Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Latin Library: a Historiographical Approach

Este texto tentará delimitar e definir o tipo de aproximação de Elizabeth Barrett Browning (EBB) ao latim e à literatura latina a partir da análise da sua biblioteca pessoal. Desta maneira, observar-se-á o processo de aprendizagem de EBB, tendo em atenção tanto os manuais e textos académicos que utilizou como as amizades e contactos pessoais que a acompanharam na sua aproximação aos estudos clássicos. Estes dados permitirão avaliar até que ponto o interesse de EBB por esta matéria corresponde a uma opção pessoal ou foi determinado por outras circunstânciasThis article seeks to delimit and define Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s (EBB) type of approach to Latin and Latin literature, drawing on the analysis of her personal library. We will therefore examine EBB’s learning process, bearing in mind both the manuals and academic textbooks she used, as well as the friends and personal connections who guided her in her approach to Classical studies. This information will allow us to judge whether EBB’s interest in this matter corresponds to a personal option or was rather determined by other circumstancesEn este artículo se tratará de delimitar y definir el tipo de aproximación de Elizabeth Barrett Browning (EBB) al latín y a la literatura latina a partir del análisis de su biblioteca personal. De esta manera, se observará el proceso de aprendizaje de EBB, atendiendo tanto a los manuales y los textos académicos que utilizó como a las amistades y los contactos personales que la acompañaron en su acercamiento a los estudios clásicos. Estos datos permitirán valorar hasta qué punto el interés de EBB por esta materia responde a una opción personal o está determinado por otras circunstancia

Work, Professional Development And Teaching Commitment: Deconstructing Meanings

The paper we present is part of the research project "The professional identity of teacher studies", that we are development for last 3 years. The third phase of this research put the focus on the experience of job placement of novel teachers, graduated no more than 5 years. We work with focal groups and professional experience and teacher education accounts of teachers implied in this research. Also, for any teachers, we do biographical interviews to deepen on processes of construction of professional identity. In this paper we present the Ana Belen History, a female teacher of pre-school education with an experience of 4 years in school, working in a urban school with students in risk of exclusion. This school have a educative project, commitment with the neighbourhood, joint with the community and other social groups. Ana Belen story, from professional perspective, is linked with the social politic and educational commitment of this school. Our interest is focused in the comprehension of professional identity that Ana Belen has gone forging along her personal story and how her education and job placement has contributed for it. Also we are interested in knowing how early professional experiences have influenced in her professional development as teacher. Specifically we ask ourselves about what influence have for her professional identity, that her career starts in this particular school. In consequence, this paper leads us to question the current teacher education model. In particular we are interested on the kind of professional experience that have place and, so, the kinds of commitments that enables. We understand that frameworks in which professional education and experience have place are relevant to enable more or less transformer understandings about teaching. From conceptual perspective this paper adopts a socio-critical point of view (Gergen, 1985; Kincheloe, 2001; Wenger, 1988, etc.). We understand that teaching has to be analysing according work contexts and personal stories of teachers, because we face processes historical and collective building. Teaching is the result of action of their actors, over time, and in specific stage. So, with this research we intend to break with the old gap between pre and in-service education. We think that both of them are part of the same process and are formed according similar logical; although scenes change. We understand that they are part of a continuous process in which is giving sense to different and complex settings where teaching profession is built, but they are not differenced and independent stages. The teacher work, so, is subject to particular conditions, generated from such different fields as institutional, corporative, cultural, social, political, moral, etc. It displays a kaleidoscopic view on space, time, context, ... These are the axis in which the teaching is formed, from the complexity and heterogeneity. How this complexity is articulated results in different ways to face the teacher work, according different personal and professional stories. The teacher acts with subjects in instituted contexts from relationships he has with them, which gives a situated and contingent character. But, these contexts are strongly structured and ruled according centralized and generalized positions; which is, at the very least, paradoxical. Possibly, from our point of view, same of the crisis of teaching have to explain from this paradoxical perspective and the conflict, which characterize this job (Rivas, Leite y Cortés, 2011)Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

El mito de Frankenstein en series de televisión contemporáneas: Monstruosidad, rebelión y maternidad en la construcción de la identidad del siglo XXI

