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El artículo aborda el vínculo entre conocimiento y poder en el siglo XVII, destacando la revolución científica y el surgimiento de la "Nueva Ciencia". Examina cómo las autoras inglesas de esa época enfrentaron la transformación científica y su conexión con el auge del empirismo y la Royal Society.

The aim of this paper is to study the poetic language of the Cantares de Dzitbalché. Despite its importance in the literary field, the texts contained in this Maya manuscript have received little interest from the rhetorical point of view. However, the use of parallelisms and other figures of semantic deepening make this work a masterful example of Maya poetry. Likewise, it is possible to observe in the texts an influence of the Hispanic tradition at the morphosyntactic and thematic level, which will also be analyzed and discussed throughout the work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite its apparent oblivion, Destierro (1930) has been considered by its author and by critics as a collection of poems that represented an inflexion point in the poetry of Jaime Torres Bodet. This paper analyzes Destierro (1930) through one of its main topics: the experience of dreaming. As it will be pointed out, rather than being lost in unconsciousness, dream is represented as a journey of a lucid sensibility looking for a new poetic expression that might communicate the spirit of modern life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the time when Spanish Crown was consolidating its presence in American lands through the dispatch of its royal officials, in his treaty Sobre justicia distributiva Friar Juan Zapata y Sandoval, who belonged to the Creole elite, supports the idea that men born in the New World should enjoy ecclesiastic benefits and secular trades in their republics by election, since he considers them worthy and with enough merits to be candidates. In this paper my aim is to research his actual position on these matters within the section "Acerca de la distribución de los oficios seculares" in the same treaty, to prove that Zapata could not really sustain his defense in favor of those men born in the New World. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to establish the problems of the Stoic concept of cognitive representation (καταληπτική φαντασία). So I intend to reconstruct the scholarly debate on this definition. For it, I state the debate around its two most conflictive terms: the participle ὑπάρχον and the preposition ἀπό. By analyzing the Stoic fragments in which these terms appear, I explore both textual and philosophical arguments in order to find the different senses of both. By doing so, my aim is highlighting the limits of those interpretations. My conclusion is proposing certain issues to constitute a research agenda on the Stoic definition of cognitive representation, in order to, to some extent, possible solutions might be discerned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While studying Polybius we cannot understand him without correlating his work with the history of the oikouménē, the wide world in which Mediterranean populations had reciprocal interactions within a complex network of political-cultural connections. Polybius intended to cover cultural realities that met and coexisted, since we know that The Histories were more than the mere narration of events relevant for the author, but constituted in a very overwhelming way a new methodology for History as a discipline that started a trend in Historiography. That is to say, Polybius reflected on his own time. In this paper we intend to meditate on those ideas about the past, present and future of the oikouménē from the historiographical position of Polybius. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the dialogue between Xerxes and Demaratus in book VII of Herodotus' Historiae. The dialogue argues in defense of the supremacy of nomos. That is why many scholars consider this passage as an echo of the discussion around the antithesis nomos-physis, in which the defense of the supremacy of nomos can be thought as influenced by the political thought of Protagoras of Abdera. This paper intends to show that Herodotus' discourse runs as an "act of intellectual intervention" within the debate of φύσις-νόμος during the fifth century B. C. However, we do not think about the Historian influenced by Protagoras, but as his particular reception within nomos-physis discussion, in which Herodotus' position is antagonic towards Protagoras. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The manuscript informally known as "Título del barrio de Santa Ana" was created in 1565 in San Cristóbal Verapaz, Guatemala. It is written in the Poqomchi' language (Mayan family, K'iche'ano subgroup) and relates some events during the first decades after the Dominican missionaries arrived. It is a title of ownership, a specific genre of indigenous documents that was elaborated in Mesoamerica with the purpose to obtain a tool to defend the historical rights over certain territories. This paper presents the main characteristics of the "Título del barrio de Santa Ana" and highlights its importance for historical and linguistic studies. Based on a comparative analysis with other indigenous documents written in the Highlands of Guatemala during the colonial period, it is argued that the "Título del barrio