Poder Sexual Y Económico: El Sujeto Activo En Sirena Selena, Iker González-Allende

Spanish Language and Literature Papers

Con su primera novela, Sirena Selena vestida de pena (2000), la puertorriqueña Mayra Santos-Febres (Puerto Rico, 1966) ha logrado convertirse en una de las autoras más destacadas de la literatura caribeña contemporánea. Anteriormente había publicado dos libros de relatos: Pez de vidrio ( 1996) y El cuerpo correcto (1996), asi como los libros de poemas El orden escapado (1991) y Anamú y manigua ( 1991). En 2000 publicó su poemario Tercer Mundo, y en 2002 salió a la luz su segunda novela, Cualquier miércoles soy tuya, de género detectivesco, donde vuelve a tratar el tema del género sexual. En …

La Novela Rosa De Ambientación Vasca E Ideología Franquista Durante La Guerra Civil Española (The Basque Romance Novel And Its Francoist Ideology During The Spanish Civil War), Iker González-Allende

Spanish Language and Literature Papers

Un estudio de la producción de la novela rosa publicada durante la guerra civil con una ambientación vasca. Se analizan Madrina de guerra (s.a.), de Rosa de Arámburu; La enfermera de Ondárroa (1938), de Jorge Villarín; y ¡Milagrosa! (s.a.), de Fernando de Ayala. El objetivo consiste en demostrar la conjunción en estas obras del elemento rosa o sentimental con el ideológico de la España de Franco, exponiéndose los procedimientos que utilizan estos autores para fagocitar la identidad vasca dentro de la española.

Espainiako gerran argitaratu zen euskal giroan kokaturiko eleberri arrosaren produkzioa da azterlan honen gaia. Rosa de Arámbururen Madrina …

Review Of Tristan L’Hermite: Oeuvres Complètes. Iii: Poésie (Ii). Volume Publié Sous La Direction De Jean-Pierre Chauveau, Russell J. Ganim

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications

This effort marks the second volume of poetry in a five-set edition of complete works consisting of Tristan’s prose, poetry and tragedies, as well as other plays and the Plaidoyers historiques. The present volume represents the culmination of an extensive undertaking by Champion and by noted Tristan scholars to render the Baroque author’s known works more accessible to researchers, students and the literate public. By any measure, the results are eminently satisfying both in terms of the volume in question and the entire project. This volume centres on texts composed and published mainly in the period afterwards. The principal …

Théâtre Et Théâtralité Chez Flaubert, Marshall C. Olds

French Language and Literature Papers

De tous les écrits dits secondaires de Gustave Flaubert, c'est incontestablement son théâtre qui a été le dernier à susciter un examen critique sérieux. Dans l'immense bibliographie consacrée au romancier et à son oeuvre, les études sur le théâtre ont, jusqu'à très récemment, occupé peu de place : quelques pages, lues ça et là dans les analyses des romans ou dans les biographies, un nombre infime d'articles consacrés aux caractéristiques théâtrales de l'oeuvre romanesque, la publication très irrégulière d'inédits de projets de théâtre ou de notes de lecture théâtrale dont les manuscrits font surface de temps en temps dans le …

Globalisation And 'La Pièce De Cent Sous': Balzac's Nation-State, Marshall C. Olds

French Language and Literature Papers

Seen from an Olympian perspective, globalisation in today's world denotes the use of a standard model to establish relationships economic, cultural, and moral—across peoples in the absence of national boundaries capable of restraining the formation of such ties. From the national, or local, perspective, it is the invasive imposition of foreign influence in the form of a single model. From either vantage point, change and adaptation are the order of the day. Take-overs of one culture by another, whether hostile or friendly, are not historical novelties; what seems to distinguish globalisation is its planetary scope and impetus to take over …

Visiones Del Desencanto: Nostalgia Y Melancolía En El Cine De Fernando Fernán-Gómez Y José Luis Garci, Oscar Pereira Zazo

Spanish Language and Literature Papers

Este trabajo va en busca de los síntomas de la melancolía, la enfermedad del tiempo, en cuatro películas españolas: Asignatura pendiente (1977) y Volver a empezar (1982) de José Luis Garci, junto con Mambrú se fue a la guerra (1985) y El mar y el tiempo (1989) de Fernando Fernán-Gómez. La elección de estas películas obedece a dos razones:

