British Periodicals and Spanish Literature

With the main goal of contributing to a wider understanding of the presence of Spanish literature and culture in British Romanticism, this book focuses on the instrumental role played by the British periodical press in the Anglo-Spanish literary and cultural exchange in the first half of the nineteenth century. All the chapters bear witness to the contrasting and varied perception of everything Spanish, the different strategies of exploration, appropriation and rewriting of its cultural and literary tradition. Besides, they all reveal the intricate web of cultural, political and religious factors tinging the discourse of British Romantic literary critics and authors on the Spanish cultural capital

Re-defining Anglo-Argentine literature: from travel writing to travelling identities

This study proposes a definition of Anglo-Argentine literature, a literary corpus that has not been explicitly defined, and provides a reading list of Anglo-Argentine works on the basis of that definition. The research is based on the presupposition that Anglo-Argentine texts can be used to contribute to an intercultural approach to language and literature teaching in the Argentine higher education context. Such texts can encourage reflection on how writing on Argentina in English has contributed to constructing Argentina's multiple identities. Therefore, compiling the titles that make up the corpus of Anglo-Argentine writing, making it available and analysing it critically is the contribution that this thesis aims to make. To make the findings available to the Argentine ELT (English Language Teaching) community, a webpage accompanies the thesis: http://claudiaferradas.net. The site provides access to the reading list with links to digital publications, intercultural materials on Anglo-Argentine texts and critical articles derived from the thesis. The compilation of texts does not aim to be exhaustive; it is a critical presentation of the titles identified in terms of the intercultural objectives stated above. As a result, not all titles are discussed in the same degree of detail and some are simply mentioned on the reading list. Two works are selected as 'focus texts' for in-depth analysis and all the works identified are grouped into 'series' with common denominators, which may be thematic or connected to the context of production. As regards the analytical focus, the thesis traces the construction of the other in early texts and how this representation is reinforced or modified in later works. The other is understood both as the unfamiliar landscape and the native inhabitants: both original inhabitants ('Indians' in the literature) and Gauchos. Urban white creoles are also part of the discussion when the narrator's gaze focuses on them. The theoretical framework for this analysis is based upon post-colonial theory and the notion of transculturation. Finally, the thesis extends the concept of Anglo-Argentine literature to works produced in English by Argentine writers whose mother tongue is not English and who do not have English-speaking ancestors. This leads to a reconsideration of the definition initially proposed to approach Anglo- Argentine literature as a fluid third place, a subversion of the binary implied by the adjective 'Anglo-Argentine' that embraces travelling identities in constant process of construction in contact with otherness

Spatializing Galician Music at the International Festival of the Celtic World of Ortigueira

This dissertation inquires into the process of locating socio-musical relations and practices, pertaining to Galician Music, in the context of the International Festival of the Celtic World of Ortigueira (1978 to the present). It aims to show, first of all, that the festival itself was a result of the process of spatialization of Galician Music in post-Franco Ortigueira. This process was led and developed by the members of the Escola de Gaitas de Ortigueira, a grassroots, free of charge music school founded in 1975, made up of voluntary teachers, children, and young people from this town. Drawing on anthropologist Setha Low’s definition of spatialization as the process of "locating, both physically and conceptually, social relations and social practice in social space" (1999, 111), I argue that the initial process of spatialization of Galician Music at the IFCW (1978-1983), together with the broader process of spatialization of Galician Music in Ortigueira, produced an alternative sense of locality in Santa Marta de Ortigueira. Although pretty much absent from present-day Ortigueira, this “alternative locality” is still embedded in the collective meaning of the festival, and local Galician-music performers are struggling to maintain it. Contrasting the historical emergence of the IFCW with the present state of the festival (2011-2013), this work expounds on the changing process of spatialization of Galician Music within the IFCW, highlighting, though, its continuity as a practice of resistance.Esta tése investiga o processo de localização das relações e práticas sócio-musicais, pertencentes à música galega, no contexto do Festival Internacional do Mundo Celta de Ortigueira (IFCW) (1978 até o presente). Pretende mostrar, antes de tudo, que o próprio festival foi resultado do processo de espacialização da música galega em Ortigueira no período pós-Franquista. Este processo foi liderado e desenvolvido pelos membros da Escola de Gaitas de Ortigueira, uma escola de música de base, fundada em 1975, formada por professores voluntários, crianças e jovens deste povoado. Baseada na definição de espacialização da antropóloga Setha Low, como o processo de "localizar, tanto física quanto conceptualmente, as relações sociais e as práticas sociais no espaço social" (1999, 111), argumento que o processo inicial de espacialização da MúsicaGalega no IFCW (1978-1983), juntamente com o processo mais amplo de espacialização da música galega em Ortigueira, produziu um sentido alternativo de localidade em Santa Marta de Ortigueira. De fato, o IFCW repetiu e reafirmou a possibilidade de ser local, e diferente. Apesar de estar quase ausente da atual Ortigueira, esta "localidade alternativa" ainda está inserida no sentido coletivo do festival, e os artistas locais de música galega estão a lutar para mantê-lo. Contrastando o surgimento histórico do IFCW com o estado atual do festival (2011-2013), este trabalho aborda o processo de mudança da espacialização da Música Galega dentro do IFCW, destacando, entretanto, a sua continuidade como prática de resistência

Handbook of Easy Languages in Europe

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Words in Space and Time

With forty-two extensively annotated maps, this atlas offers novel insights into the history and mechanics of how Central Europe’s languages have been made, unmade, and deployed for political action. The innovative combination of linguistics, history, and cartography makes a wealth of hard-to-reach knowledge readily available to both specialist and general readers. It combines information on languages, dialects, alphabets, religions, mass violence, or migrations over an extended period of time. The story first focuses on Central Europe’s dialect continua, the emergence of states, and the spread of writing technology from the tenth century onward. Most maps concentrate on the last two centuries. The main storyline opens with the emergence of the Western European concept of the nation, in accord with which the ethnolinguistic nation-states of Italy and Germany were founded. In the Central European view, a “proper” nation is none other than the speech community of a single language. The Atlas aspires to help users make the intellectual leap of perceiving languages as products of human history and part of culture. Like states, nations, universities, towns, associations, art, beauty, religions, injustice, or atheism—languages are artefacts invented and shaped by individuals and their groups