Two Tangos: Slawomir Mrözek and Manuel Molins’

This study addresses two plays, both entitled Tango, one by Manuel Molins i Casaña, and the other by Slawomir Mrözek, that is, two interpretations of the tango from outside the cultural environment in which it was invented.2 I shall analyse the extent to which the use of the tango as a musical form and point of reference (be it as a song or a dance) can be perceived as an exotic and external factor (a presence of the familiar other) in the form of hybrid texts including lyrics, for instance, and how in other cases it is unquestionably accepted as an integral part of European culture

La recepció de Joan Maragall en el món anglosaxó

Cet article propose un panorama de la diffusion de l’oeuvre de Joan Maragall dans les Iles Britanniques et aux Etats Unis. On évoque un grand nombre de publications de ses poèmes et d’autres écrits en catalan et en anglais ainsi que des ouvrages de critique littéraire depuis le début du XXe jusqu’au début du XXIe siècle, et on aborde plus spécifiquement la critique des professeurs Arthur Terry et Geoffrey Ribbans ainsi que les techniques du «New Criticism»

Capturing the Moment. Identity and the Political in Narcís Comadira’s Poems

Narcís Comadira (Girona 1942 – ) started his studies in the monastery of Montserrat in the sixties but abandoned his religious career and became one of the youngest Catalans to join the then newly born Assemblea de Catalunya the activities of which extended over the period 1971-1977, escaping the claustrophobia of Franco’s Spain by going abroad as a Spanish Lector at Queen Mary’s College in London between 1971 and 1973, and thus discovering new ways of thinking and living. This paper explores Comadira’s personal, political and poetic development from 1970 to the years of the Spanish transition to Democracy

Intimacy, Extimacy and Subjectivation in Living l’Havana, by Ferran Torrent

Living l’Havana (1999) is one of Ferran Torrent’s lesser-known works. In terms of its genre, the length of the narrative makes it into a short novel or a very long short story; its style is descriptive and conversational, and its location is mainly limited to the seats of an intercontinental flight from Valencia to Havana, with a short final section in the city of Havana itself. For these reasons, the book has been variously labelled as “un libro inusual en su trayectoria” (Obiols, 1999) and “un ensayo” (Casa del Libro,,1999b). It has also been classified as an example of travel literature and, whithin that category, as “un manual habanero para 'el turista que lleva dólares'” (Obiols, 1999). Its use of frank and colourful language and its exposure of intimate feelings and details with no apparent filters links it to the anti-literary, anti-normative and anti-rhetorical style of Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s 1967 ground-breaking novel Tres tristes tigres (1964) — a work about three men who spend the night exploring what Havana has to offer

Authentic by Choice, or by Chance? A Discussion of The Gods of Tango, by Carolina de Robertis

This novel follows the development of tango music in Buenos Aires and Montevideo from 1913 onwards through the challenges and soul searching situations encountered by the protagonist, Leda, a young Italian widow who starts her career as a tango violinist posing as a man: Dante. The story includes Leda’s growing success as a Tanguero; her unmasking and persecution as a fraud; her process of self - discovery as a wo/man; and her meeting the love of her life, the Uruguayan tango singer Rosa Vidal, whom she marri es and with whom she lives happily for 51 years, playing, singing, composing, and dancing the tango doing intercambio. My talk will be framed by definitions of ‘Authenticity’ in connection with the self, tango in general, and queer tango in particular, and will be developed by establishing links between Herminia Ibarra’s, 'Authenticity Paradox' and the novel. This theory, usually applied to women who reach positions of leadership in business or politics, will be used to show how the adoption of certain gendered attributes (stereotypical male/female behaviours) can become problematic for women in leading positions and what strategies are needed in order to facilitate the delivery of an authentic performance (assuming that such a thing exists). "If the tango itself could dance with me, would it lead or follow?“ (Catolina De Robertis 207

Famílies botàniques de plantes medicinals

Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona. Ensenyament: Grau de Farmàcia, Assignatura: Botànica Farmacèutica, Curs: 2013-2014, Coordinadors: Joan Simon, Cèsar Blanché i Maria Bosch.Els materials que aquí es presenten són els recull de 175 treballs d’una família botànica d’interès medicinal realitzats de manera individual. Els treballs han estat realitzat per la totalitat dels estudiants dels grups M-2 i M-3 de l’assignatura Botànica Farmacèutica durant els mesos d’abril i maig del curs 2013-14. Tots els treballs s’han dut a terme a través de la plataforma de GoogleDocs i han estat tutoritzats pel professor de l’assignatura i revisats i finalment co-avaluats entre els propis estudiants. L’objectiu principal de l’activitat ha estat fomentar l’aprenentatge autònom i col·laboratiu en Botànica farmacèutica