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Nueva gramática de la lengua española

2025-11-06T16:38:15+01:00

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Comedia Auriburlesca: Postilas

2025-07-22T16:36:42+02:00

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Naguib Mahfuz, novelista universal

2025-03-09T10:49:02+01:00

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Heroicas ciudades. La ciudad provinciana en la narrativa española contemporánea

2025-01-09T17:38:15+01:00

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Estereotipos hispano-alemanes en la literatura de viajes del siglo XIX

2025-08-07T13:34:49+02:00

Se puede decir que esta obra supone una aportación significativa a la ciencia literaria especializada en el género del relato de viajes y que ha sido diseñada desde un enfoque comparatista en el que se abordan las relaciones hispano-alemanas. La obra condensa la esencia de los estereotipos históricos, esencialmente los del siglo XIX. En ella se subraya la necesidad de favorecer el aprecio a la alteridad cultural con tolerancia, apertura y sin prejuicios. La abundancia de perspectivas abordadas es loable en este estudio. La autora transmite la cristalización de numerosas ideas etnográficas, descripciones de paisajes, ciudades, minas, climas y gentes en un estilo fluido y transparente y mediante un uso estético del lenguaje. Se emplea además con acierto la terminología científica especializada. Por todo ello, esta monografía merece ser tenida en cuenta gracias a su valor teórico y aplicado dentro de la literatura especializada en el género de la literatura de viajes.

Beethoven y Galdós: vidas paralelas

2025-09-12T16:50:55+02:00

Héctor Rolando Rodríguez, Kiwi, haijin of Paraná

2025-01-30T11:22:59+01:00

The operational objective of this work is to point out and analyze the features of haiku in the poetry of Héctor Rolando Rodríguez (Santa Fe, Argentina, 1940-2011), alias Kiwi; especially, in his first collection of poems, Poemas (1986). We review in it some of the main features of this Japanese lyrical modality that, according to prominent scholars (Paz, 1982; Villalba, 1983; Silva, 2005; Svanascini, 2007; Haya, 2012; Takaki, 2023; Arellano, 2024), are typical of haiku. There are fourteen of such features that are present in Poemas. We propose the hypothesis that Kiwi, who produces his work in intimate relationship with nature, is an haijin of the Paraná as a region (Ledesma, 1964; Prieto A., [1973] 2022). In fact, he has most of the characteristics of the so-called “haiku man” (Silva, 2005). The ultimate objective of our analysis is to highlight the place of Kiwi, poet and potter, not only as an author of a region, due to the experiential link with his environment, but also as part of a much broader tradition, even of the world.

Women, exile, past and other puppeteer’s strings in Nabokov’s short fiction

2024-11-19T17:13:58+01:00

This paper approaches the role of women, past and exile in Nabokov’s short story. First, we will understand how Vladimir Nabokov uses the female figure to stand for his lost Russia and to vent his feelings of nostalgia. Nabokov’s short stories, especially the first ones, are based on Russian expatriates’ loss and loneliness. However, the author finally changes his attitude. Then, different examples of his later production are given in which the author ironizes upon some literary motifs, especially related to female characters, in order to distance himself from his feelings of loss. We will appreciate how Nabokov uses the female figures skillfully to create problems and literary puzzles for the reader to solve in his short stories. At the end, the paper sheds light upon how the female figures are associated with problematizing literary conventions as a way of exploring different fictional possibilities in Vladimir Nabokov’s last short stories.

Baltasar Gracián and Saavedra Fajardo in 17th Century Germany. Daniel Casper von Lohenstein’s Glance at Spain

2025-06-11T09:55:56+02:00

This article explores the presence of Hispanic thought, articulated by Diego de Saavedra Fajardo and Baltasar Gracián, on the works of the Silesian writer Daniel Casper von Lohenstein. Lohenstein’s erudition in jurisprudence and reason of State, coupled with his linguistic knowledge, enabled him to engage directly with the Spanish writings and the broader intellectual discourse of 17th century Spain. This engagement allowed him to assimilate these ideas into his own literary output and intellectual worldview. This influence will be traced through his prose works, particularly the Arminius and the panegyric to Duke Georg Wilhelm. The present study aims to shed new light on literary transfer between Spain and Germany in the 17th century.