[ES] Los estudios de caso que integran el presente monográfico analizan muestras de las diversas transformaciones que se han venido llevando a cabo en el género gótico desde los años 70 hasta la actualidad en los ámbitos de la ficción, las artes visuales y otras formas de cultura popular. Se hace especial énfasis en los patrones de influencia, apropiación y reformulación, así como en la continuidad del imaginario gótico en la posmodernidad. Se invita así a la reflexión sobre las ansiedades del mundo contemporáneo y su reflejo o expresión en las diferentes manifestaciones artísticas y literarias del género del terror.[EN] The case studies in this volume assess the transformations undergone by the Gothic genre since the 1970s until today within the fields of fiction, the visual arts and other forms of popular culture. Special emphasis falls into the patterns of influence, appropriation and reformulation in the works under assessment, as well as the durability of gothic imagery in postmodernity. We thereby invite readers to reflect on how these visual and literary works echo, reflect or give voice to the anxieties in our contemporary society

Dámaris Romero González, Israel Muñoz Gallarte & Gabriel Laguna Mariscal (eds.), Visitors from beyond the Grave: Ghosts in World Literature, Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra/Coimbra University Press, 2019, 300 págs. ISSN: 21828814

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Degree of roasting of carob flour affecting the properties of gluten-free cakes and cookies

Carob flour is a product rich in fibre obtained from by-products of the locust bean gum extraction processing. The flour is commercialised with different degrees of roasting in order to improve its organoleptic characteristics. In this study, carob flour with three different roasting degrees was used to replace rice flour (15%) in gluten-free cakes and cookies. The influence of this replacement was studied on the psychochemical characteristics and acceptability of the final products. The incorporation of carob flour increased the viscosity of cake batters and increased the solid elastic-like behaviour of the cookie doughs, indicating a stronger interaction among the formula ingredients. The inclusion of carob flour, with a low time of roasting, did not lead to any significant differences in the specific volume and hardness of the cakes, but reduced cake staling and the thickness and width of the cookies. Darker colours were obtained when carob flour was incorporated into the product. The acceptability of cakes was only reduced with the addition of highly roasted carob flour, while in the case of cookies there was a decline in the acceptability of all carob flour cookies, which was mostly perceived with the highest roasting degree, something mainly attributed to the bitter taste of the products.Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (Project AGL2014-52928-C2

The relationship between inflation rates in advanced economies

Artículo de revistaThis article analyses the link between the changes in and the drivers of inflation in a broad range of advanced economies, with special emphasis on those of the euro area. Inflation rates are seen to be highly synchronised across countries, especially in the euro area economies, reflecting their close economic and financial links and the common monetary policy. Also, the comovement of inflation is found to be a phenomenon that tends to be more visible in the medium and long-term. At the same time, the synchronisation of core inflation, which is based on products with more stable prices, is seen to be limited. The interdependence of headline inflation, by contrast, is significantly higher and has increased considerably in recent years. The drivers of inflation, according to New Keynesian Phillips curve models, such as inflation expectations, the cyclical position and external prices, also help to explain the relationship between inflation rates in advanced economies and especially in those of the euro area

Inflation interdependence in advanced economies

Aunque la literatura sobre el grado de comovimiento del PIB entre países es prolífica, existe poca evidencia sobre la interdependencia de la inflación. En este trabajo, se analizan los comovimientos de la inflación en un amplio conjunto de economías avanzadas, prestando especial atención a los países del área del euro. Los resultados confirman que el grado de interdependencia de la inflación entre las economías avanzadas es bastante elevado, pero es todavía mayor entre los países de la zona del euro, que tienen fuertes vínculos comerciales y comparten una política monetaria común. Asimismo, el componente energético muestra el mayor grado de sincronización, lo que puede reflejar la existencia de shocks comunes en el precio del petróleo. Un resultado inesperado, que se mantiene robusto frente a distintas especificaciones empíricas, es que el grado de interdependencia de la inflación subyacente en su conjunto es muy reducido. Este resultado se mantiene tanto para los bienes industriales no energéticos como para los servicios. Por último, identificamos que la sincronización de la inflación parece estar ligada a las variables recogidas en los modelos neokeynesianos de curva de Phillips de economía abierta y en los modelos de mark-up de preciosAlthough there is a vast literature on GDP comovement across countries, there is scant evidence on inflation interdependence. We analyze inflation comovements across a wide set of advanced economies and across the subset of euro area countries. Some of our findings are expected, such as the fact that inflation interdependence among advanced economies is quite relevant, but is higher among euro area countries, which show strong trade links and a share common monetary policy, or the fact that inflation synchronization among countries is highest for energy prices, reflecting common oil shocks. We also find a robust puzzle: core inflation interdependence is fairly low and this result holds for both core goods and services. Inflation synchronization seems to be particularly linked to comovements in driving variables of open economy new Keynesian Phillips curve and mark-up pricing model