1) Comparten rasgos centrales, a saber, que las historias se ambientan en un pasado reciente, que aluden a la llamada transición democrática española y que elaboran los temas de la desesperanza, la desilusión y el desencanto. El examen de estos rasgos …

Visual Culture: The Later Mallarmé And Japonisme, Marshall C. Olds

French Language and Literature Papers

Like his painter-contemporaries, Mallarmé’s attention to japonisme was to a visual phenomenon. Like them, he had a strong visual sense, and one could argue that even the early poems that tried to apprehend nothingness did so as if the problem were a visual one even if the results were more the ideas of things seen, rather than the creation of images. His visual orientation did change dramatically, however, by the time of La Dernière Mode in 1874, readying him for the acculturation to be provided first by Manet, and then by others, notably Whistler. The esthetics of japonisme is a …

Well-Structured Texts Help Second-Year German Students Learn To Narrate, Priscilla A. Hayden-Roy

German Language and Literature Papers

The past twenty years have seen a significant paradigm shift in foreign language pedagogy from measuring language achievement (based on a defined and finite curriculum, such as a textbook chapter or a grammar lesson) to measuring proficiency (general competence in the foreign language independent of a defined curriculum). Building on the work done previously in language testing by government language schools, the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines (1986) sought to reach consensus about describing and measuring language abilities. These Guidelines give generalized descriptions of abilities at four levels of proficiency (Novice, Intermediate, Advanced, Superior). With the widespread recognition of these Guidelines have …

Benito Pérez Galdós, Harriet Stevens Turner

Spanish Language and Literature Papers

In Galdós' time, the tensions between such diverse phenomena as coins and credit, free trade and protectionist tariffs, factory work and domestic economy, masculine and feminine, and private and public exacerbated friction among peoples—those of "pueblo" and rural origins, whose voices rasped and whose bright colors raked the eye, and a nascent, insecure bourgeosie who, fearful of the masses, strove to imitate the aristocracy. Old and new converged also with the question of suffrage and citizenship to aggravate social malaise and political upheavals—Carlist wars, palace intrigues, the Revolution of 1868 and overthrow of Queen Isabel, the brief reign of Amadeo …

El Exilio Como Viaje Y Destino Final En La Poesía De Evocación Y De Deseo De Ernestina De Champourcin, Iker González-Allende

Spanish Language and Literature Papers

El regreso a Madrid en 1972 tras treinta y tres años de exilio supone para Champourcin el surgimiento del recuerdo de ese viaje de huida motivado por la guerra civil. Como resultado, publica Primer exilio en 1978; es decir, la vuelta a su país motiva una reflexión sobre el origen de su partida y las circunstancias que la causaron. El retorno a España puede entenderse como un segundo destierro, de ahí la presencia del determinante numeral en el título del poemario. Villar indica que frente al desarraigo de carácter físico de 1939, la llegada a Madrid supone un segundo exilio …

Scatology, The Last Taboo: Introduction To Fecal Matters In Early Modern Literature And Art, Jeff Persels, Russell J. Ganim

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications

This collection of essays was provoked by what its editors considered to be a curious lacuna: the relative academic neglect of the copious and ubiquitous scatological rhetoric of Early Modem Europe, here broadly defined as the representation of the process and product of elimination of the body’s waste products (feces, urine, flatus, phlegm, vomitus). Our most educated forebears, different from ourselves, did not disdain it — if such proof may be found in the mere proliferation of examples — and, further, employed it in all manner of works, not just in the crude jokes of comic ephemera. This neglect led …

Entre La Modestia Y El Orgullo: Las Coordenadas Metapoéticas De Carolina Coronado, Iker González-Allende

Spanish Language and Literature Papers

En la poesía de Carolina Coronado (1820-1911) encontramos un gran número de reflexiones sobre sus propios versos y en general sobre el papel de la poesía escrita por la mujer. De esta manera, el elemento metapoético adquiere una relevancia decisiva para comprender mejor la producción de la autora extremeña y por extensión la de las mujeres poetas que decidieron sacar a la luz sus escritos en el siglo XIX. Sara Pujol Russell señala que de los 577 poemas de Coronado, 107 desarrollan de una forma u otra el aspecto metaliterario (par. 1). La explicación a este fenómeno radica en las …