Narrator, Context and Euphony as Reception-Strategy of Fictional Languages in Contemporary Epic Fantasy. The Language of the Fae in The Kingkiller Chronicle (2007-), by Patrick Rothfuss

2025-01-09T17:24:52+01:00

The objective of this article is to explore the specifics of fictional languages as a reception-strategy in contemporary epic fantasy. For this, I will begin from two theoretic fields: the first one, related to the hermeneutics and aesthetics of reception, the ideal, implicit and model reader; and the second one, related to glossolalia, glossopoiesis and the creation of artificial languages inside and outside of art. Next, I will present this reception-strategy as an artifact based on emotions, which the receptor accesses through three elements: narrator, context and euphony. Finally, I will analyze the language of the Fae in The Kingkiller Chronicle (2007-), by Patrick Rothfuss, as an example of this kind of reception-strategy in a work of contemporary epic fantasy.

Desacralization and Latin Teaching. Baroque Allegoresis in “Grammarian Satire” of Hispanic 18th Century

2024-12-13T18:05:45+01:00

The aim of this paper is to show how desacralized mythology becomes a useful tool to improve sarcastic ingenuity in a literary genre called “grammarian satire” which was significantly important and divulgated along the Spanish 18^th century due to the didactic nature of showing the educational defects of Baroque teaching by the critical reflection of an Enlightened laughter. In this article, first, allegoresis along with its approaches will be analysed in a panoramic way as literary forms of desacralizing Classical mythology from Antiquity to the 18th century; in the following sections, it will be observed how topics and figures of ancient myths, under its allegorical and euhemerist frames, are used for ironic purposes in the eighteenth-century literary works of the Jesuit José Francisco de Isla and of professor Manuel de Vegas y Quintano.

The Hollywood Novel in the Mexican Post-neodetective Narrative the Film Industry in Trago amargo, by F. G. Haghenbeck

2024-12-19T17:46:10+01:00

The interest of the Mexican writer F. G. Haghenbeck in the world of cinema was evident in the three novels starring the detective Sunny Pascal: Trago amargo (2006), El caso Tequila (2011) and Por un puñado de balas (2016). In the first work of this trilogy he used the subgenre of the Hollywood novel, to which the text belongs, to offer a demystifying vision of the film industry that is maintained in the rest of the saga. Although the action takes place in the 1960s, during the filming in Mexico of the movie The Night of the Iguana (1964), Haghenbeck creates a post-neodetective narrative that addresses pressing problems in contemporary Mexican society. To understand how the subgenre of the Hollywood novel adapts to the Mexican sociopolitical and post-neodetective contexts, it will be tried to determine how both are combined in Trago amargo. To do this, at first, the presence of the Hollywood novel in the Mexican crime narrative of the 21st century will be established. Secondly, Haghenbeck's position in the post-neopolice panorama will be explained and the meaning of this literary concept will be specified. Thirdly, it will be studied how the demystifying view of the world of cinema fits this narrative by denouncing the vices of the film’s performers and the corruption that surrounds the film. Thus, it is expected to understand the way in which the Hollywood novel adapts to the sociopolitical criticism of the post-neodetective narrative.

