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Lucian, a new Odysseus? : role and issue of a Homeric character in the work of Lucian of Samosata
2015
The aim of our thesis, which comes within the scope of considering the process of rewriting classic texts in the time period of the second sophistic, is to study the unique importance of Odysseus in the writings of Lucian of Samosata. At first, Odysseus is distinguished from Achilles, a character more monolithic who, even in Homer’s works is constructed in contrast to Odysseus. Moreover, from an isolated quote to intricate references, scattered to create echoes between works seemingly very different, the context in which Odysseus appears is more elaborate and subtler than that of Achilles. Hence, studying and comparing references to both heroes is sufficient to imply Odysseus’ primacy, asso…
Metaficció irònica a «Estremida memòria», de Jesús Moncada
2006
The reception of Jesús Moncada’s work at the beginning of his literary career was determined by the debate between «rural novel» and «urban novel», up to the point of directing its reading towards an elegiac dimension, at the expense of other distinctive traits of greater importance. In this sense, Moncada’s work has been understood, in an almost exclusive way, as a literary recording of the collective memory. The present article suggests a different reading of «Estremida memòria», in order to discover the essenciality of the irony in the author’s world, in this case, through the characteristic procedures of metafiction: metalepsi and metatextuality. The recreation of Mequinenza’s history i…
"Esse Malo Quam videri". Sangre y mérito en la orden de Malta a través de la literatura de ficción (Italia, siglos XVI-XVII)
2015
Textos de comunicaciones defendidas en la XIII Reunión Científica de la Fundación Española de Historia Moderna, previa evaluación ciega por pares.
Īrijas vēstures attēlojuma īpatnības Džozefa O'Konnora romānā "Jūras zvaigzne" un Sebastiana Barija romānā "Slepenie raksti"
2018
Šajā maģistra darbā tiek pētītas Īrijas vēstures attēlojuma īpatnības divos romānos – Džozefa O’Konnora romānā “Jūras zvaigzne” un Sebastiana Barija romānā “Slepenie raksti”. Darba mērķis ir analizēt veidus, kā šie romāni ataino nozīmīgus īru vēstures notikumus, Lielo badu un ceļu uz Īrijas neatkarību, kā arī veidus, kādos tiek problematizēta patiesa un objektīva attēlojuma iespējamība. Abi rakstnieki pēta tādus jēdzienus kā atmiņu, traumu, narativitāti un vēstures attēlojuma ticamību, uzsverot naratīvu veidošanas procesu un valodas nepietiekamību traumas atainošanai, kā arī aicina lasītājus kritiski apdomāt naratīvus, pētot dažādu faktoru ietekmi uz tiem.
Novel·les de ciència. La ciència i la tecnologia en la literatura
2014
La major part de la literatura sovint intenta oblidar el paper essencial que la ciencia i la tecnologia modernes juguen en la configuracio de les societats actuals i en la manera de viure-hi. Fou Jules Verne, fa ja uns 150 anys, qui va comencar a ser conscient de la necessitat que la ciencia i la tecnologia intervinguessin de manera activa en la narrativa moderna. Ho va anomenar la «novel·la de la ciencia». Mes endavant, el genere literari de la ciencia-fi ccio sembla haver assolit el paper d’aquella novel·la de la ciencia que Jules Verne va comencar. Amb aixo, la ciencia-ficcio es configura tambe com una narrativa adient per a l’aprenentatge del futur, ja que descriu diversos mons possible…
A triplet under focus:Innovation, design and the city
2018
Three key concept domains are considered and explored in a unitary framework. They are: innovation, the only possible response to global crises, aiming at transforming behaviours and practices towards systemic changes and transition; design, a way of creatively conceiving, developing and driving forward new practices for undertaking large scale transitions; and cities, seen as the environments where problems present themselves in the most socially relevant way and at the same time as key opportunities for testing and adopting forms of innovation which target global challenges. The chapter positions the three key concepts in relation to the most relevant academic references and to the curren…
Castron kastraatio : Pedro Juan Gutiérrezin proosa castrokommunistisen utopian romuttajana
2016
This dissertation explores how Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's fiction corresponds to the Castrocommunist utopia. The study has three goals: (1) to explain how Castro-communism has formed, altered and impacted on Cuban literature; (2) to investigate how Gutiérrez's fiction corresponds to the Castro-communist utopia and ideals; and (3) how his parodic (anti)detective story Nuestro GG en La Habana (2004) is based on and relates to Cuban socialist detective stories, Graham Greene's spy farce Our Man in Havana, Castro-communist historiography and the social, ideological and economic shifts in Cuban society during the 1990s. Previous studies on Gutiérrez's fiction have focused almost exclusively on the a…
Navigating the Transition from Higher Education to the Labour Market: A Wake-Up Call for University Students
2015
Abstract Many studies describing the transition from school to work focus on national patterns of labour market entry and in so doing, they often simplify the complex transition processes and job finding requirements involved. Our paper sets out to look at some transition obstacles and paths from higher education to the labour market from the graduates’ point of view as expressed during a recent event held at LBUS. We hold that in Romania the first job upon education is hampered by graduates across all disciplines having no or little work-based experience, thus marking national transition patterns/pathways as less compatible with those in other European countries.
Ivy and Bones: ruins and reversibility during the Blitz
2012
"Ivy and bones: ruins and reversibility during the Blitz" examines how the representation of the ruins of the Blitz is informed by the aesthetic and semiotic tension between abstraction, modernist purity and picturesque accretion. Subsequently building on the notion of reversibility, it explores the way wartime destruction and/or cultural decline is recorded as well as counteracted and compensated for in works by Elizabeth Bowen, Herbert Furst, Claire Leighton, Rose Macaulay, John Piper, and Virginia Woolf. The trope of reversibility provides a template to consider some of the sites where aesthetic conflicts are re-enacted, from blitzed spaces to the printed page as threatened modernist art…