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Féerie et désanchantement. Palerme arabe et grecque d’Anna de Noailles
2017
Nel 1908, Anna de Noailles intraprende un giro della Sicilia che suscita in lei vive emozioni. Palermo è la fonte privilegiata della sua profusione poetica, a tal punto che dodici delle poesie sulla Sicilia, parte della sezione Les Climats e della raccolta Les Vivants et le Morts (1913), quattro hanno come tema Palermo e altre tre fanno del capoluogo siciliano la tela di fondo. Palermo serve inoltre da sfondo a una bozza di romanzo, Octave. L'incanto iniziale si trasforma tuttavia pian piano in un disincanto che serpeggia in tutti suoi componimenti e che è traccia di una più profonda angoscia esistenziale. In 1908 Anna de Noailles starts a tour of Sicily that triggers her real emotions. Pal…
Memoria y ficción en El material humano de Rodrigo Rey Rosa: la representación imposible de la violencia en Guatemala
2017
El presente artículo analiza la novela de Rodrigo Rey Rosa, El material humano (2009), y la representación de la violencia que propone en su investigación sobre la realidad histórica de Guatemala a lo largo del siglo xx. El protagonista inicia una labor de indagación sobre las causas de la violencia de su país, para intentar comprender el origen del conflicto. Sin embargo, esta labor terminará con un triple fracaso: el cognoscitivo, el expresivo y el deontológico, representativos de toda una serie de narraciones sobre la memoria histórica en América Latina y España. This paper analyzes Rodrigo Rosa’s novel El material humano (2009), especially its representation of violence as seen through …
Lope de Vega y la historia en los escenarios de los siglos XX y XXI
2013
This paper aims to examine, on the one hand, the presence of Lope’s historical dramas on contemporary stage to confirm their continuity; and, on the other, to reflect on the distinctive features of the staging of these dramas from a specific corpus of performances dating from the last decades. The goal is to observe the current relevance of these dramas and performances, to study under what ethical and aesthetic assumptions characters are now represented and the historical episodes that Lope used in the creation of his fictions, as well as to analyze the possible connections between History, Lope and the audience of the 21st century.
Historical aspects of the translations and translators of Don Quixote in Germany in the 20th century
2013
Afirmar que toda Alemania conoce el Quijote, que por todas partes circulan traducciones de la obra, no es nada nuevo. Que el lector medio sepa cuántas traducciones existen o cuándo se llevó a cabo la versión que está leyendo, es algo extraño. Y más extraño todavía es que el lector sepa quién ha sido el traductor, a no ser que se trate de los “traductores estrella” de la literatura alemana, en el caso del Quijote, Ludwig Tieck, en otros casos, por ejemplo, August Wilhelm Schlegel, Arthur Schopenauer, Walter Benjamin o Stefan Zweig. Pero junto a estas “estrellas” ha habido un sinnúmero de buenos traductores a los que no se ha prestado la atención que quizá merecen. Nuestro trabajo pretende re…
Hjelmslev et la "fonction sémiotique", du modèle structural au modèle cognitif
2008
The article discusses the concept of semiotics function in Hjelmslev, finding sources of the theory of language’s stratification. The semiotic function, which is in Hjelmslev the principle underlying the dynamic layering, is identified here as both an attraction of two heterogeneous spaces and as a set of operations of sense’s establishment. At historiographic level, this article presents a new hypothesis of interpretation, that the hjelmslevian structuralism has not built a static theory of language, disinterested to the cognitive dimension, but a careful theory to operational aspects of semiosis.
Traductoras gallegas del siglo XX: reescribiendo la historia de la traducción desde el género y la nación
2011
Dentro de los incipientes Estudios Gallegos, la crítica feminista ha mostrado un empeño en desvelar el papel de las mujeres en el desarrollo del polisistema cultural. Sin embargo, en la historiografía feminista gallega la faceta traductora de muchas mujeres todavía no resulta suficientemente reconocida. Es por ello que, en el marco del creciente interés por desvelar el papel que han desempeñado en la historia de la humanidad tanto la traducción como las mujeres, este artículo busca explorar la historia de la traducción del siglo XX en el contexto gallego para poner de relieve la contribución de las traductoras, con un doble propósito: por un lado, ofrecer unas pinceladas sobre algunas tradu…
Professor Dr Med Oskar Fehr: the fate of an outstanding German-Jewish ophthalmologist: an early contributor to cornea and external disease.
2014
PURPOSE The aim of this study was to recount the immense and abrupt change in the private and professional life of a prominent German-Jewish ophthalmologist in the transition from democracy to dictatorship in Germany during the first half of the 20th century. METHODS This involves a Retrospective analysis of Fehr's clinical and scientific work as the first assistant of Julius Hirschberg's world-famous eye clinic in Berlin; evaluation of Fehr's successful tenure as a chair of Virchow's Eye Hospital; the catastrophic influence of Hitler's seizure of power on the private and professional lives of German-Jewish physicians; and an analysis of Fehr's personal and professional will to continue the…
Moral transgression, disease and holistic health in the Livingstonia Mission in late nineteenth and early twenttieth-century Malawi
2009
This article examines ideas of morality and health, and connections between moral transgression and disease in both Scottish missionary and Central African thought in the context of the Livingstonia Mission of the Presbyterian Free Church of Scotland in Malawi during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.2 By concentrating on debates, conflicts and co-operation between missionaries and Africans over the key issues of beer drinking and sexual morality, this article explores the emergence of a new ‘moral hygiene’ among African Christian communities in Northern Malawi.<br><br>Este artículo analiza las ideas sobre moralidad y salud, así como las relaciones entre transgre…
Samuel Fernberger's rejected doctoral dissertation: A neglected resource for the history of ape research in America.
2009
I summarize a never-completed 1911 doctoral dissertation on ape behavior by Samuel Fernberger of the University of Pennsylvania. Included are observations on many behavioral patterns including sensory and perceptual function, learning, memory, attention, imagination, personality, and emotion in an orangutan and two chimpanzees. There are examples of behavior resembling insight, conscience, tool use and imitation. Language comprehension was good but speech production was minimal. The document appears to contradict a brief published article on the project by William Furness in that punishment was frequently used. The document is important for understanding Fernberger's early career, for antic…
Parental effects on offspring longevity--evidence from 17th to 19th century reproductive histories.
2004
Family studies provide support for a modest genetic influence on offspring life span, although the magnitude of these correlations is small.The study aimed to clarify the relative contributions of parental age at birth and overall parental longevity on offspring lifespan, and to identify the biological and cultural mechanisms.Information was derived from two village genealogies (1650-1927) encompassing 9979 births (5315 males, 4664 females). Data selection was guided by the inclusion of information about parental age at birth and lifespan, offspring lifespan and cohort-specific life expectancy.Parental age at reproduction displayed a negative association with offspring survivability, which …