Un incendio invisible de Sara Mesa como una crítica implícita al «Homo consumericus»

The paper is an attempt at shedding light on the issues related to the dystopian vision of postmodern society metonymically represented by Vado, an imaginary city, in the novel Un incendio invisible written by Sara Mesa. This abandoned urban space causes us to reflect on crucial topics in postmodern society, such as incorporation into unknown place, redefinition of the concept of parenthood, liquid and perverse love, social inequalities, abandoned elders, consumption, role of shopping malls and their significance, human alienation, all phenomena that we find in the novel. The city of Vado plays symbolic role in that piece, hence its devastation and ruin show a close connection with the consumer society and the actions of Homo consumericus. We base our analysis on the philosophical and sociological postulates of Gilles Lipovetsky, Zygmunt Bauman, Erich Fromm and anthropological one of Marc Augé, as well as on the proposal of how to read a novel by Javier del Prado Biezma in order to describe the nature of all these mentioned problems and expose the criticism of Homo consumericus concealed in the novel.The paper is an attempt at shedding light on the issues related to the dystopian vision of postmodern society metonymically represented by Vado, an imaginary city, in the novel Un incendio invisible written by Sara Mesa. This abandoned urban space causes us to reflect on crucial topics in postmodern society, such as incorporation into unknown place, redefinition of the concept of parenthood, liquid and perverse love, social inequalities, abandoned elders, consumption, role of shopping malls and their significance, human alienation, all phenomena that we find in the novel. The city of Vado plays symbolic role in that piece, hence its devastation and ruin show a close connection with the consumer society and the actions of Homo consumericus. We base our analysis on the philosophical and sociological postulates of Gilles Lipovetsky, Zygmunt Bauman, Erich Fromm and anthropological one of Marc Augé, as well as on the proposal of how to read a novel by Javier del Prado Biezma in order to describe the nature of all these mentioned problems and expose the criticism of Homo consumericus concealed in the novel

Al jugar con las palabras se multiplican mundos - analisis de los juegos literarios y de lenguaje en "Tres tristes tigres" de Guillermo Cabrera Infante

This article can be classified as the one belonging to the broad area of “literary and language plays on words’’ due to its multilevel interpretation of the ludic character of literature in the novel entitled Tres tristes tigres, written by the Cuban writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante, who makes the everyday language of the Havana at the end of the 1950s the object of a play on words, and matter at the same time, which does a literary recreation through its poetisation of the colloquial language. The language, as well as literature, is a pure play on words, which, in turn, destroys in the T T T (Three Trapped Tigers) the traditional canon of the novel and creates a work of literature open to multiple interpretations and which needs an active poliglot reader able to descipher the net of allusions and references to other literary works. The mechanism of the literary play on words is based on parody (of the language itself, of the work of other Cuban writers, of American cabaret, of business celebrities, of the stories related by the characters present in the novel, and of their clumsy English-Spanish translation), on a variety of different points of view that turn the novel into a polyphonic one, on the presence of a stereotype and irony. Moreover, the play on words (anagrams, palindromes, neologisms, polysemy and ambiguity) undergoes an analysis characterised by a polyperspective interpretation of the novel. While talking about the innovative character of the novel, being an example of a new Latin American novel, we present its above-mentioned features and we also do quite a detailed analysis of one of its chapters entitled in Spanish Los visitantes, which best reflects the principal intention of Cabrera Infante: to make everyday language the main character by means of playing with it, and in this way to create a multitude of realities

La radiografia del mundo marinero gallego en la narrativa de Manuel Rivas

The aim of the article is to present the notion of Galician landscape in its duality that consists of an interior habitat, populated by Galician peasant farmers, and of a coast, lived by people whose life is determined by the Atlantic Ocean (seamen, fishermen, etc.). In the present paper we focus on the second ones in their day to day fight with an hostile environment, on their exceptionally strong characters, so different from the Galician interior inhabitants, which are described by Manuel Rivas in his story books: Ella, maldita alma, ¿Qué me quieres, amor?, La mano del emigrante that will be analyzed

Poesia visual de Jose Juan Tablada

The present article focuses on the visual poetry o f the Mexican poet José Juan Tablada who is one of the most important precursors of the avant-garde in the twentieth century. As numerous critics have remarked, José Juan Tablada made several major contributions to modern poetry in Mexico. Although Tablada is generally credited with having introduced Latin American poets to the Japanese haiku, he was also responsible for encouraging them to experiment with visual poetry. As a result of a visit to Japan in 1900, José Juan Tablada became interested in haiku tradition and in Japanese ideograms which inspirited him to create his own poetry in the style of oriental work but adopted to the Latin American perspective of his imagination and to the rules of the Spanish language. It appears that Tablada's attention was focused mainly on the experiments of the modern French Imagist poets and was influenced by Apollinaire's Calligrammes, a problem that we partially intend to explain in the present article spotlighting some occurrences, but finally we conclude that both poets must have been inspired by the previous form of visual poetry, known to the ancient Greeks as technopaigneia and to the Romans as carmina figurata, or by the pre-Hispanic ideographic forms; in this subject we consider a long list of possible inspirations. The principal idea o f this paper is to analyse the visual poetry of Tablada from the perspective of its interdisciplinary character, where images and words situate his poems in a spatial configuration. Therefore we have concentrated our attention on two books of poems published in Caracas, the first one entitled Un día... Poemas sintéticos edited in 1919, and the second one, Li-Po y otros poemas, published in 1920, as an example of the so called visual poetry or ideographic poems, a denomination more appropriate for the second collection. To sum up, Tablada was an innovator, though he did borrow ideas like most writers do. His haikus are original, accompanied with his self-made drawings, and have a distinct Mexican flavor containing local references to flora, fauna o Mexican culture — characteristics that we underline in this paper while also providing a general overview of some theoretical aspects related to Literature and Art

