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The impact of theatrical experiences on young adults in Spain

2018

This study examines how young adults experience theatre and how this activity impacts their personal development. A total of 305 subjects, between 14 and 29 years old, completed the 'Theatre and me' (T&Y) battery of questions. Correlation and variance analysis were conducted considering age and gender. Older subjects reported that participating in drama activities has a greater impact on their lives, helps them to have a greater proclivity to take risks and to be more open-minded. With respect to gender, girls score higher than boys in 'Tolerance to RiskTaking and Commitment', 'Identity and Consciousness', Expression of Feeling' and 'Escape'

Effect of Camera Angle on Perception of Trust and Attractiveness

2017

Film theories have long proposed that the vertical camera angle influences how the scene and the character in it are interpreted. An elevated camera (high-angle shot) should diminish the qualities of the actor, whereas a lowered camera (low-angle shot) should elevate the actor in perspective as well as in the viewer’s opinion. We were interested in how this holds up for the impression of trustworthiness and attractiveness that the spectator receives of the actor. We filmed 12 actors in a scenario inspired by a TV show called Split or Steal, which features a one-time version of the prisoner’s dilemma. Subjects had to rate trustworthiness and attractiveness of the actors, and also judge if t…

La Escritura como sutura simbólica en la poesía de Francisco Brines: algunas calas

2014

La poesía de Francisco Brines siempre ha sido calificada como clásica, apelando a un equilibrio que, en la mayoría de los casos, parece evidente. Partiendo de la teoría de la herida trágica como origen de la creatividad, formulada, entre otros, por Creuzer, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Jung o Durand, nos hemos acercado a su poesía tratando de mostrar si en ella se da esa reconciliación (equilibrio de base estoica) con lo creado. Análisis que nos revela una rebelión de fondo, del mismo modo que su poesía se nos define de modo similar. En consecuencia, hemos señalado qué marcos escénicos (la ciudad y la noche) son los señalados en su obra como ámbitos de tal rebelión tan poco equilibrada, tan alejad…

Dominus qui incepit ipse perficiat: exhortaciones de fray Josep Mercader a las monjas dominicas del monasterio de Montesión en Barcelona (1740-1745)

2016

Resumen: De entre la galeria de personajes interesantes que nos ofrece el convento dominicano de Santa Catalina virgen y martir de Barcelona en el siglo XVIII destaca fray Josep Mercader (profesion 1720-1779). Un apartado importante aunque «intimo» de su obra lo constituyen las once breves exhortaciones que entre los anos 1740-1745 dirigio a las monjas dominicas del monasterio barcelones de Montesion con ocasion de las ceremonias de recepcion y profesion. En estos 20 folios podemos encontrar el discurso que un dominico cualificado dirigio a las monjas de clausura de su orden en dos momentos tan significativos de su trayectoria religiosa. Palabras clave: Josep Mercader, Dominicos (frailes y …

Bien Gloria. Baudelaire in China: A Study in Literary Reception

2014

Recensione del volume di Gloria Bien e sul suo approccio all'influenza di Baudelaire nella poesia cinese del XX secolo.

Tropes of Travel in Bernardine Evaristo’s Novels

2011

This paper is informed by an interpretative framework in which the theoretical paradigms of Cultural, Gender, (Post-)colonial and Tourism studies are interwoven. It is claimed that fostering a specific kind of literary and cultural tourism, centred on (post-)colonial authors’ works, might emerge as a political practice able to reshape the self-fashioning of Western European cultural heritage in non-essentialized terms. Consequently, this would also help promote cross-cultural exchanges. In this respect, Lara (1997), The Emperor’s Babe (2001) and Soul Tourists (2005), the first three novels by the London-born Anglo-Nigerian writer Bernardine Evaristo, appear to be extremely relevant literary…

Cross-cultural Post-colonial Symbioses in Bernardine Evaristo’s Novels and Literary Tourism: Towards a Non-Eurocentric Redefinition of Locality

2010

This essay illustrates the strategies through which literary tourism can activate transformative cultural strategies within the wider context non-Eurocentric definitions of locality.

Trauma and storytelling in Betty Louise Bell’s Faces in the Moon

2018

The dominant understanding of trauma as an epistemological crisis that can be mimetically passed on to readers has in the twenty-first century been criticized for its apolitical and ahistorical ori...

Die Lust an der Kultur/Theorie. Transdisziplinäre Interventionen. Für Wolfgang Müller-Funk

2013

Borges: de la metáfora del Libro–mundo a la construcción de un espacio topológico

2013

En el caso de Galileo la metafora del Libro-mundo servia para afirmar, con la propia potencia disruptiva, el intento de codificar una nueva concepcion de la ciencia y de la naturaleza. Una nueva vision del mundo se afirmaba mediante la oposicion entre la lectura directa del libro de la naturaleza y la indirecta, representada por los libros de Aristoteles. Borges utiliza la misma metafora que Galileo para denunciar la falsa transparencia de los mecanismos subyacentes al mismo Cosmos galileano y representar la duda ontologica que de el deriva. La oscilacion continua entre realidad, ficcion y sueno, tipica de toda la produccion borgeana - desde la poesia hasta los ensayos, desde los relatos ha…