Error Analysis and Pragmatic Failure in learners of English as a Foreign Language: preliminary evaluation of exploration results

2025-02-09T10:22:04+01:00

The aim of this study is to analyze the pragmatic competence of a group of 50 B2-level English learners through the analysis of pragmatic errors (Grice, 1975; Lin, 2008; Sharifam, 2015) in written productions over a two-month period. The methodology employed includes a detailed analysis of pragmatic and communicative errors in essays written by the intervention group learners, identifying pragmatic failures and their relationship with intercultural and communicative competence. The results indicate that the main pragmatic failure is due to cultural discernment (Hymes, 1972; Latif, 2001). Thanks to the methodological approach, pragmatic errors are classified into different linguistic and sociopragmatic errors, along with their nature; the former are determined to occur when the speaker's expression does not match native habits, while the latter are concluded to be due to discrepancies with the native speaker's culture and customs (Grice, 1975; Lin, 2008; Sharifam, 2015; Yamashita, 2018). The analysis demonstrates that language mastery must include the appropriate use of grammatical competence in the target language, which is a recognized challenge in foreign language teaching (Ellis, 2020; Krashen, 2022).

The conceptualization of neurodivergence in Asturian phraseology

2025-01-10T12:27:03+01:00

This work approaches Asturian phraseology from the conceptual domain of neurodivergences, specifically madness and foolishness, according to colloquial terminology, employing cognitive semantics as its theoretical framework. The analysis is based on thirty phrases selected from the DALLA (Diccionariu de l’Academia de la Llingua Asturiana) and the DGLA (Diccionario General de la Lengua Asturiana). The research aims to shed light on the conceptual metaphors that underpin these expressions, offering insight into how madness and foolishness are linguistically perceived and represented in Asturian, identifying patterns of metaphorical thinking and linking them to broader cognitive structures that reflect the perception of neurodiversity within the centre-periphery and normativity-non-normativity framework. The results demonstrate the significant role of metaphor in the formation and understanding of idiomatic expressions, contributing, on one hand, to expanding the field of phraseological studies in Asturian, and on the other, to highlighting the cultural and cognitive dimensions of language, emphasising the importance of metaphor in everyday communication.

Cycling Through Metaphysical Landscapes: A Relativistic Reading of Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman

2025-01-02T09:40:09+01:00

The works of Brian Ó Nualláin, who wrote under the pen name Flann O’Brien, have been difficult to categorize in terms of the literary movement to which they belong. Some researchers have deemed them as post-modern while more recent studies point to a more modernist approach to his work. This paper reads Flann O’Brien’s novel The Third Policeman in reference to the topic of real and metaphysical space. The events in this novel take place within a fantastic and bizarre world, where time stands still and where the characters are entangled in absurd situations and become lost in a warped reality. Many of the concepts presented are paradoxical while the spatial specifications are always relative, thus creating chaos and confusion both for the unnamed main character and the readers. By analyzing examples from O’Brien’s novel, this paper, therefore, demonstrates that the ambivalence of this work stands as a parable for the absurdity of the human condition in the pursuit of secure knowledge. By drawing parallels with modern physics to illustrate the absurdity of epistemological pursuits, the novel reflects the skepticism of 20^th century society and the crisis of authority.

Censorship through Sensitivity Editing. The Case of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and The Chocolate Factory

2025-07-28T10:03:34+02:00

Roald Dahl has always been lambasted for his depiction of violence, racism, and sexism in his children’s books. These issues coupled with Dahl’s antisemitic attitude and mean-spiritedness have raised concerns about the books’ suitability for young readers. Consequently, Dahl’s books have been frequently censored for various reasons. Despite this, his works have been venerated and beloved by generations, becoming one of the most successful children’s authors. Thus, this article will focus on the censorship imposed on Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) since it has become a notorious example of public outrage due to its sensitivity editing. To analise the changes introduced in this children’s classic, a methodological approach based on the editorial decisions’ typology is used as the framework for my study. The results show that the sensitivity editing fails to address the underlying issues within the text, as the changes are largely superficial and, at times, inconsistent.

Pre/Post-Brexit Narratives: Reflections of the Use of Mass Media and Social Networks to Spread Political Discourses and Manipulate Public Opinion

2025-02-11T10:34:21+01:00

This paper focuses on analysing the narratological mechanisms and tools used to express criticism of political discourses and the manipulation of public opinion latent in today’s society. In the works studied here, we will see how the sociological and cultural consequences of political actions in contemporary English fiction are exhibited through the use of various narrative strategies, such as satire, irony, the grotesque, and elements of science fiction. These narratives, in their severe criticism of the current socio-political context, do not have a moralizing purpose nor do they propose ways of improvement and progress, they simply manifest and criticize a culture that is already consumed and manipulated by social networks, the media and consumer society.

