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While arguing a strong defense of the humanities, this paper highlights its spirit and makes clear some misunderstandings and errors regarding the humanities. Nonetheless, a history of the humanities is left aside, here. Quite ion the contrary, this paper claims that capitalism is the main detractor and enemy of the humanities; not the contradictors and opponents of the free market system. A number of arguments and justifications are provided. The humanities basically consist in reaching a voice of its own. Several arguments make clear what this consists of. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we aim to explore the interconnection between Children's Literature and contemporary technologies, though not from the perspective of technology as a didactic tool or as a media to produce or reproduce literary texts. Instead, we examine how technology is present in books for children and picture books. This approach is based on the concepts of children's literature, and childhood and technologies. We also present an initial corpus of stories and picture books either about technology or in which technology structures the book or the narrative. Our conclusion is that in some texts the encounter of both worlds produces significant literary experiences. However, there is a literary core that cannot be integrated with technology. This tension is also part of the cultural representations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This investigation is centered on two objectives: one is to determine whether in Tomelloso, which from 1950 onwards was characterised as being a city linked to literature, this activity is still relevant in the distribution of its spare time. The second objective is to verify whether this city is still a place from which new writers regularly emerge. In addition, this paper aims to provide a sociological explanation of this social phenomenon. Methodological triangulation was used, with qualitative exploratory interviews, surveys, and the management of the bibliography and documentary archives. It is confirmed that there is still a major link to literature in Tomelloso and that writers are still continuously emerging. The phenomenon is explained by relating it to the theories of symbolic interactionism and Robert K. Merton's concept of self-fulfilling prophecies. [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]

Recent attention to character formation as the key to moral education has also regarded personal and fictional role models as appropriate means to this end. Moreover, while one may have grave reservations about the influence of personal role-models (perhaps upon the young by those they happen to admire), serious fiction has often been considered an inspirational source of moral example. Still, while this paper ultimately mounts a defence of the moral educational potential of literature, it is also concerned to press two significant reservations about any and all attention to fictional character as a means to such education. First, since the ultimate meaning of any fictional character and conduct is largely, if not exclusively, confined to their narrative contexts, we should not suppose them to have any direct role-modelling application to the affairs of human life beyond such contexts. Second, and more significantly, since morality is also ultimately more than and/or not entirely reducible to the contingencies of human character, attention to either fictional or real-life character must anyway fall somewhat short of full moral education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents an argument about the reasons for the exclusion of Spanish women and their literary production in relation with the rest of the Group of '27 literary canon. In order to evidence the marginalization of these authors and demonstrate their absence in the cultural Spanish landscape, the article begins with an explanation of the historical and sociopolitical context of Spain during the early decades of the 20th century. Afterward, this paper presents a conceptualization of literary canon as a starting point to approach the polemic associated with the --commonly referred to as-- Generation of '27 as well as the configuration of poetry as a characteristic genre in comparison to the other literary work, and the role that critics and history played in the conformation of the canon of the '27 movement. Finally, it is concluded that women were not part of the modernization attempts in Spain at the beginning of the 20th century for different reasons: relegation of them to the domestic sphere, the high representation of men in the Group of '27, the significant role of anthologies and magazines in shaping the canon, and the repression caused by the dictatorship of the Franco regime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through the content analysis of the tale Caperucita se come al lobo [Little Red Riding Hood eats the wolf], this paper aims to analyze the tensions between the sociocultural discursive and the unconscious that emerge in the erotic-affective experiences of women. Three major categories were identified in the text's narrative: 1. Feminism as a legitimizing code for women's actions in contemporaneity. 2. The young woman is represented as sexually active, desiring, and affectively detached. 3. The desire for love as an unconscious expression that defies the collective discourses, making the erotic-affective experience a singular one. These three tendencies that emerged in the analysis are interpreted in the light of psychoanalytic and psychosocial perspectives. They show that every epoch creates discourses that guide daily practices by constructing ideals that, despite their normative force, are impossible to embody because of the unconscious. