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Estudios del botánico aragonés Ignacio Jordán de Asso en la Universidad de Zaragoza (1760-1763)

2017

Este artículo se encuentra disponible a texto completo en la siguiente URL: http://www.floramontiberica.org/FM/Flora_Montiberica67.pdf Se hace un somero repaso biográfico de Ignacio Jordán de Asso, destacando la importancia de sus obras botánicas, precisando los años que cursó en la Universidad de Zaragoza sus estudios de Leyes y el ambiente académico de la época. / Ignacio Jordán de Asso’s quick biographical review, emphasizing the importance of his botanical works, specifying the school years in the University of Zaragoza studing Laws and the study environment of the period.

Brief Biography of Professor Natale D’Alessandro Dedicated in His Memory

2021

Voicing the Subaltern in African-American and Dalit Women's Autobiographies

2021

This paper aims to analyse two major autobiographies of Dalit women's literature and African American women's writing - Karukku (1992) by Bama Faustina and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by Harriet A. Jacobs - to bring forth the similarities between these two groups of subaltern women. Through the means of autobiography, both writers transmit their own experiences and denounce the gender, race and caste oppression endured. The subaltern theory coined by Antonio Gramsci and developed by Gayatri Spivak will be used to analyse these texts and the way they establish a link between two different worlds as well as how they share the common objective of making their narrators' exclus…

Un alma enferma. La experiencia religiosa de Wittgenstein a la luz de Las variedades de la experiencia religiosa de William James

2016

Este artículo defiende que Wittgenstein puede ser considerado como un alma enferma a la luz de Las variedades de la experiencia religiosa de William James. Asimismo, se muestra que de la lectura de este libro Wittgen- stein extrajo un ideal religioso que explica varios aspectos de su biografía, su hostilidad a la civilización burguesa y el sentido religioso de su filosofía. This article maintains that Wittgenstein can be seen as a sick soul in the terms of William James" The Varieties of the Religious Experience. It also holds that from the reading of this book Wittgenstein adopted a religious ideal that explains some aspects of his biography, his hostility to bourgeois civilization and the…

Tributo al professor Miguel F. Refojo, PhD, DSc (1928---2016)

2016

[Excerpt] July 21, 2016, Professor Miguel F. Refojo passed away at the age of 88 in Needham (Massachusetts). Saying that Miguel was one of the most renowned Spanish scientists of the second half of the XXth Century does not resembles its actual scientific size. Indeed, Miguel (or “Migüel” as most of his American friends pronounced his name) was a World Class scientist and inventor that will be forever linked to the advances in polymer science applied to the ophthalmic environment. His contributions in the biomedical field start “officially” in 1967 according to the National Library of Medline database (Pubmed-Medline). [...]

“Art as a Way to Life”: Bereavement and the Healing Power of Arts and Writing

2003

Reading, writing, music, and fine arts are widely acknowledged to have therapeutic value to those bereaved. Narratives of coping with the help of arts are commonly told. Yet, the experiences of bereavement and the healing powers of arts and writing are rarely discussed and analyzed in social sciences. In this article, I search for a way to study the therapeutic power of arts and writing on a personal level. Using empathy as a metaphorical tool, I read an unpublished autobiography about a mother's grief and coping process through my own experiences of bereavement. I strive for emotional verisimilitude and apply a poetic form when citing the autobiography to highlight the evocative tone of t…

Social Commentary as Biographical Work: Post-Communist Autobiographies in Latvia

2010

(2010). Social Commentary as Biographical Work: Post-Communist Autobiographies in Latvia. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 25, The Work of Life Writing, pp. 249-263.

De La Biografia Històrica a la Novel·la Cavalleresca: El Paper Dels Cavallers Francesos Al Victorial i Al Curial e Güelfa

2010

Between 1400 and 1412 (forty years before the writing of Curial e Guelfa), a reduced number of French and Catalan soldiers and knights —Boucicaut, Guillaume du Chastel and Pere Cervello— were involved in a series of chivalric warfare and military actions, which must have been the inspiration for the composition of some Catalan (Curial e Guelfa) and French fictions (Le petit Jehan of Saintre by Antoine de La Sale). Taking into account the references to these characters, places, and actions included in El Victorial —Count Pero Nino's Castilian biography—, this article tries to analyze the impact of the fame of these European knights, whose outstanding feats were widely celebrated by history, …

De la aljama a la corte: aproximación biográfica del médico converso valenciano Pere Pintor (<em>ca</em>. 1423-1508)

2019

This paper deals with the biography of the doctor from Valencia Pere Pintor, a member of a family of Valencian Jewish conversos. He was a doctor who, after training at the Estudi General in Lleida, worked for nearly thirty years in the city of Valencia, in the service of the municipal council, numerous noblemen, and the royal household. As a doctor, he became very successful and well known, and he amassed great wealth in parallel to his social advancement. All this was placed in jeopardy with the establishment, in 1481, of the court of the Holy Inquisition in the kingdom of Valencia, which fiercely attacked and repressed Pintor and his family. As a result of this he left Valencia and moved …

Le memorie ingarbugliate. Tensioni autobiografiche nell’Uva puttanella e in Contadini del Sud di Scotellaro

2016

L’intervento s’inserisce nel dibattito sull’autobiografismo di Scotellaro nelle sue due maggiori opere in prosa, arrivateci incomplete e non pronte per la pubblicazione:Contadini del Sud e, soprattutto, L’uva puttanella, che Scotellaro definiva in fase di preparazione un ‘‘romanzo’’. Se Contadini del Sud, nelle parti disponibili oggi, sembra anticipare alcuni esiti dell’attuale non-fiction per via dell’uso disinvolto del materiale documentario, del risalto dato alle testimonianze e alle ricognizioni sul campo, della creazione di veri e propri ‘‘personaggi’’ a tutto tondo che si esprimono direttamente sulla pagina, L’uva puttanella ha caratteristiche che ne sottolineano invece l’inattualita`…