Romanticising the Suffragette: Historical Romances and the Commodification of the Cause

2025-01-02T10:15:29+01:00

In this article, I discuss three historical romance novels, Katie MacAlister’s Suffragette in the City (2011), Courtney Milan’s The Suffragette Scandal (2014), and Evie Dunmore’s A Rogue of One’s Own (2020). Based on their similar traits regarding characterisation, plot, and outcome, these works can be said to form a specific subgenre of historical romance, for which I propose the label “Suffragette Historical Romances” (Author 2024). I first explore these romances departing from the recurrent narrative conventions Pamela Regis (2003) associates with the genre, the most distinguishable of which is what she defines as the “barrier”: what prevents the union between hero and heroine (14). What makes these novels unique, I argue, is they present the protagonist’s role as a suffragist or suffragette as the obstacle to the happy resolution of the love story. Consequently, the happy ending can only arrive when the heroine decides to renounce her activism. I, then, focus on how these romances are impregnated by the “postfeminist sensibility” Rosalind Gill ascribes to postfeminist narratives (2007) as they paradoxically illustrate the simultaneous incorporation and repudiation of feminist values. I ultimately argue the suffrage campaign serves here to promote a postfeminist ideology according to which feminism has succeeded and, thus, is presented as important, yet no longer relevant.

The notarial documentation of the Monastery of Sahagún (1261-1280): a lexicological approach to the study of legal and economic terms

2025-02-23T21:48:19+01:00

We have delved into the Documentary Corpus of the Monastery of Sahagún (CODOMOSA) to conduct a lexicological analysis of certain terms found in 16 texts (1261-1280), all belonging to the legal-economic domain. Specifically, we will examine the following five terms: alboroque, infurción coto, encotar and delejar. Trough them, we aim to advance in the study of the Romance variety used in the Sahagunian notarial documentation of the second half of the 13th century, a documentary collection particularly significant due to the confluence of Castilian with other Romance influences, such as Leonese. In these regard, we emphasize the linguistic value of CODOMOSA, a corpus that has revealed, both formally and semantically, the presence of certain terms and linguistic features that could be considered distinctive of Leonese notarial documentation in contrast to what is found in contemporary Castilian notarial documentation

In pictura poesis… A Latin Epigram on behalf of Eguiara y Eguren in his Posthumous Portrait

2025-04-09T21:22:41+02:00

This contribution has the purpose of rescuing and studying a Neo-Latin epigram honoring Eguiara y Eguren (the renowned 18th-century Mexican scholar) which, despite being in plain sight, has gone unnoticed due to being «hidden» in an apparently unrelated medium for poetry: the portrait painted by an anonymous artist after his death, now housed in the National Museum of the Viceroyalty (Tepotzotlán, México).

An algorithm to identify the pronominal systems of the Romance Languages according to the number of tonic forms per paradigm

2025-02-28T18:24:48+01:00

Two properties keep the personal pronouns of the Romance Languages apart from their Latin counterparts. On the one hand, every Romance Language has a series of clitics morphologically independent from their tonic pairs. On the other hand, the personal pronouns of the Romance Languages reach the last stages of a drift that leads to the complete syncretism of most of their paradigms. An indispensable tool to compare the pronominal systems of any of the Romance Languages is their paradigmatic index, which is the number of tonic forms per paradigm. To identify the type of every Romance variety, a combination of the first four grammatical persons is necessary. In this paper we study the margins of variation of the pronominal systems of the Romance Languages as a play which is all about finding the right algorithm able to recognize all the main types of system for any Romance variety with the fewest possible questions about the paradigmatic indices of their grammatical persons.