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a synthesis of the doctoral thesis in Literature Alcira Soust Scaffo and the Papers (Pagano Artigas, 2023), carried out at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, in the Postgraduate Program in Literature of the Center for Communication and Expression. The thesis is an investigation framed within the field of problems that contemplate the theoretical and critical spaces where knowledge from psychoanalysis and literature intersect. To do this, an epistemological position was adopted that inhabits this border and allows for dialogue between these knowledges, the foundation and driving force of the doctoral research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the concept of exploitation as it has been used by the non-Maxist literature, i.e. as a concept whose object is particular transactions rather than structures. The paper exposes and evaluates the different conceptualisations of exploitation that the literature has offered, with sweatshop labour as the main contrasting case. It is argued that despite offering competitive conditions, sweatshop labour is exploitative because firms neglect the unsatisfied needs of workers and can improve them without detriment to their survival. This duty to improve workers conditions is based on the existence of duties of distributive justice, duties which, however, we do not have in all cases. It is argued that only a pluralistic conceptualisation of exploitation, offering different standards depending on the type of case at hand, makes sense of our intuitions and at the same time is consistent with our institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Once has been completed the algorithmization that gives rise to the definitive passage of the disciplinary societies to the control societies, we are transiting post-control paths of a serial nature. We would like to see the manifestation of such a transit in the serial production of academic papers, in the context of the loss of expressive force and governance of platforms such as Law and Literature, and the emergence of new expressive government platforms such as Netflix or Spotify. We also try to offer alternatives for writing and government to those of the serial society, starting from the notion of "prose of thought" by Miguel Morey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the readers of Ramon Llull in the 17th century, through an analysis of references and allusions in printed texts in Spanish. A classification scheme of the main themes is proposed, and significant examples of texts ranging from literature to theology, including alchemy and medicine are studied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyse Napoleon Bonaparte's 1798 Egyptian Campaign from the perspective of the imitatio Alexandri, through the direct testimonies of some of the participants in the military and cultural enterprise led by the young French general and by comparing various episodes of the expedition and of the French presence in Egypt with the figure of Alexander the Great. It also attempts to show that this imitatio Alexandri is not just a convention, common in the literature in the field when studying ancient models for Bonaparte, but that, even at the time of the campaign, the French were convinced that their commanding general intended to emulate the Macedonian legend in Egypt and Asia, according to his actions and declarations. The sources studied include the correspondence of the Egyptian expedition, as well as the memoirs of some of the participants, including Napoleon himself, and other close associates. The analysis shows that, both in the evocation of the historical model and in the development of specific events, in the Egyptian Campaign we can indeed observe signs of imitatio Alexandri, but also of rivalry and the overcoming of Alexander's model: hence, of an aemulatio Alexandri. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper enriches theoretical concepts (such as transitional objects, the objective correlate and deautomatization procedures) with personal experiences from cultural promotion work with children. This public is considered as agents trained to build knowledge, the teacher as a mediator or facilitator of learning, and the book as a meeting point that requires approximations according to the current era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper interprets a short passage by Heidegger on the difference between literature and poetry and, especially, on the "unfathomable essential power" of literature. We will argue what the phenomenological features of this "power" of literature that distinguishes it from poetry, showing the internal problematicity of such a distinction. In order to foreground the meaning of this "unfathomable essential power" of literature, a brief reading of Don Quixote's El curioso impertinente will be made. The conclusion is that the "unfathomable" power of literature lies in its ambivalence to be a means of homologation and resistance to that same homologation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este artículo se inserta en el campo de los estudios de la poesía oral, más específicamente el de las competencias de poetry slam, tomando como caso el Slam Coalkan, primer evento indígena a nivel mundial en ese formato, realizado en 2021 a través de una colaboración entre festivales de Brasil y Canadá, que reunió poetas de los hemisferios sur y norte de Abya Yala. A partir de una observación crítica, este estudio describe y analiza dicho campeonato, enfatizando la importancia de la oralidad para las culturas de los pueblos originarios, la cual es la protagonista en un contexto como el de los poetry slams. Anclado en referencias teóricas sobre literatura indígena, el estudio pretende resaltar la necesidad de una atenta escucha a las voces de esos sujetos históricamente silenciados y marginados que ponen de relieve saberes ancestrales en sus narrativas de lucha, emancipación y resistencia. Además, al divulgar este acontecimiento inédito, el artículo hace de su objetivo valorar y defender la legitimidad de la poesía que se produce y circula en los slams. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wiñay Mallki and Hugo Jamioy Juagibioy's poetry allows us to understand some socio-political dimensions of the indigenous literature that is recognized as palabras mayores (ancestral words). The purpose of this article is to contribute to the knowledge of their works starting with a historical overview of the Colombian Southwest to shed a light on the common intentions as well as the encounters of these two poets, from the Yanakuna and Camëntsá people. The text has a bioethnographic approach to the two indigenous authors to establish the relationship of their works with the political and ancestral struggle waged by their indigenous communities. This paper showcases the decolonizing power of the poetries of the two creators from Cauca and Putumayo for the Colombian literary field. Finally, it is important to us to support the opinion of indigenous literatures as oralituras or major words of the native people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We consider humanism, more than a current of thought, as a way of seeing reality, a perspective that considers human dignity as the ultimate criterion of evaluations and norms; and as the horizont to wich actions should be oriented. The objective of this work was to collect and analyze our experience of applying the Humanities in teaching of Medicine, within the subject of Neurology with Medicine students and Neuropediatrics in the specialty in pediatrics; and show what the contributions have been when using disciplines such Literature, Narrative and Visual art; by analyzing the results of the following published research papers: 1) From Discourse to Practice; The Perception of Undergraduate Medicine Students about their Clinical Training; and 2) Humanities in Neuropediatrics. Results of an experience in the training of pediatricians. A qualitative methodology was used to analyze the results of both works; in addition, for the development of theme of Art in the second of these. Regarding the use of literary texts or artistic media in medical education, we consider that they are useful tools to understand the human dimension of the patient, essential in clinical practice and the doctor-patient relationship; and to understand more critically their own experience, as well as that of their patients in the attention and care of their health. A medical education with values and ethics is required. For this, it is necessary to recognize and attend to a series of critical conditions since the students enter the Medicine career and later in the specialty of Pediatrics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By means of an interpretative documentary revision, the paper posits that in Hector Abad Faciolince's Angosta there is a narrative of realism as that which is convenient to the strongest. The relation between narrative and justice in recent academic production is explored; the concept of the just when faced with Angosta narrative is exposed; the novel as a fictional narrative space between fiction and representation of realism is proposed; as a conclusion, it is stated that the novel's plotting takes advantage of the tensions and tragedies of realism and, at the same time, suggests an aesthetic vindication of a different yet unlikely justice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper looks at the literary map of Tangier in the novel El año que viene en Tánger, by Tangier-born writer Ramón Buenaventura (1940), in order to analyze how his work is built, apparently, around two axes, memory and sex, which come together, in turn, in a single idea, Tangier. Following comparatist Claudio Guillén's studies on exile and from a hermeneutical methodological perspective, the recovery --or loss-- of the author's identity is examined through the language used in his literature, which underlines the deep sense of uprooting that Buenaventura experienced when, in 1958, he felt he had been expelled from paradise. It seems it is through the literary language held in memory that Ramón Buenaventura manages to recreate the city of his birth, Tangier, which has very little to do with the mythical image projected in recent years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper displays a reflection about autofiction as a literary genre and mourning as an important topic in literature. On the other hand, it shows a study of the novel by Colombian author Paola Caballero Daza Camas gemelas (2020) from a feminist, reparative and affective perspective. In this novel autofiction is a recurring topic. It is concluded that autofiction emerges to deal with an impossible mourning beyond the traditional social framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to highlight both, the validity and importance of traditional literature, in the creation of the diverse imaginary worlds offered by contemporary literature for young people. To this end, some of the topics and motifs of traditional literature that weave the story of Harry Potter are analyzed. The focus is specifically on making an exhaustive comparative review on the appearance of the fatality of death, and the figure of "the unnamable" in traditional stories compiled by Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm and published in the first edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen. By relating the stories of the Grimm brothers with some intradiegetic tales of the Harry Potter saga, it is evident how some stories are adapted from mythological tales and updated to a contemporary magical universe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents the content of discussions held over three seminars on the theme of the heterogeneous subfield of Social Cartography in Brazil and in Latin America. It produces a reflection that represents the issues raised by those who design, develop and participate in these cartographic experiences. It cited relevant literature, but most of the contributions