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The Influence of the Lotus Flower Theme on the Perception of Contemporary Urban Architecture
2021
We live in the visual culture times, when images continuously and daily are transferring some information. A visual message is also an indispensable element of architecture, in the semantic layer as an aesthetic value, sometimes fulfilling a narrative function by means of a symbol, which is an international visual code. Most of the symbols, hidden in painting, sculpture, or architecture, are elements of nature. The article discusses examples of architecture whose form is based on a lotus flower. Unification of urban landscapes leads to a decrease in the value of aesthetic impressions; therefore, the unique architecture builds the unique identity of the place.
DRÁCULA AND THE LITERARY CRITERIA SPECIALIZED IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE (1972-2017)
2018
The present article strives to analyse, in a necessarily synthetic way, the main interpretive currents that have led to the study of Dracula, the novel published by Bram Stoker in 1897. The objective is to better capture what academic interests this novel has generated and how it has gone from being considered a mediocre product to becoming a classic of contemporary literature. Beginning in the seventies, I will expose the evolution of the critique and its most important contributions, focusing on those works that have represented a turning point in the studies on the novel. I hope to complete a broad enough overview of the evolution and state of research around Dracula.
Post memory and cinematic affect in The Midwife
2017
The Second World War has proved a rich source of inspiration for fiction films worldwide. The Finnish fiction film The Midwife (Kätilö, Antti J. Jokinen, 2015) is aimed at an international audience with a story that takes place in the context of the Lapland War in Finland in 1944. The film tells of a romantic relationship between a local woman and a member of the German army, in a highly affective manner. This article argues that the film downplays elements that might have interested the national, or local, audience, and that it privileges affect over knowledge. To bring out the film’s transnational character, the article begins by analysing it in the context of national, or local, and glob…
El «quillotrador donaire» de Caldeira: comicidad e ingenio de un gracioso itinerante
2020
La reparticion de la comicidad en Mari Hernandez, la gallega procede esencialmente de la duplice escenificacion de los espacios dramaticos que connotan la accion, revelando una distribucion fragmentaria que muestra, por un lado, el recurso a la comicidad rustica, por otro la presencia constante del gracioso. Este ensayo analiza especificamente las modalidades de expresion de lo comico que caracterizan a Caldeira, cuyo personaje se define de manera convencional a traves de un recurso sistematico a los topicos mas habituales del papel risible y que se expresan segun los codigos de la comicidad que la comedia aurea va elaborando en su progresiva evolucion.
Reseña de Fernández Mosquera, Santiago, «Calderón: texto, reescritura, significado y representación», Madrid/Frankfurt, Iberoamericana/Vervuert , 201…
2017
Review of Fernández Mosquera, Santiago, Calderón: texto, reescritura, significado y representación, Madrid/Frankfurt am Main, Iberoamericana/Vervuert , 2015, 354 pp. ISBN: 978-84-8489-897-9 (Iberoamericana) / 978-3-95487-438-5 (Vervuert)
«Pues reprimamos / esta fiera condición»: márgenes para la rebeldía en la tragedia del Siglo de Oro
2018
La tragedia surge en el entorno griego pero evoluciona hacia parametros tematicos diferentes acordes con el universo simbolico de la epoca que la acoge, aunque su arquitectura formal permanezca pese a variar los acentos de sus lecturas. Asi, en el Siglo de Oro, la fatalidad sera sustituida por la responsabilidad, que ya no recae en los dioses sino en el personaje. Mas dotando al heroe de libre albedrio, convirtiendolo en artifice de su destino y haciendo de la divinidad un testigo de las faltas y no un agente de las mismas, la tragedia barroca abrio un margen para la rebeldia que encontro distintos resquicios por los que colarse. Analizaremos esos margenes por los que transitan las conducta…
Reimagining cultural memory of the arctic in the graphic narratives of Oqaluttuaq
2021
The Greenlandic oral story-telling tradition, Oqaluttuaq, meaning “history,” “legend,” and “narrative,” is recognized as an important entry point into Arctic collective memory. The graphic artist Nuka K. Godtfredsen and his literary and scientific collaborators have used the term as the title of graphic narratives published from 2009 to 2018, and focused on four moments or ‘snippets’ from Greenland’s history (from the periods of Saqqaq, late Dorset, Norse settlement, and European colonization). Adopting a fragmentary and episodic approach to historical narrativization, the texts frame the modern European presence in Greenland as one of multiple migrations to and settlements in the Artic, ra…
The Scent of a Book : The Book and the Environments of Reading
2020
Decolonising European minds through Heritage
2019
By analysing three museums exhibition, this article investigates how the history of European colonialism is approached in an attempt to identify potential for decolonising European minds. The case studies consist of a temporary exhibition (2016–2017) concerning German colonialism at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin; the permanent exhibition of the House of European History in Brussels and the permanent exhibition of the Sagres Promontory (Portugal), a heritage site related to the conquest of the Americas. The analysis will focus on three aspects: 1) acknowledgement of connections between colonial histories and their contemporary influences in and for Europe; 2) the role of histor…
Classification et chronologie de bas fourneaux de réduction du fer à usage unique au sud-ouest du Niger
2016
In southwestern Niger, near Niamey, several thousand single-use bloomery furnaces have been mapped and identified. The archaeological study of approximately 30 furnaces and their slag reveals the existence of four methods for iron smelting: three types of pit furnace and one slag-tapping type. The slag pit furnaces are clearly differentiated by the form and volume of their pits. All slag-tapping furnaces drain off slag through small openings. The slag is tapped either vertically or laterally. According to radiocarbon dates, the smelting activity developed in the 2 nd century AD and intensified through to the 14 th century. It continued to evolve until the middle of the 20 th century. The lo…