Literature, Romance

Article Literature, Romance

Myth-Busters: Women Writers and the Myths of Modern Male Individualism in Early Twentieth-Century Spain

Thomas Antorino

Summary: This study examines how Blanca de los Rios and Margarita Nelken reinterpret the figures of Don Quixote, Don Juan and others, considering them as emblematic of male understanding of modernity, and reveals the gender discrimination in contemporary myths about modern individualism.

BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES (2022)

Article Literature, Romance

Reading Garcilaso's Love Sonnets in the Anotaciones: Relevance Theory and the Poetics of Failure

C. A. R. L. O. S. IGLESIAS-CRESPO

Summary: This article applies Relevance Theory to examine the commentarial strategies used by Fernando de Herrera in the Anotaciones to shape the reader's engagement with Garcilaso's love sonnets, and concludes that Herrera's use of inferential protraction results in an interpretive model that portrays Garcilaso's love lyric as a poetics of failure.

BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES (2022)

Article Literature, Romance

On the margins of the nation: imaginary geographies in Hurricane Season (2017) by Fernanda Melchor

Rafael Lemus

Summary: This article examines the imaginary geography depicted by Fernanda Melchor in her novel "Temporada de huracanes" (2017), focusing on the precarious rural town of La Matosa. La Matosa, situated in an indeterminate location in the Mexican state of Veracruz, surrounded by mangrove swamps and sugar mills, serves as a literary representation of the violence in contemporary Mexico, challenging the discourses that seek to explain such violence as well as the historical development of Mexico.

BULLETIN OF HISPANIC STUDIES (2022)

Article Language & Linguistics

The Baladros of Burgos (1498) and Seville (1535) face to face: their idiosyncrasy and that of their model

Paloma Gracia

Summary: This article compares the two Spanish versions of "The Baladro del sabio Merlin" with its French model, in order to explore the nature of the Spanish versions.

REVISTA DE FILOLOGIA ESPANOLA (2022)

Book Review Literature, Romance

Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

N. I. C. K. NESBITT

FRENCH STUDIES (2022)

Article Literature, Romance

The majestic virtues of writing in Aurelia by Gerard de Nerval

Abderrahim El Bahi

Summary: This study critically explores the significance and role of writing, as well as its psychological compensation and liberation effects on the author, through a reading of Aurelia. It reveals that pain not only constitutes the work, but also acquires a symbolically subversive status.

ROMANICA OLOMUCENSIA (2022)

Article Language & Linguistics

Da Milano a Londra. Paolo Valera tra reportage, giornalismo e letteratura

Arianna Mazzola

Summary: This essay redefines Paolo Valera's relationship with the Democratic Scapigliatura and proposes the strong influence of French Naturalism on the author. Furthermore, the analysis focuses on the form of narrative reporting and journalistic writing, tracing, through analogies and differences, a study of the literary genre and the hybridization between description, narration, and invention that anticipates trends in writing following the publication of "I miei dieci anni all'estero".

FORUM ITALICUM (2023)

Article Literature, Romance

Rousseau on the Ile Saint-Pierre Realism as Circumscription

Celia Abele

Summary: This essay argues that the common interpretation of late Rousseau as being isolated in nature has led to misunderstandings of the text "Reveries of a Solitary Walker" as solely solipsistic. By analyzing the fifth promenade of the text, the author demonstrates that it actually exemplifies early literary realism by describing both society and nature. The inclusion of details about the natural and social environment highlights the deep connection between science and realism.

ROMANIC REVIEW (2022)

Article Language & Linguistics

ibi-ibidem in La Grant Cronica de Espanya (1385). Formal variants, semantic change and discourse functions

Johan Gille, Jose Ma Enguita Utrilla

Summary: This study examines the meaning and functions of pronominal adverbs in Old Aragonese, specifically focusing on their occurrences in the Grant Cronica de Espanya text.

REVISTA DE FILOLOGIA ESPANOLA (2022)

Article Literature, Romance

A BURST OF ONLY CHILDREN: ANDRES NEUMAN'S UNA VEZ ARGENTINA (2003), ALEJANDRO ZAMBRA'S FORMAS DE VOLVER A CASA (2011) AND ALEJANDRA COSTAMAGNA'S EL SISTEMA DEL TACTO (2018)

Catalina Olea

Summary: This article explores the significance of personal and family past in the 21st century narratives of Chilean and Argentinean literature, and examines the possibilities of opening up the future. By analyzing three novels, the author finds diverse narrative styles and themes that reflect different values and types of memory.