presented emerged from discussions that took place during these events. The research aims to contribute to the expansion of cartographic discussion in Brazil and in Latin America, which includes different perspectives and ideas about conceptual, epistemological and methodological dimensions of mapping experiences that increasingly integrate situations of cartographic disputes that are being overlapping territorial disputes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Literature played a fundamental role in Benjamin's political thought. His concept of experience in modernity could not be understood without the figures of Baudelaire and Proust. But in this paper it is not about observing Benjaminian categories in the literature that talks about migration phenomena, but about retaking the political character of his concept of allegory, of seeing certain literature as an illumination, in a determined temporality, of an instant of danger capable of provoking a productive and memorable detention. The Arrival by Shaun Tan is a fictional story in images that accounts for the migratory flow that does not stop throughout the world and the allegories that are manifested, anchored to precise and temporary stories. Literature, then, establishes a relation with these times: complex and terrible, forming what Walter Benjamin would call a dialectical image. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Th e purpose of the present article is to analyse the fi eld of poetry criticism in Spain in relation to the reception of Antonio Gamoneda’s work, especially after the publication of his Descripción de la mentira in 1977. Th is paper focuses on the exegetic labour performed by Miguel Casado since 1987 (year of publication of Gamoneda’s Edad), when he started to critique the methodologies of the dominant criticism in Spain. Based on the relation between criticism and literature, this paper proposes the formulation of a critique of criticism that moves away from lineal and progressive postulates and views the history of literature from the departing notion of history in a mesh. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article proposes a reading of the Brazilian baroque from a Latin American perspective. With that purpose, the paper analyses Ana Miranda's novel Boca do Inferno and initially contrasts it with O sequestro do Barroco na Formação da literatura brasileira: o caso Gregório de Matos by Haroldo de Campos. Based on the figure of Gregório de Matos, the study highlights the need to correlate the Bahian poet, Matos, with Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. The paper puts forward the hypothesis that Sor Juana was "kidnapped" in the Brazilian baroque because she had defied Father Vieira (another central character in Miranda's novel) and consequently, that it would be impossible to define the baroque in Latin America without including Sor Juana. The paper highlights the need to integrate Brazil literature more organically into Latin American literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper introduces the idea that essay has a aesthetics, a literary style, but at the same time this aesthetics is a mental style that presupposes a ethics as ground. Therefore, we think the essay as philosophy. More precisely: in modernity, philosophy is essayistic. This essay's philosophy has five main characteristics that are inseparable from each other. Essay is based on lifeworld and in consequence is a experimental philosophy opposed to the rationalist system. This philosophy is a philosophy of finitude, anti-absolutist, that defends the philosophical relevance of the concrete and real subject. Finally, the essay understands critical reflection as a method of freedom. Essayistic philosophy contains a ethics that avoids both rationalist totalitarianism and aestheticist nihilism, and that concludes in a dialogical pluralism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to reflect on the possible links between aesthetics, politics and ethics in Scholastique Mukasonga's The Barefoot Woman (2018), in regards to its elaboration on a claim for recognition. We make use of Jacques Rancière's concept of politics to analyze the unfolding of the author's narrative, which shuffles the terms of the distribution of the sensible as it makes an account of and thus humanizes a dispossessed and silenced people. We also investigate the relationship between the status given to Tutsis as subjects liable to systematic violence and state-sanctioned extermination, and the ethical urgency of the account given by Mukasonga's narrator through her mother's story, which embraces its own opacities and limits, assuming since the beginning its vulnerability and dependence on a primary sociability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text is a heuristic account of the many arrangements (or agencements) of the literary experience through the debate over the aesthetic exceptionality and the position of the subject in artistic experience. It starts by discussing how the concept of subject guided the different aesthetic approaches in literary and aesthetic theory, turning art into some sort of fatiche which incorporates itself into the Western metaphysics that allegedly works as a static reference for the thinking of the world in which we live in. Then, after redefining the role of the subject in the aesthetic experience, the paper tries to present works of art as objects that speculate and experiment with the immanence. Thus, the exceptionality of the aesthetics lies in its completely original position regarding the potentially infinite ways of making words (cosmovisions) by means of literary agencements. Finally, the article ends with a reflection on the arrangements or agencements within immanence itself, shedding light on how literature connects itself with this kind of experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article undertakes a detailed analysis of the only novel by the