de Santa Ana" initiated the Maya-Poqomchi' literary tradition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to analyse the anthropomorphic figures of the Madrid Codex, through the perspective of Mayan visual culture, to understand the forms of representation of the human body and thereby approach the way of assuming the body by the Yucatecan Mayans of the Postclassic Period. The general features of anthropomorphic figures are pointed out, the modules used to build them are characterized and the information offered by linguistic and anthropological research on the subject is used. The body is a totality of interrelated parts, the body is the vehicle for knowledge, communication, and action; in the body both the individual identity and the community character of the human being are expressed, it is also possible to identify the cultural construction that gives predominance to the masculine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I will reflect on some examples of my activity as a translator guided by the following questions: since translations often broaden the boundaries of language, can we consider the contribution of translated texts to systematic language research? And further, is the meta-translational and metalinguistic reflection of translators important for the study of language? To answer these questions, I will consider the nature of translation and writing as twin operations, and after mentioning synthetically and essentially the theory that guides my translating decisions, I will dwell on some examples concerning the “creative” use of verbal tenses in my Spanish translations of Umberto Eco’s The Island of the Day Before (1995) and The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2005). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the reticence against the participation of women in intellectual spheres, several among them engaged actively in the debates around the New Science during the seventeenth century. Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) is one of the most singular figures of her time, in that she did not receive a formal education in philosophy, and yet, by means of a prolific and extravagant outpour, she experimented with a diversity of literary styles and placed her bets on the generic interbreeding of texts. Although Cavendish’s works have often been studied by dividing the creative and literary works from the philosophical ones, reading them side by side seems crucial to understand the role that fancy and poetic imagination plays in the development of her natural philosophy. This paper examines fragments from Poems and Fancies (1653) to assess the role of fancy and imagination in connection to the philosophical ideas of Cavendish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to draw a balance sheet of different approaches to the interpretation of Roman expansion to the East between 200 and 30 B.C. It was done mainly through wars against Macedon, Syria and Egypt. In order to accomplish this a short analysis is made of three ways of explaining this: that of Arthur Eckstein, called realist, that of Paul Burton, constructivist, and that of William Harris, who emphazises Rome's agresiveness, unmatched in those times. The conclusion is that, although not all of them are pro-Roman, they are made with an American perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper propose to illustrate through some biographical notes about Garcilaso de la Vega, the circumstances that led him know and imitate the classics Latin authors in his poetries. Among those who most enjoyed his imitation were Virgil, Horace and Ovid. How many imitations were found of these authors is specified, but the mentions of gods and mythological characters are multiple which made me, by way of conclusion, to complete by order alphabetic a list of them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we will attempt to analyze the reasons behind suicide and human self-sacrifice involving the salvation of polis in Euripides' fragmented tragedy Erechtheus, written in the last quarter of the 5th century B. C. It is our purpose to provide evidence of the complex perspective that the Athenian dramatist had on such topics, especially considering the display of his talents in a play that reveals the impossibility of reconciliating antagonistic visions on voluntary self-sacrifice. In that sense, we intend to present the existence of a conceptual problem, as well as pose questions concerning voluntary selfsacrifice which continue to linger beyond Ancient times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The passages of literacy criticism in Photius' Bibliotheca have been studied by segmenting their elements, which prevents discernment of the passage structure and the precise meaning of terms. