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Fragmentos de um discurso político. Intervenções críticas
2019
This essay argues for the pertinence of the semiotic view on politics, as well as the political character of research in semiotics. Through about the discursive organization in contemporary politics, and the idea of political discourse, the author elaborates analyses and reflections on themes and passions with which he identifies a specific way for semiotics to answer the questions promoted by the field of politics. To this end, the author elaborates analyses and reflections on themes and passions with which he identifies a specific way for semiotics to answer the questions promoted by the field of politics. The work also aims to deconstruct myths and naturalized meanings. Such semiotic ges…
Abraham Bids Farewell to Hagar and Ishmael: Continuity and Variation of the Iconographic Type
2021
In traditional Christian artistic visualization, the episode of Hagar and Ishmael in the desert has given rise to various iconographic types: “The feast for the weaning of Isaac and Sara’s protests,” “Abraham bids farewell to Hagar and Ishmael,” “Hagar and Ishmael in the desert” and “Divine salvation for Hagar and Ishmael”. This study looks into the continuity and variation over time of the second of these types: “Abraham bids farewell to Hagar and Ishmael,” the one most depicted out of this entire biblical topic or episode. Since the Byzantine Octateuch in the East (11th century.) and the Canterbury Hexateuch (ca. 1025&ndash…
Jo Nesbø’s The Snowman and the Myth of Týr: Addressing Contemporary Issues through Literary Tradition
2018
Il saggio esplora il modo in cui l'autore di Scandi-noir Jo Nesbø rifunzionalizza il mito norreno del dio germanico Týr (e anche alcuni altri episodi mitologici) nel suo popolare romanzo The Snowman (2007). Nesbø adatta questi miti medievali per creare situazioni ed enigmi allusivi e sfrutta il gioco intellettuale del medievalismo per creare un significato semanticamente denso. Il romanzo quindi esplora e considera varie questioni contemporanee tra cui, per esempio, il valore della “verità” rispetto alla percezione individuale (e contestuale), la supposta dicotomia tra vittima e carnefice, e il conflitto tra individuo e società. L'analisi dimostra non solo la densità semantica di The Snowma…
Sexism and romantic love myths in adolescents living in residential care
2021
La investigación explora la relación entre sexismo y la distorsión en mitos del amor romántico en adolescentes que residen en Centros de Acogida de Menores en Valencia (España). El diseño de investigación fue descriptivo transversal con una muestra de 147 adolescentes. Los resultados reflejan una relación estadísticamente significativa que indica que, a mayor sexismo en los y las adolescentes, mayores son las distorsiones románticas. Se identificaron mayores niveles de sexismo hacia las mujeres y mitos del amor romántico en chicos, mientras que las mujeres mostraron mayores puntuaciones en las actitudes sexistas hacia los hombres. Se concluye que la vivencia de situaciones de violencia fami…
The Myth of French Influence Over Spanish Codification: The General Part of the Criminal Codes of 1822 and 1848
2018
The chapter aims to explore the scope of the foreign influences, that of the French in particular, in the criminal codes of 1822 and 1848/50. In doing so, the author departs from the views of some 19th century criminal lawyers who, like J. F. Pacheco, stated that in the old criminal laws “nothing was worthy of respect, or conservation” and “there was only one legitimate and viable system, the system of codification, the system of absolute change,” and recognizing that drafters were fully acquainted with the case of France, a jurisdiction that managed to turn its old laws—including the criminal ones—into modern codes (1804–1811). The author briefly presents the status quaestionis of the dich…
Historia i mitologia Kresów Wschodnich Rzeczypospolitej
2020
Celem artykułu jest ukazanie dorobku historiograficznego na temat Kresów Wschodnich Rzeczypospolitej na przestrzeni ostatnich trzydziestu lat, kiedy po usunięciu cenzury wielu badaczy w polskich środowiskach akademickich oraz wielu literatów, publicystów, dokumentalistów, autorów wspomnień i pamiętników, poczęło publikować ważne prace naukowe, popularnonaukowe i publicystyczne. W artykule przedstawiony jest dorobek najwybitniejszych i najpłodniejszych badaczy Kresów. Autor poddaje analizie najważniejsze wypowiedzi i dzieła m.in. prof. Jacka Kolbuszewskiego, Bolesława Hadaczka, Janusza Tazbira, Jerzego Janickiego, Witolda Szolgini, Tadeusza Olszańskiego, Romana Aftanazego, Daniela Beauvois o…
Plausibilitat d?un ancestre comú entre les obres mitològiques de Joan Roís de Corella i les Transformacions de Francesc Alegre
2020
Between the Transformacions of Francesc Alegre (c.1452 - c.1508) and the mythological proses of Joan Roís de Corella some textual coincidences have been detected. Not without reservations, these coincidences have been explained as Corellas influence on Alegre. This is the most satisfactory explanation, given Alegre’s admiration and imitation of Corella’s prose, and Corella’s huge fame in the second half of the fifteenth century. However, Alegre knew earlier versions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, such as that by Francesc de Pinós (1416-1475), or the anonymous Castilian version, both nowadays lost. And perhaps these versions were known by Corella too. The textual coincidences of these two authors …
Deconstrucción y crítica del ethos épico en Lavinia (2008) de Ursula K. Le Guin.
2019
espanolUrsula K. Le Guin reescribe en Lavinia (2008) la leyenda del establecimiento de Eneas en Italia desde el punto de vista de su protagonista femenina. Este articulo analiza tres aspectos donde el nuevo planteamiento narrativo entra en conflicto con la propuesta virgiliana: la recreacion de la religion arcaica de los latinos, la racionalizacion del aparato mitologico propio de la epica, y la critica directa a las virtudes morales propias del estamento guerrero. EnglishUrsula K. Le Guin rewrites the legend of the establishment of Eneas in Italy in Lavinia (2008) from the point of view of the female protagonist of the novel. This article analyzes three aspects in which the new narrative a…
The Firstborn of Death: Monotheism and the Mythology of Death in Job 18
2019
AbstractJob 18 depicts the destruction of the wicked as a kind of ambush by “the firstborn of death.” Much of the discussion of this passage has centered on this figure’s identification, and whether one should look primarily to Ugaritic or Mesopotamian mythological traditions for its background. Yet the passage as a whole concludes with a reference to a single “God,” knowledge of whom is determinative for human fate. This raises a basic question concerning the relation between “God” and the “firstborn of death.” Through a close comparison with the Ugaritic Baal Cycle and the Neo-Assyrian Underworld Vision on the one hand, and Job 5 and Deuteronomy 32 on the other, this paper argues that “th…
TRANSLATING A FAVELA MUSICAL: VINICIUS DE MORAES’ ORFEU DA CONCEIÇÃO IN GERMAN
2022
Zusammenfassung Vinicius de Moraes’ Musiktheaterstück Orfeu da Conceição. Tragédia carioca em três atos (1954) kann sowohl als Klassiker brasilianischer Literatur als auch als Weltliteratur betrachtet werden. Vinicius verknüpft den griechischen Stoff mit afrobrasilianischer Kultur, Musikstücken, die später zu Bossa Nova-Klassiker wurden und inszeniert einen schwarzen Orpheus auf einem Favelahügel in Rio de Janeiro. Das Stück wurde zwar mehrfach verfilmt, aber kaum übersetzt. Der Beitrag möchte ein paar Herausforderungen für die Übersetzung ins Deutsche skizzieren. Vor allem für die Vermittlung afrobrasilianischer Kultur müssen Strategien entwickelt werden. Erstens soll es um das semantische…