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Making Groupwork Work: Ensuring Instructional Efficacy In The Student Teaching Internship Through The Implementation Of Complex Instruction
The Functions of Landscape in Jorge Isaacs and Soledad Acosta de Samper
Jorge Isaacs\u27s MarĂa (1867) and Soledad Acosta de Samper\u27s âUn crimenâ (1869) encode landscape in ways that establish or undermine, respectively, hierarchies of class. Isaacs and Acosta de Samper represent landscapes as conveyors of meaning about relationships of dominance and subjugation, and they show how landscapes impose restrictions on their inhabitants in their narratives. Using concepts from cultural geography, this article argues that while Isaacs\u27s text seeks to reproduce existing social conditions of inequality via a nostalgic reproduction of the landscape, Acosta de Samper\u27s story calls into question the complicity of landscape with power and undermines the idyllic, pastoral narrative that MarĂa seeks to advance