Spanish Golden Age in Foreign Romanticism: International Press and Golden Literature

2025-07-31T09:47:45+02:00

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Labeling, Delimitation and Conceptualization of the “Siglo de Oro” in the German Press between 1800 and 1868

2025-05-20T09:24:30+02:00

The present paper offers a panoramic review of the frequency and use of the concept “Siglo de Oro” in the German Press between 1800 and 1868, in order to determine whether this media was a significant party in the consolidation of a “siglo de oro” as a periodological category and as nuclear instrument in the structuring of the Spanish literary canon. The review of the widest-reaching periodicals in German language during this time shows that, although the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries of the Spanish Literature are frequently characterised as a golden age, the use of this image is on the whole ambiguous, the considered time frame varies significantly among articles, is sometimes restricted to a genre, and is mostly used in a metaphoric or valorative sense, but not as a classifying concept. The lack of precision and systematisation implies this label did not adequately reflect the quality criteria shared by most German hispanists and readers: the presence of national character.

“As musas peninsulares nasceram irmãs”. Spanish Golden Age Literature in Portugal: Revista Peninsular (1855–56)

2025-05-20T09:23:44+02:00

The article analyzes the reception of Spanish Golden Age literature in nineteenth-century Portuguese press, focusing on the Revista Peninsular (1855–56) as a vehicle for the construction of a peninsular and/or national literary identity. The literary content of 24 issues published can be grouped into two main categories: on the one hand, nostalgia, often accompanied by a critique of the contemporary literary scene; on the other, critical studies of specific genres, which involve a journey through Peninsular literary history and contribute to the processes of canon formation and the construction of a shared literary imaginary. The pages of the Revista Peninsular, far from constructing a political Iberism, aim to shape a symbolic and affective Iberism, in which literature–especially Golden Age literature– acts as a mediating space between past and present, Spain and Portugal, memory and future projection.

Conceptualization of Spanish Golden Age in the British Press Prior to the Liberal Exile (1801-1823)

2025-07-03T10:36:56+02:00

This article analyzes the image of Spanish Golden Age showed by British serial press between 1801 and 1823. To this aim, attention will be paid at twenty different articles and reviews published in eight of the most relevant periodicals of the time and concerning authors, works or movements of Golden Age literature. First of all, I will tackle those articles concerning dramatic writing, most of them focused on Lope de Vega and Calderón de la Barca; then I will consider the estimation of Spanish Baroque prose, represented by Cervantes and the picaresque novel; finally, I will evaluate their opinions about lyrical tendencies, most of them critical towards the Italianate and the Gongoristic schools. Based on these texts, I will reflect on the conceptualization of Spanish Golden Age by British intellectuals, whose attitude –in the height of the Romantic eclosion– oscillated from an increasing European Hispanophilia to the reaffirmation of their own cultural hegemony.

The Spanish Golden Age, Cervantes and Calderón in Two Magazines of Independent Mexico: National Representations and Cultural Tensions

2025-05-09T17:11:54+02:00

This article examines the presence of the Golden Age tradition —especially Cervantes and Calderón— in two illustrated magazines published in Mexico City between 1843 and 1845: España Pintoresca, Artística, Monumental, Literaria y de Costumbres and El Museo Mexicano, ó Miscelánea Pintoresca de Amenidades Curiosas e Instructivas. It analyzes articles of literary criticism and biographical texts these publications construct around the Spanish canon as part of their respective cultural projects. While España Pintoresca, aimed at a Spanish or Hispanophile community, promotes the Golden Age as a symbol of shared national identity, El Museo Mexicano, led by intellectuals from the Academia de Letrán, reinterprets that legacy in pursuit of a distinctly Mexican literary narrative. The study shows how Cervantes and Calderón are mythified and emotionally charged figures from a transatlantic perspective. Their representations differ, however: from nostalgic praise in the Spanish press to ambivalence or rejection in the Mexican context, where pre-Hispanic heritage and French or English models are privileged. In both cases, the Golden Age operates as a symbolic axis in the construction of emotional communities and literary canon formation.