Guatemalan writer Luis de Lión. The paper establishes the novel's character as heterogeneous literature (in accordance with the terminology of Cornejo Polar), as it discusses how the author's ethnic origin suggests a subversive element with respect to indi-genist literature and "ethno-fiction" Further, the novel's mimetic constitution is described and the importance of migrant subjectivity is established as part of the author's intention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the greatest problems faced in countries under colonial structures is the difficulty of self-representation, of creating their own narratives. In Puerto Rico, for a long time, the response to the double colonization (first by the Spanish and then by the Americans) has been approached through literature. This fact is easily identifiable in the vast production of works that attempt to systematize an idea of Puertoricanness. Thus, the aim of this paper is to analyze how this problematic resurfaces in donde (2005), a book by Eduardo Lalo (1964), who reflects on an idea of Puerto Rican identity that goes against the grain and is alien to nationalist essentialisms and homogenizing tendencies about the Caribbean, proposing new categories to think and, above all, to reinterpret Caribbean culture through notions such as "scratched writing"; and also by questioning inherited narratives about the idea of homeland, provenance, tradition. For this purpose, the theoretical premises of Stuart Hall, Jacques Derrida, Gina Saraceni, Juan Duschesne-Winter, will assist us in the reflection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores possible linkages between some aspects of Latin American Popular Education (Educación Popular latinoamericana) and classroom approaches to literary texts, based on the analysis of classwork around the reading of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (Spanish title: Un Mundo Feliz) at a working-class secondary school for youth and adults (Bachillerato Popular) in Pompeya, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The educational process, documented through an ethnographic lens, takes place in an interdisciplinary course that connects literature with the cooperative movement and the solidarity economy. This curricular option, in the context of a secondary school for youth and adults whose political/pedagogical stance recognizes the value of self-government, horizontalism and popular participation as some of its ruling principles, has an impact on the production of critical knowledge, on pedagogical relationships within the classroom, and on the structuring of the educational process, including its evaluation. From a reading conception as a cultural practice framework, this paper identifies the potentials and tensions in the pedagogical strategies displayed in the classroom, with the goal of developing collective knowledge between concrete individuals, on and through literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the problem of creative processes involved in passing from one art to another. To bring forward this reflection, it was selected the problem of the configuration from the real, such as it was carried out in painting, photography or film and then to understand its appropriation by using the literary speech. The purpose of this paper is to make comprehensible the operations that support a realistic representation, conceived as a rhetorical procedure expressed under the evidence, and still, it interpellates a realistic visual experience exclusive by means of the written word. Handling with the written word's boundaries, we try to prove the thesis in this paper, not only in the prose, traditional locus of realism, but also as in poetry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes an approach to the poetic write of the Colombian Raúl Gómez Jattin. As a result of the interpretation of the poems "Veneno de Serpiente Cascabel" and "El Elogio de los alucinogenos" written in the period from 1983 to 1986, this paper explain the symbolic multiplicity of poetic writing by Raúl Gómez Jattin. In relation with a viewpoint philosophical-literary this paper can decipher the relationship between the poetic saying and the connotations of otherness that the world of literature crosses, that from the poetry of Raúl Gómez Jattin is thought at the same time as descent, possibility of challenge to study the elements of the transgression what the Colombian poet Raúl Gómez Jattin needs inexcusable for the affirmation of life and literary space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Technological progress has captured students' attention to the extent that they are particularly absorbed by their mobile phones, computers, and some others similar tools. Thus, teachers must take advantage of this situation and consider how hybrid genres such as instant messaging currently influence new generations. What It is sustained in this paper is the potential advantage that the use of instant messaging, through the WhatsApp Messenger application, may have as a pedagogical resource within High School classroom, and more specifically, in 3rd year of ESO literature classes. Genre hybridity is considered to support this hypothesis, despite reticence that several linguists have about such distinction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims a new approach to indigenous representation in literature and cinema through the intertextual analysis between La Vorágine (1924) [The Vortex] and El abrazo de la serpiente (2015) [Embrace of the Serpent]. It is concluded, after a detailed study, that both - the novel and the film, bring a new perspective from the indigenous by means of simplicity as an actual way of being of this important conununity in Colombia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper takes as reference the sociological ideology that is inferred from the essays of Mario Vargas Llosa. At the same time, that worldview that will be identified by the