Imatge i poder a partir de l’arquitectura : el cas de l’Edifici Singular A del Molí d’Espígol (Tornabous, l’Urgell)

La ciutat ibèrica del Molí d’Espígol va ser un important focus d’estudi en els anys ’70 i ’80. Des de fa uns anys s’està duent a terme el reestudi d’alguns aspectes d’aquest assentament ilerget, entre ells l’Edifici Singular A i els seu barri. Aquest treball vol ser un resum d’un estudi més extens i complex en què s’ha reinterpretat l’estratigrafia, s’ha estudiat el material i s’han plantejat noves hipòtesis de funcionalitat per a cada estança, especialment per a l’Edifici Singular A.The Iberian city of Molí d’Espígol was an important focus for Iberian studies in the years ' 70 and ' 80. Since 2006 a new project of restudy of some aspects of this Ilergete site has been carried out, including the Building A and its neighborhood structures and dwellings. This work wants to be a summary of a more extensive and complex study in which the stratigraphy has been reinterpreted, the material has been studied and new hypotheses about functionality for every area rised, specially for the Singular Building A.La ciudad ibérica del Molí d’Espígol fue un importante foco de estudio en los años ’70 y ’80. Desde hace unos años se está llevando a cabo el reestudio de algunos aspectos de este asentamiento ilergete, entre ellos el Edificio Singular A y su barrio. Este trabajo quiere ser un resumen de un estudio más extenso y complejo en el que se ha reinterpretado la estratigrafía, se ha estudiado el material y se han planteado nuevas hipótesis de funcionalidad para cada ámbito, especialmente para el Edificio Singular A

Escribiendo a Casandra: personajes dramáticos en la narrativa contemporánea

Christa Wolf’s Cassandra is the landmark for refigurations of the Cassandra myth in the contemporary novel. Yet close to its date of publication, Ursule Molinaro (1979), Christine Brooke-Rose (1984) and Hilary Bailey (1993) published their own novelistic reworkings of the Cassandra myth. The presence of the Cassandra myth in the British novel is in contrast with the fruitful reworkings of the Trojan princess in poetry and drama. From the nineteenth century onwards, refigurations of Cassandra in prose writings in English range from the feminist essay to the novel of customs and the fin-de-siècle New Women utopias. Works such as Florence Nightingale’s Cassandra, for example, show how the words of Priam’s daughter can be adapted to social vindications and develop into an obscure discourse which results in Broke-Rose’s postmodernist deconstruction. This chapter seeks to analyze Cassandra’s prophetic language in the three novels in contrast with other refigurations of the myth in English which reveal the cultural processes behind the construction of the narratives

El doble de la palabra. El mito de Eco en la literatura inglesa contemporánea

This article explores the figure of Echo in contemporary English literature focusing on works by A.S. Byatt, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Nicole Ward Jouve and Moniza Alvi among others. After an introduction on the secondary literature published on the nymph, Echo is analyzed under the perspective of opposites such as self/other, metropolis/colony, word/silence in poetry, theatre and short stories. Considered en masse, the works discussed in this article manifest how the reception of Echo is closely linked to the concept of the double in Western cultures.El objetivo de este artículo es el estudio de la figura de Eco en la literatura contemporánea escrita en lengua inglesa a partir de trabajos de A.S. Byatt, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Nicole Ward Jouve y Moniza Alvi entre otros. En poesía, teatro y relatos cortos, analizamos a Eco primero desde la literatura crítica publicada sobre la ninfa y posteriormente desde la perspectiva de oposiciones binarias uno/otro, metrópolis/colonia, palabra/silencio. Consideradas en conjunto, las obras revisadas en este artículo demuestran cómo la recepción del mito en la literatura contemporánea se encuentra estrechamente ligada a la evolución del concepto del doble en la cultura occidental

The Voice of Cassandra: Florence Nightingale's Cassandra (1852) and the Victorian Woman

In an undated letter to her sister Parthenope (c. 1844), Florence Nightingale wrote:"What is life? It cannot be merely a gaining of experience it is freedom, voluntary force, free-will, & therefore must be a hard fought battle in order to make a choice, there must be evil & good to choose from" (Vicinus & Nergaard 1990: 25). As a victim aware of the social constraints that Victorian women had to tackle in their development as independent citizens, Nightingale fought for further education, for a life outside marriage and for the establishment of midwifery as a respected profession. In such a gallant endeavour, the most passionate battle which she undertook was to acquire a voice which would enable her to make her own choices and be heard and considered both in the public and private spheres of her time

New Woman and New Electras: Approaches to Classical Mythology in Victorian Burlesque Theatre.

This paper seeks to analyze Francis Talfourd’s Electra in a New Electric Light (1859) as related to the Victorian stereotype of the strong-minded woman. After a brief introduction on the links between nineteenth-century burlesque and the social history of women in Victorian times, I shall focus on the figure of Electra as epitome of late nineteenth-century representations of New Women. El objetivo de este trabajo es el estudio de Electra in a New Electric Light (1859) de Francis Talfourd a partir del estereotipo victoriano de la strong-minded woman. Para ello, tras comentar la relación existente entre el teatro burlesco decimonónico de tema clásico y la historia social de la mujer a lo largo del siglo, nos centraremos en la figura de Electra, y en cómo, acompañada de otras heroínas clásicas, anticipa la representación de la Nueva Mujer de finales de siglo

Mythic Women in Victorian England: Cassandra and Florence Nightingale

[Abstract] This paper seeks to examine the transmission of Cassandra in Victorian England as a prelude to subsequent reworkings that consider the myth the epitome of the silenced discourse of women. Florence Nightingale’s relation to the Cassandra myth both in her personal life and in her essay Cassandra (1852) configures the heroine as a model to the vindication of the rights of women. Modern constructions of the myth read it as an archetype of the appropriation of the patriarchal discourse by gender minorities