ANALES DE LITERATURA CHILENA (2022)

Article Literature, Romance

David perseguido y montes de Gelboe. Stylometric Innovations in Face of Dubious Attribution.

Elena Martinez Carro

Summary: Compared to the vast number of dramas created in the Spanish Golden Age, the corpus of biblical plays is very limited. Some of these plays have questionable authorship, such as David perseguido y montes de Gelboe, initially attributed to Lope de Vega. Stylometric analysis suggests a potential authorship by Antonio Martinez de Meneses, known for his work in the Calderon cycle, due to similarities in lexicon, style, and versification.

ANUARIO LOPE DE VEGA-TEXTO LITERATURA CULTURA (2022)

Article Literature, Romance

LOPE DE VEGA REALLY DID EMBARK ON THE SPANISH ARMADA

Geoffrey Parker

ANUARIO LOPE DE VEGA-TEXTO LITERATURA CULTURA (2022)

Article Humanities, Multidisciplinary

Queer Bandits and Partisans: Reimagining Male Homosexuality in Early Post-War Italy

Davis Richardson

Summary: Despite state-sanctioned antipathy, queer content began to proliferate in Italian art during the mid-to-late 1940s. Representations of homosexual characters were challenged as falling into a paradigm of fascists-criminals-paedophiles, with Italian artists utilizing multiple strategies to provide more realistic depictions of homosexual men. This essay contributes to a cultural history of homosexuality in Italy by elaborating on two tropes - cruising and egalitarian relationship structures.

ITALIAN STUDIES (2022)

Article Literature, Romance

New Pieces of titulos de comedias. From Calderon to Clandestine Satire (First part)

Ignacio Arellano

Summary: This article provides an overview of the state of the question regarding texts de titulos de comedias, a popular literary paradigm in the 17th and early 18th centuries. It also includes the publication of nine previously unpublished works (romantic and satirical) from various manuscripts in the National Library of Spain.

HIPOGRIFO-REVISTA DE LITERATURA Y CULTURA DEL SIGLO DE ORO (2022)

Article Literature, Romance

The Attire of the Crown Princes at the Loyalty Oath of the Courts of Castile (16th and 17th centuries)

Jose Antonio Fernandez Fernandez

Summary: This study examines the outfits worn by the princes of Asturias during the oath of allegiance ceremonies, which were grand events during the House of Austria's reign. The introduction of Burgundian etiquette and elaborate apparel upheld the royal family's greatness. Through this study, lesser-known aspects of these solemn ceremonies are spotlighted.

HIPOGRIFO-REVISTA DE LITERATURA Y CULTURA DEL SIGLO DE ORO (2022)

Article Literature, Romance

JULES VERNE'S WORKS AROUND THE WORLD: AN ANALYSIS OF THE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF EDITORS PIERRE-JULES HETZEL AND BAPTISTE-LOUIS GARNIER

Valeria Cristina Bezerra

Summary: This article aims to track the international impact of Jules Verne, a major author in world literature, through analyzing the work of editors and identifying the status the author acquired in France and Brazil as a result of publisher initiatives.

ALEA-ESTUDOS NEOLATINOS (2022)

Editorial Material Literature, Romance

Post-Racial Paradox

Audrey Brunetaux, Lam-Thao Nguyen, Roger Celestin, Eliane DalMolin

CONTEMPORARY FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE STUDIES (2022)

Article Literature, Romance

Filiation and chronology of some variants of Quevedo's El Buscon

Bienvenido Morros Mestres

Summary: This passage discusses the final version of Quevedo's novel and the question of whether the strange changes introduced were made by the author himself or by someone else.

PERINOLA-REVISTA DE INVESTIGACION QUEVEDIANA (2022)

Editorial Material Literature, Romance

Introduction Theorizing Education in the Global Hispanophone

Anna Kathryn Kendrick, Parker Lawson

BULLETIN OF HISPANIC STUDIES (2023)

Article Literature, Romance

Artaud's Plague Theatre: Catharsis as Performance

Maxime Philippe

Summary: In "The Theatre and the Plague," Antonin Artaud compares theatre to a plague and reexamines the concept of catharsis. This essay marks his early intervention in psychoanalysis, highlighting the psychological effects of epidemics and revealing overlooked medical truths. It opens up new possibilities for performance beyond traditional settings, such as body art.

CONTEMPORARY FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE STUDIES (2022)