author will be explained and linked to The Time of the Hero. The objective of this confrontational work is to propose an epistemological organization based on the perception of the Peruvian writer and to appreciate how it is corroborated in one of his novels. For this, I have systematized the themes that the narrator reoccurs in extrapolating in his speech, which are related to the conception of Literature and human nature. These topics will be important for the reader to make a judgment about reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper discusses the concept of community in the work of Italian political theorist Roberto Esposito. The relationship between Esposito's idea of communitas and recent literature in animal rights theory is explored. It is argued that the communitas theorized by Esposito contributes to rethinking the political beyond the human, in ways that complement, but also challenge, the idea of political community presupposed in, but not explicitly theorized by, Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka's notion of zoopolis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

José Joaquín Benegasi y Luján (1707–1770) is a writer of the Spanish post-Baroque period specialised in seriocomic literatura. His dramatic work (one burlesque comedy and five short pieces) follow the patterns of the Spanish Golden Age theatre. In this paper, after giving some brief notes on his critical fortune, it is offered the analysis and annotated edition of his interlude El ingenio apurado. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper advances the analysis of the concept of Umwelt in Jakob von Uexküll's work, by examining its different formulations, and highlighting the successive redefinitions of its two components: the perception world (Merkwelt) and the effect world (Wirkungswelt, Wirkwelt). Considering the significant impact that the concept of Umwelt had on continental philosophy, the purpose of this study is to reconstruct its meaning through a historical-conceptual analysis, to illuminate some aspects that are not usually thematized in literature--in particular, those related to the effect world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Within the research on reception of Medea in Literature and Art, this paper studies the play Medea Redux, a recreation of Euripides' Medea by the controversial American playwright Neil Labute (1999). Through a comparative analysis between Labute's and Euripides' texts, the procedures followed by Labute to 'appropriate' the ancient mythos are studied, in order to conclude on the aspects that interest the modern author and on the areas in which he innovates. This is done both in terms of the mythical story itself and the characters, and in terms of the elimination or conservation of certain formal aspects of the ancient tragedy. A connection is also established between Labute's theatre (in Medea Redux but also in Helter Skelter, a 2008 play also inspired by the Greek Medea) and the moral background of the Euripidean Tragedy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Towards the end of XXth century and the beginning of the XXIst in Latin America, narrative texts are produced which respond to the search for a relationship between literature and art (both inside texts and outside them). In this relationship, the body has a fundamental role. This paper aims at analyzing Mario Bellatin 's La escuela del dolor humano de Sechuán [The Szechuan School of Human Suffering] (2005) and Poeta ciego [Blind Poet] (2010) by considering the figure of mise-en-scène. In its displacement into literary writing, this figure is understood as the arrangement of the stage-like space where characters perform cultural, ritual and theatrical actions through a particular narrative voice. Finally, the mise-en-scène stages performatic bodies as well as a "third body", using Esposito's term, which remains outside enunciation. Towards the end of XXth century and the beginning of the XXIst in Latin America, narrative texts are produced which respond to the search for a relationship between literature and art (both inside texts and outside them). In this relationship, the body has a fundamental role. This paper aims at analyzing Mario Bellatin's La escuela del dolor humano de Sechuán [The Szechuan School of Human Suffering] (2005) and Poeta ciego [Blind Poet] (2010) by considering the figure of mise-en-scène. In its displacement into literary writing, this figure is understood as the arrangement of the stage-like space where characters perform cultural, ritual and theatrical actions through a particular narrative voice. Finally, the mise-en-scène stages performatic bodies as well as a "third body", using Esposito's term, which remains outside enunciation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studies on suicide as a social phenomenon that affect public health policies and the growing increase in suicide cases in the Yucatecan population (Mayan and non-Mayan) have led different specialists to discuss the phenomenon in search of solutions to the problem. In a review of the specialized medical literature on the subject, we have found, with much repetition, the mention of a Mayan deity called Ixtab, who was associated with death by hanging, and was represented in the Dresden Codex with a rope around her neck. The figure of Ixtab has led to her being associated with the conception of suicide as it is known today, as a cultural causality, which seems to promote death by hanging as part of a pre-Hispanic cult, as a result of which, specialists on the subject of mental health believe, thus creates complications regarding their recommendations. Through a comparative analysis, including disciplines such as archeology and ethnohistory, the non-existence of Ixtab as a deity of death by hanging (suicide) was verified several years ago, therefore, two of the main sources of information were reviewed: the studies of pre-Hispanic Mayan writing, and the