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate, firstly, the existence of two- and three-element groups (binomials and trinomials) in Photius' passages and, secondly, the usefulness of these groups as interpretation tools. These goals will lead to a better understanding of not only the work's composition but the meaning of the text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses how Luis Felipe Fabre, in his novel Declaración de las canciones oscuras (Sexto Piso, 2019), represents Juan de Yepes Álvarez as a writer that was "suspicious of the language." In order to achieve this, both the documentation process supporting the novel as well as the in-depth analysis of the verses found in Noche oscura del alma --used by Fabre to write his poetic prose passages and fictional cutting which hold up the text: segments in which the narrator or characters denounce expressive impossibility, as happened to San Juan--are revised. Based on the constants of impossibility, ineffability, and silence as analytic guides, the present work analyzes several scenes of the novel, and in the final segment this paper concludes that the "mistrusting of language"--something that Fabre reclaims and resignifies from De la Cruz--is a symptom of how literature offers resistance to the lies and terror of our current contexts, even though Fabre in this work is talking about historical events as far away in time and as in place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On two pages of the Maya hieroglyphic manuscript known as the Madrid Codex are found vestiges of European paper. Visible on one of those fragments are handwritten words in Latin and Spanish. Scholars first proposed that the European paper had been incorporated into the substrate of the Maya codex during manufacture, and that the codex was a post-conquest creation. A re-analysis of the codex has shown, however, that the European paper became adhered to the codex after it was manufactured and painted. Another study has argued that it is a fragment of a Bull of the Santa Cruzada and that its presence helps to identify the approximate year and place when the Maya codex fell into the hands of Spanish friars. This article will show that argument is incorrect and that the European writing found in the Madrid Codex does not clarify the provenience of this important document. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a state of the matter on the scholarship about ethnic stereotypes in Ab urbe condita from the classic work by Walsh written in 1961 to nowadays. With this goal in mind, the paper is divided in five parts. The first part shows how the analyses of the subject matter became more complex as the ethnographic tradition with which Livy dealt, as well as the Roman identity and the notion itself of stereotype became an issue. In the second part, this article criticizes binary conceptions of otherness and suggests a wider gradation of it. The third part deals with some interesting observations made by Moore in 1989 that were later disregarded. In the fourth, it reviews Levene's suggestion based on ethnic identity studies that we should look for a non-Romancentric view within Livy's work. Finally, it studies the relevance of considering three kinds of contexts --the genre of the work, episodic and temporal frameworks-- while analyzing the ethnic stereotypes in Ab urbe condita. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent decades, heritage communities have become conservators and transmitters of assets that have been in danger of disappearing in recent decades, in which collective actions outside official institutions have managed to preserve their heritage in a helpless situation. This paper shows the development and the activities of the Uj-ja 'Síijo'ob Community Center in Canicab, Yucatán, since the opening in 2012 until nowadays. This project arises together with a group of volunteers, pretending to be a space for literacy for children and adults in the first instance, to end up being a space for dialogue open to the entire community, in which heritage and education are the two key axes. So it presents the value of heritage communities in preserving and transmitting the Mayan cultural heritage in Mexico. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The emergence of Maya writers bursts with original, novel, and transgressing proposals, within the contemporary political context of recognition of cultural rights and vindications from First Nations peoples. Such emergence has awakened a growing interest among diverse publics. Among them, literary critics stand at a special place, as many of them have tried to define such emergence and locate it as a particular category within the national or regional literary sphere. Contrary to that assimilationistic approach, this paper argues that through their literary works Maya writers are involved in a larger artistic indigenous movement that pursues not a place in the national literature, but that aims to question and redefine the hegemonic literary canon itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Cuceb is one of the most mysterious texts in the Books of Chilam Balam written during the early Colonial Period. Previous scholars have commented that it recounts a fictitious katun and contains events from different epochs ranging from the 13th to the 17th centuries. The text itself incorporates allusions of historical and mythological stories with origins from the Postclassic and Classic Periods. In this paper I will examine some expressions and key parts of the Cuceb. I propose that these passages interconnect with other texts in the Books of Chilam Balam and Paris codex, which together point to the collapse of Mayapan, the last capital of the Northern Yucatan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