Eugenio O Proclamación De La Primavera, De García Serrano: Narrativa Falangista Durante La Guerra Civil, Iker González-Allende

Spanish Language and Literature Papers

Durante los años de la guerra civil Española (1936-1939), la producción poética y teatral se desarrolló más que la narrativa. Esto ha provocado una ausencia de estas obras en prosa en la mayoría de las historias de la literatura, y en general, un desconocimiento por parte de muchos críticos. Sin embargo, es recurrente la presencia de la guerra civil como temática narrativa en toda la postguerra, en la actualidad y en el futuro. Como indica Bertrand de Muñoz, el conjunto de novelas sobre la guerra civil desde 1936' hasta hoyes numeroso: cerca de mil trescientas obras, en doce idiomas, y …

Pissing Glass And The Body Crass: Adaptations Of The Scatological In Théophile, Russell J. Ganim

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications

Examination of scatological motifs in Théophile de Viau’s (1590-1626) libertine, or ‘cabaret’ poetry is important in terms of how the scatological contributes to the depiction of the Early Modern body in the French lyric.1 This essay does not examine Théophile’s portrait of the body strictly in terms of the ‘Baroque’ or the ‘neo-Classical.’ Rather, it argues that the scatological context in which he situates the body (either his, or those of others), reflects a keen sensibility of the body representative of the transition between these two eras. Théophile reinforces what Bernard Beugnot terms the body’s inherent ‘eloquence’ (17), or what …

Review Of Mannerism And Baroque In Seventeenth-Century French Poetry: The Example Of Tristan L’Hermite, By James C. Shepard, Russell J. Ganim

French Language and Literature Papers

Interest in Tristan L’Hermite has not only been sustained, but has grown considerably since 1955, when Amédée Carriat published Tristan ou L’Eloge d’un poète and his Bibliographie des oeuvres de Tristan L’Hermite. Carriat’s work on the Cahiers Tristan L’Hermite, as well as the scholarship of Claude Abraham, Catherine Grisé, and Jean-Pierre Chauveau among others, has laid the groundwork for a number of new inquiries into Tristan’s oeuvre. Colloquia on Tristan have been organized in France and the U.S. in recent years, and the Tristan “revival” reached an apex of sorts in 1999 with Champion’s publication of his Oeuvres complètes …

Métissage Et Fables De La Reconstruction Dans Les Textes Sur Le Génocide Rwandais, Marie-Chantal Kalisa

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: Presentations

Le génocide des Tutsis au Rwanda a été exécuté dans le contexte de l’idéologie « génocidaire » mise en place par les gouvernements postcoloniaux qui se sont succédé depuis l’indépendance. Cette idéologie incitait à la haine et à l’extermination d’un groupe entier, les Tutsis, le mot d’ordre de la politique étant de maintenir une nette opposition entre deux identités prétendument ethniques. L’écriture de la période post-génocidaire cherche certes à dénoncer cette idéologie destructrice, mais au-delà de cette analyse du « piège ethnique », elle montre en divers endroits, de la part de l’écrivain, un certain désir, de dépasser ce moment …

Refining The Metaphor In Lessing's "Erziehung Des Menschengeschlechts", Priscilla A. Hayden-Roy

German Language and Literature Papers

Lessing's Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts (EdM) first appeared, albeit in incomplete form, appended to the fourth of Lessing's Gegensätze zu Reimarus in 1777. It constitutes part of Lessing's response to the rationalistic polemic Lessing's "Ungenannter," Hermann Samuel Reimarus, directed against many of the fundamental dogmas of orthodox Christianity, and seeks to define a position which preserves the authority of reason, while at the same time defining a legitimate historical role for revealed religion. I wish to investigate here the hermeneutical model Lessing puts forward in the EdM in the context of his response to Reimarus. We will see that while Lessing …

Avatares Del Proceso De La Institucionalización De La Literatura En Chile En Las Revistas Literarias Del Siglo Xix, J. Agustín Pastén B.