historical antecedents that led to the proposal of the existence of the goddess Ixtab and her connection with the act of suicide; this paper shows that it is an error of interpretation and is thus a distraction with regard to the present-day problems related to mental health and suicide in the Mayan region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes, from a fundamentally philosophical perspective, the political meanings of the literature on the armed conflict, giving as an example the novel En el brazo del río (2006 & 2017) by the Colombian writer Marbel Sandoval Ordoñez. These political meanings can be summed up in three: first, the reconstruction of traumatic memories, which achieve - due to their harshness- a powerful impression on the reader; second, memories converted into vehicles of narratives for the recognition (self-understanding) of how we came to be what we are as a society; and third, the aspiration that a reader affected by this type of narrative can break the vicious circle of violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper aims to expose the different rhetorical strategies in the identity configuration of Moses, the Jewish character on the Dialogus contra Iudaeos, written by Peter Alfonsi of Huesca c. 1106. This first exposition has a subsequent purpose: to evaluate the presence or absence of some textual components into the following anti-Jewish literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This contribution is product of the work conducted by the authors for the Project "Network of Knowledge" (financed by the Austrian Science Fund FWF 2012-2016, project number P 24400-G15, elaborated, proposed and directed by Bernhard Hurch), at the University of Graz, Austria. Even though the financed project has already concluded, the working on the archive of Hugo Schuchardt continues (see the website Hugo Schuchardt Archiv). This paper, resulting of the fusion of three articles of both authors related to the project, intents to show the importance of studying the contacts between scholars for the history of linguistics. The first part gives some background information about Hugo Schuchardt (1842-1927) and Rodolfo Lenz (1863-1938), followed by a brief introduction of the project "Network of Knowledge" and the Hugo Schuchardt Archive and a short historiographical contexualization (cf. Hurch 2009a, 2009b, 2009c). The second part of the article deals with the letter exchange between Lenz and Schuchardt. Besides a short description of the correspondence inside the Archivo Lenz, comments will be made in regard to the letters and to the theoretical agreement between both authors in respect to the creole languages. The third part of this contribution contains the transcribed correspondence of Lenz and Schuchardt together with a translation into Spanish by Juan Ennis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the figure of the intellectual in Michel Foucault and Maurice Blanchot, from three distinct perspectives: 1) The affirmation of the anonymity of language; 2) the critical approach against power; and 3) the ethics of thinking and writing. The intellectual is thus characterized as an anonymous voice among anonymous voices; as someone who holds power accountable; as a solidary guard for the anonymous--and his writing as the exercise of a specific kind of responsibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I defend a moderately cognitive account of religious beliefs. Religious beliefs are interpreted as "worldview beliefs", which I explain as being indispensable to our everyday and scientific practice; my reading is nonetheless distinct from non-cognitivist readings of "worldview belief" which occasionally appear in the literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The poetic work of Esther Tapia de Castellanos is a key piece for the understanding of two fundamental cultural phenomena in the process of construction of the national project of the Mexican liberals; from the perspective of the political use of literature, it contributes to the configuration of one / another sense of Homeland, because his poems propose feminine images that endow the face of the nation with the idea of a nation that tried to settle down in those years; from the purely literary representation, his poetry is full of portraits of the must be of the Mexican woman. In the communion of both aspects Esther Tapia's poetry is, at the same time, an exercise of acceptance of the roles traditionally imposed on women and a subversive act against them, if we consider that the incursion of women in the field of the literary creation goes beyond the limits of the closed and intimate space of the home and appropriates the public scenarios reserved for the male. In this paper we propose an approach to the poems of Esther Tapia that were published in the nineteenth century press. We took as a starting point the notion of Homeland to analyze from the poetic mechanisms employees, the way in which the female subject is refracted in the texts of this author. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we have analyzed the acoustic cues of Spanish stress (duration, amplitude, fundamental frequency) in the possessive mi in order to discover dialect differences between the North and the South of Peninsular Spanish. For this purpose, we have compared the possessives of three towns in the North and three in the South of Spain, using the recordings of the corpus COSER. Results empirically show that the values of duration, amplitude, and F0 in the possessives of both zones are similar, contradicting the literature on the topic. However, in Asturias the possessives have an accent linked to the left periphery and conditioned by the information structure of the sentence. This fact would explain the stressed values in the literature: the possessives in Asturias hold an accent (not stress) in specific positions different to other varieties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]