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A uniform hieroglyphic : Further shades of meaning in Go Down, Moses.
1999
This essay offers a new interpretation of the role of Rider, the protagonist of “Pantaloon in Black”, within the context of Faulkner’s novel, Go Down, Moses. Although this character seems to be one of the least important in the book, he may really provide a pattem for Faulkner’s larger designs. Rider’s obsesgion with bis dead wife, Niannie, the appearance of her ghost, and bis struggle, against bis own vitality, to die and rejoin her can be read as a parallel to Isaac Mc Caslin’s initiation into a dead Indian culture based on spiritual rather than materialistic values, and as a foreshadowing of Ike’s eventual renunciation of his birthright, the McCaslin plantation. The final implication is …
On the Origins of Spanish Hieroglyphs: Part One
2015
ABSTRACT: In this paper the Spanish reception of hieroglyphs, and its outcome, is presented as an important aspect of the process of transmission of hieroglyphs in Early-Modern Europe. This change of perspective is important because it gives a general context for the phenomenon in Spain, clarifies its ties with the rest of the continent through the process of diffusion and –perhaps more relevantly– highlights the distinct characteristics that hieroglyphs assumed in Spain as response to a different mentality, culminating with the creation of what the author regards as «classic Spanish hieroglyphs». KEYWORDS: Hieroglyph, Emblem, Diffusion, Genre. RESUMEN: En este trabajo, dividido en dos part…
Las exequias de Isabel de Farnesio en Guatemala, 1767-68.
2010
Las exequias reales en Hispanoamérica son un exponente de la tradición europea, en la forma y en los contenidos que se tratan en este tipo de fiestas luctuosas. En el caso de las reinas son en la mayoría de las ocasiones una forma de alabanza para rendir pleitesía a la figura del monarca, ya sea, reinante, como en este caso, oel heredero de la corona. Estas fiestas son el escaparate de una expresión simbólica que pone de manifiesto la utilización de repertorios europeos heredados de la tradición europea y española. Una de sus mayores muestras son los jeroglíficos, que componen una tradición arraigada en las exequias, como forma de alabar y glorificar la vida y actos del difunto. Estas carte…