Spanish Language and Literature Papers

En su estudio sobre José Victorino Lastarria, quien junto a Bello y Sarmiento desempeñó un papel fundamental en la vida intelectual del Chile decimonónico, Bernardo Subercaseaux afirma que su famoso Discurso del 3 de mayo de 1842, entre otras cosas, institucionaliza la literatura chilena (Cultura 62). Oscar L. Vera, por su parte, al reflexionar sobre la misma en 1933 concluye que ésta sigue siendo "una literatura en formación" (289), mientras que Lautaro Yankas marca el año 1938 como el momento en que recién empieza a tomar forma la literatura chilena (111). El nacimiento de la literatura en Chile, al …

L’Excitation Insolite : La Perversité Amoureuse Chez Tristan, Russell J. Ganim

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications

CET EXPOSÉ S’ATTACHE à poser les questions suivantes: En quoi consiste le désir chez Tristan? Et comment le désir s’exprime-t-il? Nous pouvons, dans un premier temps, discerner des parallèles très forts entre Tristan et certains poètes/amants de la Pléiade. En fait, le poète se voit souvent comme un amant maudit dont l’affection ne sera jamais partagée par sa bien-aimée ingrate. Mais au moment même où Tristan choisit ce portrait commun pour se dépeindre, il modifie l’image du poète/amant traditionnel en y ajoutant une dimension sinistre, voire perverse. Par moments, la passion chez Tristan se montre non seulement mélancolique mais violente. …

Intercourse As Discourse: The Calculus Of Objectification And Desire In The Novel And Film Versions Of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Russell J. Ganim

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications

The calculus of objectifi cation and desire in both the novel and film versions of Choderlos de Laclos’s Liaisons dangereuses is derived in two principal ways. The first derivation, that of the Sadean will to objectify the other for erotic and intellectual satisfaction, precedes the second, that of the overarching wish to produce a written object announcing the conquest of the human object. Limited by the medium, the film adaptations of the Liaisons dangereuses cannot place as great an emphasis on the composition of letters. Nevertheless, they make allusions to it in such a manner that underscores this type of …

Les Abbesses Et La Parole Au Dix-Septième Siècle: Les Discours Monastiques À La Lumière Des Interdictions Pauliniennes, Thomas M. Carr Jr.

French Language and Literature Papers

One tends to take for granted that in women’s monasteries the only voices raised were those of its masculine directors and preachers. However, while sermons by priests were generally reserved for Sundays and feast days, the abbesses addressed their communities several times a week or even daily. Although the Pauline prohibitions restricted women from speaking on religious topics in public or to mixed groups, within the walls of the convent that was assimilated to the private domain of a household, abbesses exhorted, instructed and rebuked their nuns at chapter meetings or during recreation sessions. Many such talks might have been …

L'Identité Québécoise En Ligne, Thomas M. Carr Jr.

French Language and Literature Papers

Le présent article se composera donc de deux parties. S'organisant autour de plusieurs tensions dans les valeurs québécoises, la première passera en revue le contenu de nombreux sites Internet. Elle mettra ainsi en lumière certains choix culturels des Québécois qui caractérisent leur mode de vie de ceux des Français, des États-Uniens et des Canadiens anglais. On trouvera ensuite, en appendice, une évaluation critique des principaux portails et sites Web généralistes qui traitent du Québec dans les domaines de la langue, de l'histoire, de la culture et de la géographie. L'interprétation de l'identité québécoise dans la première partie est proposée comme …

The Realist Novel, Harriet Stevens Turner

Spanish Language and Literature Papers

When we think of realism in fiction, we think first of mimesis—the imitation of life—a concept that at once implies the existence of something outside the writer’s own mind which he or she is trying to imitate. The imitation of this supposedly external “thing” undergirds the term “realism,” whether applied to painting, philosophy, literature, or film. As Harry Levin reminds us, “Etymologically, realism is thing-ism. The adjective ‘real’ derives from the Latin res [meaning ‘thing’] and finds an appropriate context in ‘real estate’”—land, property, things. The realist novel in Spain places a special emphasis on this primary engagement with the …