Redefining Civilization: Historical Polarities and Mythologizing in Los Con Quistadores of Pablo Neruda\u27s Canto General

The article analyzes the book Canto General, by Pablo Neruda. Pablo Neruda\u27s poetic history of Latin America, Canto General (1950), is perhaps best known for its lyricized defense of oppressed and subjugated peoples throughout Latin America, as the author had perceived them. This collection, organized into fifteen sections (often, though not always, linear in its chronicling of Latin American history), treats this social theme from Pre-Columbian times through the mid-Twentieth Century. In addition, the collection is clearly infused with a profoundly Marxist ideology, as well as a call to arms against powers which Neruda had perceived as aggressors, namely the United States and a number of its corporate interests abroad

To Judge Through Verse: The Sonnets of Lope De Vega\u27s La Circe and His Engagement with Literature

Examines the literary style of Lope de Vega based on the collection of poetry \u27La Circe.\u27 Linguistic and intellectual qualities of poetry; Artistic portrayal of female beauty; Concern on ethical literary behavior

Pablo Neruda and the Construction of Past and Future Utopias in the Canto General

Presents information on the poetry collection \u27Canto General,\u27 by Pablo Neruda. Elements of \u27Canto General\u27; Significance of the first poem of the collection \u27Amor Am é rica\u27; Description of the construction of a future utopia; Basic principles of Neruda for human interaction, government and self-fulfillment

De/Reconstructing Appearances: Lope de Vega\u27s Inversion of Female Beauty in the Rimas Humanas y Divinas Del Licenciado Tome de Burguillos

This article illustrates how Lope de Vega, in his Rimas Humanas y Divinas Del Licenciado Tome de Burguillos, subverts idealized female beauty through the glorification of a more commonplace feminine object, while the time-honored poetic conventions which favored the former are deconstructed and replaced by a new anti-norm of female objectification

Emotion, Satire, and a Sense of Place: Two Spanish Rivers in Lope de Vega’s Sonnets

The article presents a critique of sonnets that appear in the books Rimas humanas (1602), Rimas humanas y divinas del licenciado Tomé de Burguillos (1634), by Lope de Vega (1562-1635), particularly focusing on the Spanish rivers Betis, or Guadalquivir River, and the Manzanares River, which appear in the poems. Emphasis is given to the emotional significance of the rivers in the poems, Lope\u27s move from Baroque literary conventions to the Petrarchan mode, and the figure Lucinda, who represents Micaela de Luján, one of Lope\u27s lovers

Cervantes and the Reinvention of the Picaresque Narrative in the Novelas Ejemplares

This article presents an analysis of a number of stories in Miguel de Cervantes\u27 Novelas Ejemplares, illustrating how he experimented with and altered the picaresque narrative by openly incorporating many elements of the genre into this work. This article shows how Cervantes is not a purely canonical picaresque author, but rather a quasi- or semi-picaresque writer, inventing what might be called Cervantine picaresque literature

Paradigms of National Identity in Francisco de Quevedo\u27s Poetry: Los(des) Engaños de la Grandeza

The purpose of this study is to examine the ways in which Quevedo explores Spanish national identity and to arrive at a conclusion as to what he had considered paradigmatic about being Spanish

Constructing Authority in Lope De Vega\u27s Egloga a Claudio: Self-Referentiality, Literary Judgment, and Ethics

The poetry of Lope de Vega has most often been analyzed for its treatment of themes such as love, religious devotion, or autobiographical introspection. However, one other key aspect of his poetry, especially of his longer poetical works (such as his epistolas and eglogas), is the engagement of literature and ethical concerns often related to the art of writing poetry. The purpose of this study is to examine one such work, the Egloga a Claudio (1631), a lengthy poem which normally should be classified as an epistola, for its role as l literary vehicle for passing judgment on different issues

The Living World, Politics, and Nation: Nature and Discourse in the Poetry of Nicolás Guillén

Through an analysis of key examples of Guillén\u27s use of nature throughout his poetry, this article presents the argument that they all are fundamentally rooted in a configuration of nature as a living being and in an understanding of humanity\u27s place as part of nature. For Guillén, nature is not simply something that he merely appreciates as a theme; rather, it is a vital element central to his view of the worid and to his development as a writer. The collections examined here are West Indies, Ltd., El son entero, and La paloma de vuelo popula

Assessment of different urban traffic control strategy impacts on vehicle emissions

This paper investigates the influence of traffic signal control strategy on vehicle emissions, vehicle journey time and total throughput flow within a single isolated four-armed junction. Two pre-timed signal plans are considered, one with two-stages involving permissive-only opposing turns and the other with four-stages which has no conflicting traffic. Additionally, the increase in efficiency by utilising actuated signal timing where green time is re-optimised as flow values vary is investigated. A microscopic traffic simulation model is used to model flows and AIRE (Analysis of Instantaneous Road Emissions) microscopic emissions model is utilised to out- put emission levels from the flow data. A simple junction model shows that the two-stage signal plan is more efficient in both emis- sions and journey time. However, as the level of opposed turning vehicles and conflicting movement increases, the two-stage model moves to being the inferior signal plan choice and the four-stage plan outputs fewer emissions than the two-stage plan. A real-world example of a four-armed junction has been used in this study and from the traffic survey data and existing junction layout; it is rec- ommended that a two-stage plan is used as it produces lower amounts of emissions and shorter journey times compared to a four-stage plan. The results also show that nitrogen oxides (NOx) are the most sensitive to changes in flow followed by carbon dioxide (CO2), Black Carbon and then particulate matter (PM10)