His paper presents two logographic value proposals for main sign T667. The first proposed value is AY, which have an existential predicate semantics. The second proposed value is LAY, which have a proximal deictic semantics. These logographic value proposals are based both on the phonetic complementation patterns and on the syntactic and semantic analysis of the clauses represented in the hieroglyphic texts where T667 appears in the Dresden Codex (pages 65b-69b, 30c-31c and 29c-30c). For the first case, the complementation patterns seem to be spelling the word ayan, an existential with which locative constructions are formed. In the second case, the complementation patterns suggest that the word alay, a demonstrative pronoun that functions as the core of a predication, is spelled. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper lies on reviewing and questioning the topic of providence and fate among the Stoics according to the very few information transmitted by Diogenes Laertius in the Book 7 of his Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, so the brief reconstruction built by the Greek doxographer could be evaluated. Since Diogenes confirms his debt to previous authors at the time of summarizing Stoic thinking, not only through direct sources but indirect as well, it shall be possible to compare his data with other testimonies which Arnim (svf) and Boeri-Salles (bs) have brought together into their compilations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I examine which elements of the myth of Atalanta enabled its survival from Antiquity to the present day. I find in the classical period her figure was used to recall the role of women in society; the Renaissance, to warn about the danger of her nature and the need for her domination; and Modernity, to enunciate the resistance of subordinated alterity. Thus, through a comprehensive study of literary and iconographic versions and variants of the myth, I argue that the articulation between identity and alterity is a device for its transformation and survival. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Lucian's Assembly of the Gods, the god Momo regrets the degradation suffered by the oldest Olympian deities due to the changes introduced in the traditional religion, using such arguments just as Athenagoras in his Legatio when he defends Christianity. This paper analyses how the match between the reasoning between Lucian and the apologist evidences the crisis of religiosity in the second century A. D., as well as their condition of pepaideuménoi, despite the disparity of purposes between both authors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Even though the so called fornaldarsogur ('sagas of the ancient times') appeared in Christian Scandinavia during the 12th and 13th centuries, the fact is that the motifs and topics of the ancient Scandinavian myths and legends still play a major role in those literary works. In particular, the fate and the sword are given a prominent place in the Volsunga saga, especially with reference to the Volsungs' deeds and misfortunes. Hence, the aim of this paper is to elucidate to what extent the tale establishes a symbolic relationship between that weapon and the future of two of its main characters: Sigurðr and Brynhildr. After analysing how destiny works in the story, on the one hand, and what the familiar meaning of the Volsung sword is, on the other hand, it will be possible to conclude that the weapon symbolises the tragic and violent separation of the couple in the saga. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the Gran conquista de Ultramar, the lineage of Godfrey of Bouillon travels from the uncertain edges of the world to the centre of the empire and, finally, Jerusalem; and, in parallel, from the wonderful tale of folkloric roots to the chivalrous romance and the writing of history. This paper analyses the succession of spaces and narrative materials that the lineage journey connects, as well as the progressive logic that organizes this succession, considering that this articulation of spaces and narrative traditions (closely interwoven) and their progressively more accurate location is one of the procedures that contribute to integrate the estoria of the Caballero del Cisne within the larger story. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Juan de Mena is one of the most important Spanish poets of the 15th century. The eulogy dits "Presumir de vos loar", "Muy más clara que la luna" and "Guay de aquel hombre que mira" stand out among his lyrical dits. These poems are characterized by the praise of the lady's beauty and virtue, through the use of amplificatio resources, more specifically the collatio aperta. This paper deals with the very relationship between collatio and hyperbole. Ever since the previous century, researchers have been interested in the use of the hyperbole sacra in Mena's poetry; however, as will be seen, the hyperbole sacra is only one of the forms of this figure of thought, because Mena uses concepts from Greek mythology and even nature elements in the praise of the lady as well as the terminology from Christian iconography; furthermore he usually relies on comparison, collatio aperta, for his elaboration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to show how Mayan ethnicity, race and sexuality of online sex workers --who inhabit in Mérida, Yucatán-- are articulated. The sex workers observed --with brown skin, and of Mayan and Mayan-mestizo origin-- hide their faces for "discretion". Thus, sex workers are ethnoracialized by their Yucatecan or Mexican clients (and, to a lesser extent, by foreigners), as they are seen as hypersexual and childish; in their profile pictures they tend to appear naked and to show their penis, anus and chest; but only the thin and young ones can charge a fee of 700 or 800 pesos for the full service. Therefore, a Mayan sex worker who does not possess the aforementioned characteristics would probably have to offer anal sex without a condom in order to come close to the service fee of a brownskinned, thin, and young sex worker. This would seem to suggest that Mayan men are hypersexualized. This paper contributes to the understanding of the practices of contemporary Maya men's sexualities from an ethnohistorical-racial perspective by analyzing how they engage in "performative" sexual practices (virtual and physical), which in turn are racialized and gendered in order to attract and keep clients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studies on the Maya elite mention the existence of titles, objects, gestures, and attitudes that symbolized the status and power of an individual or a social group, which are represented in Classic Maya monuments and objects. This paper briefly discusses the conceptualization of this kind of symbols and based on the studies that have been developed on the subject, the main characteristics that these symbols had among the Mayas of the southern lowlands during the Late Classic period are presenested; this serves as a referential framework to evaluate the existence of social status indicators in the elite tombs explored in Yaxchilán between 1978 and 1985. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the spellings used in two vocabularies and three colonial Mayan grammars. The objective is to see if the missionaries were able to distinguish the Mayan sounds and if their representation is systematic. In order to achieve our objective, we have analyzed the vowel subsystem and its difficulties, as well as the consonant subsystem. We have been able to notice that vowel representation is difficult due to features such as pitch, while consonants are easier to identify. However, we have not recorded systematicity in the representation of either vowels (since the simple vowel can represent any type) or consonants, the latter using different representations for the sounds: digraphs , geminates, simple spellings ; moreover, it is difficult to explain the use of the spelling or <ç> for the Mayan alveolar fricative sound. Finally, we have been able to observe that in the representation we use spellings proper to the Latin alphabet and some used for the Spanish sounds <ç> and of the Sixteenth Century, in addition to the graphic innovation , which may have its origin in the Hebrew alephate and is also found in Mateo Aleman's Orthography (1609). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the contributions of Peruvian theorist and critic Antonio Cornejo Polar on narrative heterogeneity, this paper proposes an interpretation of Valeria Luiselli's most recent novel, Desierto sonoro (2019). In this text I postulate that, without undermining the explicit sources which the novel alludes to and recovers, it is possible to link it to a deeply rooted narrative tradition in Latin America: that which represents sociocultural otherness. The tensions between the referent (the Chiricahua tribes of the 19th century and the children who cross the border into the United States in the 21st century) and the narrative perspectives that present the events involve different displacements (of characters, knowledge, diegetic levels, and narrative points of view) oriented to the representation of a harmonious encounter between two opposing sociocultural groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the turbulent Europe of the World Wars, two French thinkers of Jewish Origin wrote both essays on the Iliad: Simone Weil (The Iliad, or the Poem of Force, 1940-1941) and Rachel Bespaloff (On the Iliad, 1943). Both writers have in common the return to the foundational texts of Western culture -- Homer in the Classical tradition and the Bible and the Gospels in the Christian tradition -- to rethink war and barbarism. This paper analyses the concept of 'force' in both authors, their similarities and differences, in order to conclude on the way in which this notion determines their interpretation of the Homeric poem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the Latin treatise De elogio, a manuscript allegedly written by Nicolás de Peza (1712-1777), a Jesuit from New Spain. Since it has not received practically any attention, I tackle its authorship, and then I analyze its structure, its content, the author's pedagogical intentions. As I will show, the treatise provides us with both technical and aesthetic parameters to assess the many examples of acumen in those elogia, which had huge success in 18th Century New Spain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to study the use of Greco-Roman myths in 19th Century Argentina by focusing on two outstanding authors for their way of approaching them from different perspectives and aesthetics. The former, Vicente López y Planes, in his work El triunfo argentino appeals to myth by following the classicist aesthetic characterized by the use of mythology as a convention. The latter, Olegario V. Andrade, immersed in Romanticism in his work Prometeo chooses this mythological character for being a