W obliczu (post)prawdy, czyli inna historia frankistowskiego Patronato de Protección a la Mujer w esejach Consuelo Garcíi del Cid Guerry

The paper is an attempt at shedding light on the unknown actions of Spanish Board for the Protection of Women. In Francoist Spain, this organization was originally founded to control and to dignify morality of “fallen women” in order to reeducate them in accordance with the National Catholicism ideology propagated by the Francoists. Although the aim of this powerful institution was to reeducate young women, many of them were hidden away in interments and suffered from different kinds of abuse. The violence applied against them was covered up and their voices silenced by authorities. The history of young women, completely unknown among Spanish society, was revealed and denounced by García del Cid Guerra. A former victim, she is the author of three political essays: Ruega por nosotras (2015), Las desterradas hijas de Eva (2012), and La niña del rincón (2018), books on which this article is based to present a different history of the Board for the Protection of Women, remembered by its young victims

Los modelos de mujer y las sexualidades disidentes en las novelas de Lucia Etxebarria "Amor, curiosidad, prozac y dudas y Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes"

The Women’s Models and Alternative Sexuality in the Novels of Lucía Etxebarria Love, Curiosity, Prozac and Doubts and Beatrice and the Heavenly Bodies. The main aim of this article is to present ways in which a controversial Spanish novelist, Lucía Etxebarria, expresses and subverts traditional social models and sexual identity of Spanish women at the end of the twentieth century by creation of female protagonists such as a promiscuouos girl, a workaholic executive or a housewife that tend to deconstruct socially normative conceptualizations of their roles and sexuality and they search for alternative constructions of feminine identity, both social and sexual one. It seems that a lesbian model of relationship is alternative to a monogamous compulsory heterosexuality

La perspectiva humorística en la literatura gallega como expresión del Volksgeist gallego sobre el ejemplo de la narrativa de Manuel Rivas

The aim of the paper is to present a different kinds of humour in Galician literaturewhich is considered one of distinctive and fundamental characteristics of Galicianspirituality, also called a Volksgeist if we quote Alfonso Castelao’s dichotomy betweena Spanish and Galician Volksgeist. According to him a humorous attitude towards lifeand its adversity that have Galician is due to a misery that they suffered from duringfour centuries and they treat it as a powerful tool to conjure a fact of life. The analysis isprovided both with theory dedicated to a typology of humour and with some examplesof humorous perspective found in the novels and short story books of Manuel Rivas,one of the contemporary and the best-known Galician writer who makes use of irony,parody, sarcastic, situational or retranca’s humour

Encrucijadas culturales y linguisticas en la creacion del espanol cientifico-tecnico

The aim of the study is to present a diachronic analysis of a process of word formation in scientific and technical Spanish that is a result of many cross-cultural and linguistic influences proceeded from different linguistic communities (Iberian, Jewish, Andalusian Moors) and from the heritage of Ancient Greek and Roman. The former one is especially present in a great number of medical terms while the second one, both with English, is noticed in technical disciplines (construction, metallurgy, textile industry). Moreover, other European languages like French and Italian had an influence on the development of scientific and technical Spanish vocabulary. We also consider the main role of English, as lingua franca, in present day scientific communication, because so called anglicisms are commonly used in technical and scientific Spanish

An eighth grade curriculum incorporating logical thinking and active learning

With the increasing stress on teachers and students to meet and raise mathematics standards in schools, especially in the secondary level, the need for strong curricula and supporting materials for teachers has grown. A good curriculum, however, must do more than align with state standards and teach to the state exams; it must encourage students to enjoy mathematics. In an effort to help ease the plague of math anxiety, this thesis presents an eighth grade curriculum, called MathTAKStic, not only directly aligning with the Texas state standards, the Texas Essential Knowledge Skills (TEKS), but also encouraging students to pursue higher level thinking through active learning and logical thinking. To test the curriculum and find out its usefulness, several lessons were taught at a middle school. Although the scores of those learning with the curriculum were not always better than others, MathTAKStic led to a greater increase in studentsâ performance compared to those who were not exposed to the lessons, an increased interest in math and a plethora of ideas for the future. These results were concluded based on a comparison of studentsâ scores from the previous year to the current year on the Texas standardized test. Overall, the increase in passing scores of MathTAKStic students preceded other classes in the same school

Un incendio invisible de Sara Mesa como una crítica implícita al «Homo consumericus»

The paper is an attempt at shedding light on the issues related to the dystopian vision of postmodern society metonymically represented by Vado, an imaginary city, in the novel Un incendio invisible written by Sara Mesa. This abandoned urban space causes us to reflect on crucial topics in postmodern society, such as incorporation into unknown place, redefinition of the concept of parenthood, liquid and perverse love, social inequalities, abandoned elders, consumption, role of shopping malls and their significance, human alienation, all phenomena that we find in the novel. The city of Vado plays symbolic role in that piece, hence its devastation and ruin show a close connection with the consumer society and the actions of Homo consumericus. We base our analysis on the philosophical and sociological postulates of Gilles Lipovetsky, Zygmunt Bauman, Erich Fromm and anthropological one of Marc Augé, as well as on the proposal of how to read a novel by Javier del Prado Biezma in order to describe the nature of all these mentioned problems and expose the criticism of Homo consumericus concealed in the novel