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Local Government Reforms in Latvia, 1990-2003: Transition to a Democratic Society
2004
This case study of Latvian local governments focuses on the qualitative aspects of reform legislation passed and implemented between 1990 and 2003 as the best available measures of changes made. Special attention is given to historical influences and inherited Soviet practices, the uncertain and conflicting value systems of reformers, and a gradual shift to concerns about the services provided. Power relationships are examined, together with the funding of local governments and minority relations. It is anticipated that in 2005 Latvia will adopt new elected regional development boards to work with the EU and other external institutions, leading to more democratic and cooperative modes of go…
Planetary activism at the end of the world: Feminist and posthumanist imaginaries beyond Man
2022
We are currently experiencing a planetary crisis that will lead, if worst comes to worst, to the end of the entire world as we know it. Several feminist scholars have suggested that if the Earth is to stay livable for humans and nonhumans alike, the ways in which many human beings – particularly in the wealthy parts of the world, infested with Eurocentrism, (neo)colonialism, neoliberalism, and capitalism – inhabit this planet requires radical, ethical, and political transformation. In this article, we propose that feminist theory, particularly feminist posthumanities, and Black feminist and decolonial thought, together with creative practices such as writing, have much to contribute to tra…
Metanarrative of the "New Father" and Narratives of Young Finnish First-Time Fathers
2011
The metanarrative of the “new father” has become well-established in both the public and academic discourses on families. This study analyzes the narratives and storylines about fatherhood told by young Finnish first-time fathers, and examines the interrelationship between these narratives and the metanarrative of the “new father.” Three different narratives were identified—the modern, the transition and the postmodern narratives of fathering. Although constructed differently, all three narratives engaged with the metanarrative of the new father by reflecting on it and by drawing a distinction between their perceptions of fatherhood and the narratives of the past. In conclusion, the idea of…
The self-fiction and history in Serge Doubrovsky' s, Georges Perec' s and Jorge Semprun' s works
2014
This thesis addresses the relationship between writing about oneself, writing about History and how three contemporary authors – Serge Doubrovsky, Georges Perec and Jorge Semprun – fictionalized themselves. The first two sections’ aim is to establish biographical, historical and literary guidelines, indispensable to the better comprehension of an individual, an era and a literary landscape. On the basis of information collected like so, the third and fourth sections analyse the characteristics of writing about oneself when dealing with History. This discussion is articulated around two axis: that of childhood and that of quest for identity. From underlining theme, History progressively beco…
“¡O vos, dubitantes, creed las istorias e los infortunios de los humanales!”. Ficción alegórica y modos de “recontar” en los decires de don Íñigo Lóp…
2017
Los decires narrativos de don Íñigo López de Mendoza representan una de las muestras más sobresalientes de la aclimatación de la ficción alegórica en la literatura medieval hispánica. Uno de los procedimientos centrales en el proceso de composición de estas obras se basa en la selección de recursos estilísticos orientados a recrear una atmósfera de irrealidad. Partiendo, pues, de esta premisa, el objetivo de este estudio se centra en detectar tales elecciones estilísticas e interpretarlas con las herramientas y conocimientos que nos brinda la Filología. De entre el conjunto de recursos expresivos de que dispone la lengua castellana medieval, nos centraremos de modo especial en tres fenómeno…
Las batallas de Atapuerca y la (re)escritura novelesca de la historia
2020
La batalla de Atapuerca (1054) constituye un hito en la historia del reino de Navarra. Desde su primera versión historiográfica conservada en la Historia silense (c. 1118-1126), el relato de la batalla de Atapuerca sufrió modificaciones, amplificaciones y refundiciones en su extensa dispersión en el tiempo y el espacio. En este trabajo se lleva a cabo, en un primer momento, una comparación entre distintas versiones latinas (fundamentalmente la Silense, el Chronicon mundi y De rebus Hispaniae) y castellanas de este episodio para luego dar lugar al análisis de una versión tardía del enfrentamiento incluida en el manuscrito 431 de la Biblioteca Nacional de España, códice que dataría de la segu…
The lai “Si bé, Fortuna, has dat lo torn”: a critical edition of the catalan poem from the novel Triste deleitación
2019
The Castilian novel Triste deleitación, written in the late fifteenth century by an author from the Crown of Aragon, includes several letters and poems. One of these poems, “Sy bé, Fortuna, as dat lo torn”, is written in Catalan. This article presents the poem’s annotated critical edition, which reports how it is indebted to the Catalan lyrical tradition. Written in an evolved form of the French lai cultivated by various Catalan poets, the poem is clearly influenced by Pere Torroella’s lai “Qui volrà veure un pobre estat”, and linked to two other similar lais also dependent on Torroella’s. This edition is completed by a translation into modern Catalan. La novel·la en castellà Triste deleita…
El final del bandoler : aproximació a la literatura de patíbul de la Corona d?Aragó
2017
Resum: Durant l’època moderna s’imprimiren nombrosos plecs de cordell relacionats amb el bandolerisme en els territoris de la Corona d’Aragó. Una part important d’aquests textos populars és el final que rep el protagonista de la història, què normalment solia acabar en el patíbul. Per eixa raó, el present article posa l’accent en un tema poc tractat fins al moment com són les execucions públiques en aquest tipus de relats literaris. En aquestes pàgines s’estudia, per una banda, el ritual punitiu que sofria el reu quan anava a ser executat: formes d’execució, turments, penes corporals o la intenció que tenien els pamflets que s’imprimien. Per altra, es comparen documents judicials amb els pl…
The Sickle and the Piano. A Distant Reading of Work in the Nineteenth Century Romanian Novel
2020
This article conducts a semantic search of The Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel: The 19th Century (MDRR), through which the authors attempt to identify the occurrences of several key concepts for class and labour imagery in the nineteenth-century Romanian novel, such as “muncă” [labour/work], “muncitor” [labourer/worker], “țăran” [peasant], “funcționar” [civil servant], alongside two main words that strikingly point out to a dissemblance of representation of work: “seceră” [sickle] and “pian” [piano]. The authors show that physical work is underrepresented in the Romanian novel between 1844 and 1900, and that novelists prefer to participate to the rise of the novel through representing …
De Habsburgos a Borbones. Legistas y canonistas en la Real Universidad de México
2020
A lo largo de todo el periodo colonial, la Universidad de México fue mayoritariamente canonista en cuanto a las preferencias de sus estudiantes juristas. Sin embargo, hemos podido comprobar que para el tránsito de los siglos XVII a XVIII se aprecia alguna diferencia o particularidad, en cuanto que, respecto a algunos parámetros, las referencias sobre Leyes llegan a superar a las de Cánones. La cronología de esta singularidad resulta coincidente con los cambios en la política de nombramiento de las autoridades novohispanas, especialmente para la Audiencia. En este estudio intentamos acercarnos a la relación explicativa que pudiera haber entre estas dos realidades, cuestionándonos algunas pos…