transgressive hero. Besides, we must take into account the particular Spanish-American reality in which people fight for Independence from Spain, since they take France as a model, without realizing that while accepting its influence, they receive at the same time a new colonizing power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The object of this paper is to establish the meaning and relevance of recovering the contents of pagan religion practiced by ancient Roman Republic, as the basis of the civil lifestyle conceived by Machiavelli in his idea of a mixed republic, through Discourses on Livy, one of his most mature political works. Here we can determine that Machiavelli, while searching to establish a civil religion model, found that not all Roman tradition was equally useful to him. Thus, ruminations on Roman religious tradition by authors such as Cicero or Lucretius, enable him, on the one hand, to sharpen his critical thinking regarding to the role played by religious beliefs and practices as forms of domination achieved through manipulation of fear and superstition. On the other hand, through Roman history and tradition while following Titus Livy, he finds that such critical stances are the expression of the crisis of the Republic, lead towards a dead-end, weaken legitimate authority, cause turmoil, and culminate in tyranny. Consequently, within the narrative of the Paduan historian, Machiavelli finds the model he was seeking for, an instrumentum regni that brings together all levels of society, helps to recognize authority, legitimizes hierarchies, and educates both dominated people and dominators, civitas becoming the beginning and end of all things. By following the search undertaken by Machiavelli it is possible to understand his purpose, that is to say, to refine his criticism of the period's dominant religion: Christianity. Therefore, far from seeking a reestablishment of paganism (something that would have been absurd at the time), his goal was not to destroy or replace Christianity, but to reform and adapt it to the conditions and needs of the new concept of a mixed republic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article brings up to discussion the idea of translation as a cognitive work which creates transitivity relations among linguistic codes. This phenomenon will be analyzed from a double perspective: the act of translating and the transmission by Lucretius of Epicureanism in Latin. So several aspects of theory of translation will be presented which have been used by the authors of this paper in their new Spanish translation of De rerum natura (2020). Moreover, it will be demonstrated how Lucretius developed meaningful semiotic chains in the Epicurean tradition and a linguistic theory in which words build a structure according to Nature's order. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

My purpose in this paper is to analize the trilogy Lycurgeia of Aeschylus in order to provide an insight into the characterization of Dionysus in the tragic genre. The extant fragments describe his androgynous appearance and the effects of his arrival in Thracia. Other sources on the same myth will be included; particularly I will focus on Euripides' Bacchae, because of its links with the myth of Pentheus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper re-examines the expressions síis k‘ab (cold hand) and chokoj k‘ab (hot hand) frequently mentioned in ethnographic descriptions of the hot-cold system among the Mayan-speaking population of the Yucatán peninsula. Using a linguistic-cognitive approach that integrates contextual information, the internal structure and semantic content of the expressions under study are explored. The analysis of the data obtained during fieldwork in the eastern part of the state of Yuestudios catan allows us to draw two main conclusions: the first is that síis k‘ab and chokoj k‘ab constitute metonymies of the hand, and the second is that the metonymic use of this part of the body constitutes the basis of the metaphors k‘ulu‘ k‘ab (raccoon hand) and sayab k‘ab (spring hand), whose analysis complements the present study. In addition, the connection between the identified metonymies and metaphors and a set of activities that to this day play a fundamental role in the daily life of Maya communities is outlined. Thus, the study contributes to broaden our understanding of metonymic and metaphoric patterns and processes in Yucatec Maya as well as of the local hot-cold system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to explore and to analyze the set of formal elements that makes up the time of Wasabi by Alan Pauls. The topic of debt is here understood as our starting point. There are three debts: one extratextual and two purely economic (contracted within fiction). Our hypothesis is that the three debts, linked together, are not only paid fictionally with the child born at the end of the text (analogy between art and life); nor only with the monstrosity of the cyst (link between body and writing), but with time. Narcolepsies, those chronic sleep disorders are, well looked at, temporary coins through which fiction collects the debt that the writer contracts with it [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with El samurái de la Graflex, by Daniel Salinas Basave. The analysis focuses on the representation of a historical character of Japanese origin: Kingo Nonaka, whose figure represents the irruption of a culture that contrasts with the attitudes and ideosyncrasy of revolutionary Mexico. Non-aka concentrates elements that form the image of a Japan in transition towards modernity. Between meditation as a method for diving and fluency with a camera, Salinas Basave follows Nonaka in his wanderings and allows the reader to appreciate details of the history of the first half of the twentieth century from a perspective "alien" to the Mexican one, while building a space for reflection on writing and memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to dialogue with the preceding critic about the possible classification of Contemporáneos texts as avant-garde. Our proposal is that some of their poems can be classified as avant-garde if we understand the avant-garde as a 20th century art paradigm and not only as a historical category during the beginning of the century. For this purpose, in the first place, the dichotomy "threshold aesthetics / dilation aesthetics" is proposed to explain two avant-garde poetic modalities, starting from the expression "threshold aesthetics," coined by Luciana Del Gizzo (2017). Secondly, the "aesthetics of dilation" is applied in the poetic Contemporáneos texts in contrast to the threshold aesthetics of stridentism or muralism, in the Mexican context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides a brief historical overview on the genesis of a Virgilian locus criticus (Ecl., 4, 62), comments on some aspects of its philological discussion from Antiquity to the 21st century, and contributes some elements concerning the reading offered by the codices vetustissimi of the direct tradition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Morocoy Community Museum (Quintana Roo, Mexico) is a cultural spot since 2015. The goal of this paper is to develop a visitor's study, analyzing its function as a means of cultural and educational socialization through the record book and its written mentions about the museum, from January 2019 to January 2020, with 306 individual registers including sex, place of origin and opinions. Crosstab tabulations, hypothesis tests, and logistic regression were performed to compare the characteristics of the visitors categorized by sex, procedence, and five categories of opinions. The main results have shown that locals see the museum as an important space for the knowledge of their historical and cultural heritage, meanwhile foreigners have shown more interest about museum exhibition, and the documentation presented there. There is not a statistical difference in the assistance between sexes. The final reflection is about the importance to develop an institutional policy, from the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, to support the logistic of creation of these kind of museums, in view of the interest to create them along the route of the Maya Train system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we will consider the administration of the community goods of Yucatecan towns during Colonial period. As an example, we analyze the community goods of Izamal, through the "Matricula y cuenta de comunidad de los indios de la cabecera y pueblo de Izamal de 1795", a document located in the Archivo General de la Nacion of Mexico. "The Matricula y cuenta" is, along with Buczotz and Pixila (previous documents in the same record), the only ones of its kind that we have found for the Yucatecan towns of the eighteenth century. Finally, we propose that the Izamal neighborhoods corresponded to the guild farms sold a few years before by the bishop fray Luis Piña y Mazo. As they were also part of the community goods, the farms were deliberately concealed by local authorities to avoid their dispossession and to preserve the bonds of community reciprocity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to describe the horizon of expectations concerning praise or eulogy as a literary subgenre in New Spain's 18th century. I tackle its background in European Renaissance, its affiliation with the rhetorical tradition of acumen or acuity, its inclusion in the university practices of New Spain and the controversy that arose because of that. Although not all intellectuals from New Spain decided to add acumen to university eulogies, the tradition of doing so prevailed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After Plutus's recovery of his eyesight and the subsequent redistribution of wealth, an old woman, probably a hetaira, is suddenly abandoned by her young lover, who is now financially solvent and in no more need of her (Aristophanes' Plutus, ll. 959-1096). The expression of her complaints --in front of Chremylus, the comic hero, and also of the young man, who approaches the hero's house in order to express his gratitude to the god-- results in an episodic scene devoted to the exposition of material precariousness of her decayed body. Behind this comic denigration, usual against old and ugly persons, there are also exposed various forms of body apprehension very subtly, on which this paper intends to explore. We refer to the affective and sensitive construction of corporality, to the dynamics of body language, to the physiological imprint of immateriality (such as pleasure or pain), among several aspects that prove the author's special interest in the body. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]