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Irak: una lectura dialógica
2006
Splendori di Sicilia al Victoria and Albert Museum. Relazioni tra collezionismo anglosassonee arti decorative siciliane attraverso le raccolte del De…
2012
The city on the Moldau as a liminal space: Prague in Anthony Trollope's "Nina Balatka"
2022
The article discusses Anthony Trollope's representation of the city of Prague in his 1867 novel Nina Balatka, which first appeared anonymously in the Blackwood's Magazine. The novel tells the story of the eponymous protagonist, a Christian woman, who falls in love with a Jewish man. Trollope's choice of Prague as the backdrop for the story of two lovers separated by the great gulf between Christians and Jews seems particularly fitting, because the spatial division of the city by the river Moldau which separates the Christian and the Jewish parts of town reinforces the sense that the two protagonists come from different worlds. Trollope's characters exist in the realistically represented cit…
La Phaedra de Swinburne (1866): construcciones de la feminidad en la literatura victoriana
2008
En este trabajo estudiamos el poema "Phaedra" de Algernon Charles Swinburne desde la utilización de la mujer como objeto de transformación de la construcción de la cultura y la sociedad británicas del siglo XIX. Para ello, en primer lugar, nos aproximamos de forma sucinta a dos aspectos fundamentales de la creación social de lo femenino y su manifestación en las artes: la (no) representación del cuerpo/palabra de la mujer y el reflejo de la misma en la construcción femenina decimonónica. A continuación, exploramos brevemente algunas de las figuras femeninas desde las que Swinburne transgrede el modelo de mujer dibujado en los manuales de conducta femenina victorianos para analizar, finalmen…
Mujer, poder político y democracia paritaria. “Mujer y representación política institucional en la Comunidad Valenciana. 1977-1995. 2 parte.
2014
Mujer, poder político y democracia paritaria. “Mujer y representación política institucional en la Comunidad Valenciana. 1977-1995. 2 parte. En esta segunda parte se recogen las mujeres que han formado parte de la Administración Local (alcaldesas, diputadas provinciales y FVMP), en los sindicatos, asi como en otras instituciones: Consell Valencià de Cultura, Consejo de Radiotelevisión Valenciana, Sindicatura de Agravios, Academia Valenciana de la Lengua, universidades, direcciones de partidos políticos, y otras organizaciones de la Comunidad Valenciana. “Mujer y representación política institucional en la Comunidad Valenciana. 1977-1995. Diputadas, ministras y cargos institucionales” es la …
Taming of the Rake: From a Man about Town to a Man at Home in "The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall" by Anne Brontë
2015
In „The Tenant of Wildfell Hall” Anne Brontë considers one of the most burning questions of the Victorian period, i.e. the problem of male domestic violence. The novel contributed to the public debate on the defects of the legal system which discriminated against women and made them totally dependent on their fathers and husbands. However, the writer’s diagnosis of the social issue does not focus on the formal aspects only, as she believed that political action should be accompanied by a farreaching reconceptualisation of nineteenth-century models of femininity and masculinity. Brontë suggests that legal reform is not enough to eliminate such pathologies as marital abuse. She tries to disma…
Climate change impact on SWAT simulated streamflow in western Kenya
2009
12 pages (3/4 p.); International audience; Weather and climate extremes such as droughts and floods have far reaching impacts in Kenya. They have had implications in a variety of sectors including agriculture, water resources, health, energy, and disaster management among others. Lake Victoria and its catchment support millions of people and any impact on its ability to support the livelihoods of the communities in this region is of major concern. Thus, the main objective of this study was to assess the potential future climatic changes on the Nzoia catchment in the Lake Victoria basin, and how they might affect streamflow. The Soil and Water Assessment Tool was used to investigate the impa…
"The wrathful sunset glared...": The Krakatoa Sunsets in Victorian Science and Art
2020
The eruption of Krakatoa on August 27, 1883 was an event both tragic and spectacular. Thousands of lives were lost; sea waves and atmospheric disturbances were detected around the globe. Billions of tons of volcanic ash were thrown into the atmosphere producing multi-coloured sunsets caused by the scattering of light by aerosol particles. The paper discusses the ways in which these so-called Krakatoa sunsets, which were experienced by most of the world, were reflected in Victorian scientific and artistic discourse. The accounts included in the section “Descriptions of the Unusual Twilight Glows in Various Parts of the World, in 1883–84” of the Royal Society report The Eruption of Krakatoa a…
Forms of Artistic Commitments (1880-1940) Introduction
2016
International audience; Introduction to a series of essays
Introduction “‘Literary Offenses’ and Other Contentious Matter” A one-day conference on Literary Controversyin Great Britain and the United States (1…
2017
International audience