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This paper aims to show the presence of thematic ordering in Spanish teaching materials in the United States, the construction of a textual series and its evolution over time, and the contribution of teachers, lexicographers, and grammarians to the history of linguistics. The vocabularies ordered by designative domains composed by Nicolas Gouin Dufief, by Edward Barry, by F. F. Moritz Foerster, by the author of ¿Habla Vm. Español?, by Luis Felipe Mantilla, by Antonio Ramos Díaz de Villegas and by Alfred Ronald Conkling constitute an interesting contribution to the history of Spanish in the US that has yet to be made. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to its encyclopedic nature, the Tesoro de la lengua castellana offers a good sample of the state of the various disciplines at the time of its writing. In this paper, we will systematically study how rhetorical matter is dealt with in Covarrubias’ work and how this treatment corresponds to the state of the art in the early 17th century. In this study we observe how the process of poeticization of rhetoric is evident in the special attention that Covarrubias dedicates to the elocutio, and we focus on Covarrubias’s sources, in order to show that – apart from being the classic Latin ones (mainly Cicero and Quintilian) – they are often mediated by the work of Ambrosio Calepino, as other scholars had already detected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

According Maingueneau (2004; 2017), writers exist within the literary discourse, which invariably occupies a paratopic space. Despite being part of society, they occupy a special status that sets them apart from the rest of the elements of the social space. This distinctiveness is especially connoted in the case of women writers, principally in the theatre due to the immediacy of the scene. The primary objective of this paper is to analyze how female playwrights, such as Marina Otero in Love Me (2022) and Bibiana Monje in Lacura (2017), portray themselves in autofictional drama plays, with fully aware of their paratopic position. They not only include episodes of their lives in the diegesis, but also, they use this opportunity to articulate critical discourses against different social problems, such as misogyny. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyze the place that Cristina Fernández Cubas occupies in the Spanish artistic field. Through the character of the writer, it focuses on the tensions between female writing and literary institution that several of her stories stage. To this end, I rely on the concept of «paratopy» («paratopie»), developed by Dominique Maingueneau (2004), which alludes the author’s paradoxical place respect to social space, positioned simultaneously inside and outside of it. The variety of paratopic representations reveals an evolution in the authorship of Fernández Cubas: from her earliest fantastic stories, where the protagonists manifest the «anxiety of creation» (Planté 2019, 137), to the latest ones, where the non-realistic is combined with the autofictional, and the authorization of the writer – legitimized by the literary institution – is inversely proportional to her visibility as a female subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes and explains the transformations in Biblical interpretation since the mid-20th century by means of the Habermasian category of the Post-secular. After proposing a possible definition of post-secular readings as distinct from both the religious and the secular ones, the article substantiates the claim that a Postsecular hermeneutics avant la lettre preceded not only Habermas's elaboration of that concept but also the reawakening of religious phenomena in current multicultural societies in a global context. In order to spell out these early instances of a Postsecular spirit, the Biblical studies by three relevant contemporary authors have been selected: scholar Luis Alonso Schökel; literary critic and theorist Harold Bloom, and philosopher Paul Ricoeur. The results of my analysis hint to the conclusion that some practitioners of this Post-secular hermeneutics were aware of being at the start of something new. In Paul Ricoeur's case, this leads to the development of a new concept, post-criticism, synonymous and forerunner to the current Habermasian concept. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper has two objectives: to analyse the mode of quantification of the prefixes, and to explain why only indefinite prefixes and universal ones can be degree modifiers. These prefixes can quantify the number of entities the base expresses (multitarea 'multi-task'), the argument of the base (multiadicción 'multi-addiction'), or the number of times a reality or condition takes place (bicampeón 'bi-champion'). Furthermore, indefinite prefixes and universal ones constitute scales, understood as gradable series with opposite poles, which makes them to function as degree modifiers (pluripoblado 'pluri-populated, very populated', omniconocido 'omni-known, well-known'). On the contrary, numeral prefixes establish ranks or non-gradable and unbounded series, a fact that disqualifies them as degree modifiers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El caballero de Erlaiz is one of the novels by Pío Baroja that have been most neglected. Written after his return from exile in Paris during the Spanish war, it contains an embarrassing incursion in the 18th century and the War of the Pyrenees, that is, in events more distant than the ones he had usually written about in trilogies like La selva oscura, pieces such as Zalacaín el aventurero or the series Memorias de un hombre de acción, which deal with the 19th and the 20th centuries. In this paper I suggest that below this journey in History Baroja was not only praising the spirit of the Enlightenment but also developing a criticism of the present, through a reconsideration of History and the genre of historical novel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article establishes the need to develop new University disciplines to increase the creativity based on critical experiences (personal and literary). A definition for «the writer's voice» is proposed. The writer's voice comprehends selfknowledge, a way of perceiving reality and the arts, and, at the same time, it is the creative writing's driving force. The second part of the paper consists of a description of the Creative Writing Master at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, through several examples of literary exercises and teaching methods to stimulate and strengthen each student's voice. This proposal finds itself integrated into the renovation of teaching Humanities in the middle of the so-called Artificial Intelligence era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the article is to analyse the methodology proposed by Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault to study ancient spirituality and its inheritance in modern and contemporary culture. This methodology, according to the hypothesis explored in the paper, attributes a key role to philology or the art of reading well, which leads them both to elaborate a critical and retroactive hermeneutics, especially fruitful when it comes to understanding the different emergences of spirituality in the history of Western culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]