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Finding Lollius : empathy, textual knowledge, and the ending of Troilus and Criseyde
textThe ending of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde has been a frequent source of dissatisfaction and confusion. After five full books centered on a doomed love between pagans, the final stanzas suddenly shift to an orthodox Christian rejection of worldly desire. Whether damning or praising the ending, critics generally recognize it as radically different from the lines preceding it. This report seeks to identify the root of that difference, and to explain its effect on the reading experience. The narrator of Troilus and Criseyde, a character in his own right, manipulates his putative source text--Lollius--to highlight the gaps left in his narrative. These gaps, in turn, constrict our perspective on the poem, preventing us from adopting either the Godlike Boethian viewpoint the Troilus appears to recommend or the melancholic attitude of the titular lovers. Instead, our point of identification is the narrator, who has read, as he persistently reminds us, a book that we cannot. Thus, even when the Troilus is read to the end, it feels incomplete. I ground this reading in both narratology and cognitive science, and illustrate it by examining two early printed "completions" of Chaucer's text: Wynkyn de Worde's colophon and Robert Henryson's Testament of Cresseid.Englis
Editorial: Relevance Theory and Intercultural Communication Problems
This editorial to the special issue of RiL dedicated to relevance theory and problems of intercultural communication addresses the general requirements that a theory of communication must meet to be applicable to the analysis of intercultural communication. Then it discusses criticism levelled against Griceâs theory of conversational implicature and Brown and Levinsonâs theory of politeness on the grounds that these theories were not universal enough to be applied to all data. Finally, it offers some remarks on the applicability of relevance theory to intercultural pragmatics
Na LĂČnia Guiu de Maria-AntĂČnia Oliver: la profanaciĂł d'un espai literari en catalĂ vedat a la dona
ComunicaciĂł «Na LĂČnia Guiu de Maria-AntĂČnia Oliver: la profanaciĂł d'un espai literari en catalĂ vedat a la dona», presentada en el «II Seminari Internacional d'Estudis Transversals: D'objecte a subjecte, la dona a travĂ©s de l'art i de la literatura en les cultures mediterrĂ nies»; organitzat pel Grup d'Estudis Transversals (Universitat d'Alacant) i Traverses Ăquipe de Recherche (UniversitĂ© Paris 8); celebrat els dies 15 i 16 de desembre de 2007 a la Seu UniversitĂ ria Ciutat d'Alacant
Recompte hivernal d'aus aquĂ tiques i limĂcoles a les Balears, gener 1993
Winter census of Wildfowl and Waders in the Balearic Islands, Januarv 1993. The census was carried out from the 13th to the 26th of January. The coverage was good, with 52 places visited. The resulting figure is 15.142 birds. belonging to 52 species. Most common species were Fu(rca atea, with 3.227 individuals; Anas platyrrh ynchos, with 2.046; Vanellus vanellus, with 1.919; Gullinula chloropus, with 1.046; Anas crecca, with 912; Podiceps nigricollis, with 685; and Altas clypeata, with 677. Most important arcas were s'Albufera (Mallorca), with 6.396 birds. s'Albufera des Grau (Menorca), with 2.420 birds, and Salobrar de Campos, with 1.935
Joan Puig i Ferreter: RessonĂ ncies dâun exili
ComunicaciĂł «Joan Puig i Ferreter: RessonĂ ncies dâun exili», presentada en el «Congreso Interdisciplinario Discurso sobre fronteras â Fronteras del discurso: Literatura, pensamiento y cultura del ĂĄmbito ibĂ©rico e iberoamericano»; organitzat per lâInstitut Cervantes de VarsĂČvia/CracĂČvia i el Dept. de Filologia RomĂ nica de la Uniwersytet Im. Adama Mickiewicza; celebrat els dies 22, 23 i 24 de novembre de 2007 al Collegium Jowita de la Universitat Adam Mickiewicz de Poznan (PolĂČnia)
Bienes comunes, nuevos cercamientos y economĂa polĂtica popular
This paper discusses the growing importance that the so-called âcommonsâ are gaining in the sphere of cultural creation. To do so, it critically analyses two important analogies that have appeared during the recent years: the first one, between the ânaturalâ and âdigital commonsâ, and the second, between the âoldâ and the ânew digital enclosuresâ. The paper demonstrates that their similitudes are prominent, although both comparisons have to be carefully studied. The main goal is to present the âdigital commonsâ as those devices capable to shape a sort of âPopular political economy of pro-commonâ. Throughout a double approach (the technicallegal and the political-economical one), the paper highlights the need to have an institutional environment robust enough to prevent the effects of new enclosures in contemporary creation and the dissemination of culture.Este artĂculo discute la creciente importancia que estĂĄn adoptando los llamados âbienes comunesâ en el ĂĄmbito de la creaciĂłn cultural. Para ello se discuten crĂticamente dos importantes analogĂas que han emergido en los Ășltimos años: la primera, entre los âbienes comunes naturalesâ y los âdigitalesâ y la segunda, entre los âviejosâ y los ânuevos cercamientos digitalesâ. El artĂculo demuestra que, si bien es cierto que ambas comparaciones deben abordarse con cautela, las similitudes entre ambas son notables. El objetivo es presentar los âbienes comunes digitalesâ como aquellos dispositivos capaces de conformar una suerte de âEconomĂa polĂtica popular del pro-comĂșnâ. Para ello, y a travĂ©s de una doble aproximaciĂłn (la tĂ©cnica-jurĂdica y la polĂtica-econĂłmica), el articulo remarca la necesidad de contar con un contexto institucional lo suficientemente robusto como para limitar los efectos de los nuevos cercamientos sobre la actual creaciĂłn y difusiĂłn cultural
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